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Mining & the mines, 1942

4,235 stories in Sydney's papers · page 62 of 212

Official Gold Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 April 1942 · page 3

SOVEREIGNS, April 12, £2/8/ (unch.). The price for gold lodged last Saturday and yesterday will be announced by the Common[?]ith Bank to-day…

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Conference On Coal Disputes

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 April 1942 · page 6

CANBERRA, Monday.--Conferences were held here today on the new regulation proposed by the Government-to control…

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Coal Unions' Last Bid To Avert Govt. Action

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 April 1942 · page 3

A last-minute attempt to prevent immediate introduction of National Security Regulations to deal with mining strikes is being made by officials of the Miners' Federation. The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) had announced that he expected…

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Coal Unions' Last Bid To Avert Govt. Action

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 April 1942 · page 3

A last-minute attempt to prevent immediate introduction of National Security Regulations to deal with mining strikes is being made by officials of the Miners' Federation. The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) had announced that he expected…

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Coal Union' Last Bid To Avert Govt. Action

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 April 1942 · page 3

A last-minute attempt to prevent immediate introduction of National Security Regulations to deal with mining strikes is being made by officials of the Miners' Federation. The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) had announced that he expected…

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Coal Unions' Last Bid To Avert Govt. Action

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 April 1942 · page 3

A last-minute attempt to prevent immediate introduction of National Security Regulations to deal with mining strikes is being made by officials of the Miners' Federation. The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) had announced that he expected…

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Curb On Strikers Force for Arms Men and Miners Canberra

The Sun · Tuesday 14 April 1942 · page 3

Strikers at an NSW arms factory, 400 in number, will be ordered back to work under Regulation 77, the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) announced…

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Letters the Coal Strikes To the Editor of the "Herald."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 April 1942 · page 3

Sir,—If one could listen in at a first lesson given by an experienced old striker to an initiate in the art I imagine that he would hear something…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, April 14, 1942. Coal Strikers v the Nation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 April 1942 · page 4

Throughout Australia there is a burning sense of anger over the continued betrayal of the interests of the country in its…

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Coal Mines and War

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 15 April 1942 · page 3

STRIKES are utterly deplorable just now, with the nation plunged in a crisis involving its very existence…

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Coal Mines May Have to Close

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 April 1942 · page 2

Eighteen western coal mines may have to cease production because of an acute shortage of miners' requirements, a Daily Telegraph special…

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Candles Now Used In Coal Mines

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 April 1942 · page 7

THE assistant-secretary of western miners (Mr. W. Gregory) said today that for the first time in the history of…

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Candles Now Used In Coal Mines

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 April 1942 · page 7

THE assistant-secretary of western miners (Mr. W. Gregory) said today that for the first time in the history of…

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Firm Cabinet Stand on Mines Problem Ministers Ready For Emergency 3 Collieries Idle Today

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 April 1942 · page 5

FULL Cabinet, which met in Canberra today, is prepared for the possibility that a section of N.S.W. coalminers will attempt to defy the new regulations…

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Drastic New Coal Powers Miners Must Work Munitions Strikers May Defy Ministry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 April 1942 · page 7

The Federal Government yesterday took drastic action to prevent further stoppages in coal mines and to end a serious strike in a New South Wales munitions factory…

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The Coal Strikes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 April 1942 · page 5

Sir,—As a member of the Miners' federation I must congratulate Mr. Ward for the timely suggestion to nationalise the coal mining industry…

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Miners Want New Conference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 April 1942 · page 7

Leaders of the miners expressed disappintment last night that the Federal Government had not consulted them…

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Two Mines Idle Today

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 April 1942 · page 2

About 280 miners at two mines on the western and northern coalfields are on strike today and are thus defying the…

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Govt. Tightens Mines Control

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 April 1942 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tuesday.--New regulations gazetted tonight make it illegal for coalminers to absent themselves from work without reasonable excuse…

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Coal Strikes in Britain

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 April 1942 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).--Coal strikes in the six months ended March 18 cost Britain 188,000 man-days and an estimated 179,000 tons of coal…

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