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Mining & the mines, 1942

4,235 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 212

Nationalisation of Mings Mr. Ward's Coal Plan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 April 1942 · page 5

The Minister for Labour, Mr. Ward, said yesterday he believed that the only method by which industrial disputes on…

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Sth. Coast Mines Resume, But Four Others Sole Strikers Criticised By Prime Minister; Firm Action Likely

The Sun · Thursday 9 April 1942 · page 3

Idle mines on the South Coast resumed work today, following yesterday's conference, but production is held up at four collieries in the North and West. "A coal miner who is not producing coal…

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New Coal Rules Challenge Of Miners Accepted

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.--With 900 miners still on strike in N.S.W., the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) and the…

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New Coal Rules Challenge Of Miners Accepted

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.--With 900 miners still on strike in N.S.W., the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) and the Acting-Attor…

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New Coal Rules Challenge Of Miners Accepted

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.--With 900 miners still on strike in N.S.W., the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) and the…

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New Coal Rules Challenge Of Miners Accepted

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.--With 900 miners still on strike in N.S.W., the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) and the Acting-Attor…

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Government and Miners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 3

Sir,—If the patience of the Government with the miners has not been exhausted, the patience of the people with the Government has reached a…

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Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 3

[?]URBIDGE.—March, treated 2,208 tons for [?]030z, estimated value £1,636. CULLENGORAL.—4 weeks ended April 2, recovered 990z smelted gold…

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Cullengoral Gold

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 8

FOR the four weeks ended April 2, the Cullengoral Alluvial Gold Sluicing N.L. recovered 99 ounces of smelted gold. The operation of moving the dredge across…

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Australia Must Have Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 4

WAR Cabinet has framed a new set of regulations to discipline striking coalminers…

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900 Miners Defy Fed Govt

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 2

About 900 miners at fou mines on the northern, western and southern coalfields are of strike today, defying the decided…

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Mr. Ward and the Miners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 4

The Federal Minister for Labour could not have chosen a more unsuitable occasion to advocate nationalisation of the…

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Nationalisation No Remedy Stoppages at State Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 6

Both the leader of the Federal Parliamentary U.A.P., Mr. Hughes, and the secretary of Northern Collieries, Ltd., Mr. H…

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Good Haul Of New Desert Gold

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 2

A LEADING Aircraftman of the R.A.A.F. carrying a load of precious tins--the metal "peelings" of canned…

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Good Haul Of New Desert Gold

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 2

A LEADING Aircraftman of the R.A.A.F. carrying a load of precious tins--the metal "peelings" of canned…

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New Coal Regulations Govt. Plan To End Stoppages

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 5

Special National Security Regulations will be introduced to prevent strikes in the coal industry. War Cabinet decided in Melbourne yesterday…

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5 Mines Idle; 20,000 Tons Lost In Week

The Sun · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 3

Industrial disputes have kept five mines in the north, south and west idle today. This means 1100 men idle, with 3000 tons of coal lost for the day--making the week's total…

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People Back Curtain In Mining Fight

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 2

PRIME MINISTER MR. CURTIN has told the striking coal miners unequivocably where he stands and where they stand as far as his Government is concerned. "WHILE men are dying and…

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People Back Curtin In Mining Fight

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 2

PRIME MINISTER MR. CURTIN has told the striking coal miners unequivocably where he stands and where they stand as far as his Government is concerned. "WHILE men are dying and…

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People Back Curtin In Mining Fight

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 2

PRIME MINISTER MR. CURTIN has fold the striking coal miners unequivocably where he stands and where they stand as far as his Government is concerned. "WHILE men are dying and…

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