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Mining & the mines, 1940

3,508 stories in Sydney's papers · page 67 of 176

Cookie Didn't Have Cry Ajax Not Lucky to Down Gold Rod Says "The Champ"

Truth · Sunday 31 March 1940 · page 3

AJAX wound up his five-year-old activities by tacking the C. W. Cropper Plate on to his All-Aged Plate win. But it was one of the closest shaves the champion has ever had. Gold Rod ran him to a neck…

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"Ajax Was Never In Any Danger" -- H. Badger Loafed On Jockey Nearing Post Achieves Notable Hat-Trick: Gold Rod's Good Effort

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 31 March 1940 · page 22

Many punters thought that Ajax was "flat out" to beat Gold Rod by a neck in the C. W. Cropper Plate at Randwick yesterday, but H. Badger, Ajax's pilot, said that his mount was only loafing at the…

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Glamor Girl Of Australian Goldfields Questions Answered

The Sun · Sunday 31 March 1940 · page 15

OUTSTANDING among the glamor girls of the nineteenth century was the lovely, tempestuous Lola…

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Stand Behind Miners

Daily News · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 2

"THE miners are hard-working,. honest men, who have not had a fair deal. We'll fight for them…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 6

GREAT NORTHERN TINFIELDS.—West crosscut at 85ft level is in 12ft, and has passed through the shoot of tin located earlier in the short crosscut at 66ft. The shoot has been…

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Australian Gold Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 6

GOLD: Fine ounce, £10/13/3, unch.; standard ounce (22 carats), £9/15/5¾, unch. (Commonwealth Bank). SOVEREIGNS: £2/9/. unch…

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Threat Against Men at Colliery Wollongong

The Sun · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 5

Members of Corrimal miners lodge, at the week-end, threatened to "drum home" 30 deputies and shot-firers who were continuing at work…

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Refuse to Unload Coal

Daily News · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 2

DARWIN, Sunday.--Because the Darvin Industrial Board of Reference refused to grant railway workers on additional 4d per hour dirt money, the men…

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Rowdy Miners' Meeting KALGOORLIE

Daily News · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 2

Amid uproar, alleged Communist members of the Australian Workers' Union were attacked at a meeting to-day of…

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'Court Is There' Hughes To Miners

The Sun · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 5

"The business of the miners is to approach the Arbitration Court. If and when they do this, they will…

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Mining. Copper Shares Rise

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 6

Copper shares hardened on restricted trading on Saturday. Oil shares claimed fair attention. Gold and tin concerns were dull…

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Strike Pay for Western Miners Lithgow

The Sun · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 5

Western miners will receive their first strike pay this week. The sum of £2500 will be distributed among 1600 miners…

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Locomotive Men Will Haul Coal Muswellbrook

The Sun · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 5

A largely attended meeting of members of the Muswellbrook branch of the Railway Locomotive and Enginemen's Union yesterday decided…

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Students Sent To Salt Mines LONDON, March 20

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 4

Czech students who cannot attend the universities because the Nazis have closed them are now being medically examined…

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Rothbury Miners Will Cease Work Men to Join Up with Union

Daily News · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 2

MINERS on the Rothbury Estate yesterday decided to join the Miners' Federation and to cease work…

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Miners Want Judge Back Demand Recall From Army of Drake-brockman

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 7

The striking coal miners want Judge Drake-Brockman recalled to the Arbitration Court from military duties to hear their case. The organiser of the Federated Enginedrivers and…

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Ajax's Win. Third Cropper Plate. Gold Rod's Late Run

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 13

In Melbourne this autumn, Ajax won his third successive Futurity Stakes, and on Saturday at Randwick he won his third successive C…

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Wagga Gold Cup Weights. (To be run on April 10.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 13

Royal Jubliee, 9-2: Breeze, 8-13: Mitsui, 8-10: Mackintosh, 8-9: Cigarette, 8-4: Sir Regent, 8-3: Finch, 7-13: Light Dragoon, 7-13: Beau Ercil, 7-13: Farr Son, 7-10: Alice Springs, 7-9: Vice Royal, 7-9:…

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Women's News London's Week Rationing Of Coal Interferes With Art LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 9

Portrait painting is enjoying a terrific vogue, and members of the three services are having themselves "done in…

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Coal Strike. Some Rothbury Men to Cease Work. Closing of Steelworks. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 9

Some of the workers at the mines on the Rothbury Estate, who are not members of the Miners', Federation, decided at a meeting to-day to throw in their…

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