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Mining & the mines, 1943

3,898 stories in Sydney's papers · page 70 of 195

Gold Bullion Art Union

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 3

THE Gold Bullion Art Union in aid of the Australian Comforts Fund will be drawn in the vestibule of the Town Hall by the Lord Mayor…

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Gold Bullion Art Union

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 3

THE Gold Bullion Art Union in aid of the Australian Comforts Fund will be drawn in the vestibule of the Town Hall by the Lord Mayor…

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U.s. Coal Strike Partly Settled

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 5

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--Illinois miners and coalowners have come to a settlement over the pay rise, demand for which was the basis of the national strike. The end of the trouble in this great bituminous coal area may herald a…

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U.s. Coal Strike Partly Settled

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 5

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--Illinois miners and coalowners have come to a settlement over the pay rise, demand for which was the basis of the national strike. The end of the trouble in this great bituminous coal strike may herald a…

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U.s. Coal Strike Partly Settled

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 5

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--Illinois miners and coalowners have come to a settlement over the pay rise, demand for which was the basis of the national strike. The end of the trouble in this great bituminous coal area may herald a…

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Still Hope for Miners Trapped by Flood

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday.--There is still hope for three men who have been trapped in a Lanarkshire (Scotland) mine by an inrush of water…

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Britain to Spend £1M on Coal Research

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 8

Recent revelations of the growing consumption and declining stocks of coal in the Commonwealth have raised the question as to the possibilities of improving…

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Finance Britain to Spend £1M on Coal Research

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 8

Recent revelations of the growing consumption and declining stocks of coal in the Commonwealth have raised the question as to the possibilities of improving…

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U.S. Mine Wage Dispute Nation's Huge Coal Losses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 8

NEW YORK, June 8 (A.A.P.). —Most of the nation's half-million soft coal mihers returned to the pits yesterday, beginning a…

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French Wreck Bauxite Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--A German bauxite mine has been so badly damaged by French saboteurs that it will be out of…

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Mine Strike Over Butter

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 5

Hebburn No.1 miners went on strike yesterday in protest against butter rationing…

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Stop Press Miners' Threat

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 12

Queensland miners' secretary (Mr. J. Donald) has warned the general secretary of the miners' Federation (Mr. Grant) that northern…

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Denies Council Wasting Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 8

The general manager of the County Council (Mr. R. Vine-Hall) last night denied that the Electricity Undertaking was wasting between 120 and 150…

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Mew Mine Strike ON Butter

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 3

A fresh strike occurred today because of butter rationing. After a pit-top meeting, 320 miners at…

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New Mine Strike On Butter

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 2

A fresh strike occurred today because of butter rationing. After a pit-top meeting, 320 miners at…

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Leader Of U.S. Miners

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 3

PRESIDENT of the U.S. United Mine Workers' Union, Mr. John L. Lewis is shown as he announced over the radio: "It is…

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Big Coal Loss Through Strike

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).--Last week's strike by U.S. coalminers resulted in the loss of 11,000,000 tons of coal, the…

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Butter Before Coal: Strikes, Protests

The Sun · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 3

Butter rationing has led to a stoppage at a second coal mine in NSW and to strike threats at Queensland mines, and railwaymen also are arranging a protest. Tho Miners' Federa--…

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320 Miners Idle As Butter Ration Protest

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 4

A fresh strike occurred today because of butter rationing. After a pit-top meeting, 320 miners at Excelsior colliery went home as a protest against the allowance of a half-pound per week…

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320 Miners Idle As Butter Ration Protest

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 4

A fresh strike occurred today because of butter rationing. After a pit-top meeting, 320 miners at Excelsior colliery went home as a protest against the allowance of a half-pound per week…

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