Coal Position in N.s.w. Goes From Bad to Worse
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 2
THE coal position goes from bad to worse. The most serious stoppage since Japan entered the war has occurred on the South Coast coalfield where 10 mines are idle and 10,000 tons of coal a day are being lost. The men refuse to work in defiance of an instruction by their officials…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Position in N.s.w. Goes From Bad to Worse
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 2
THE coal position goes from bad to worse. The most serious stoppage since Japan entered the war has occurred on the South Coast coalfield where 10 mines are idle and 10,000 tons of coal a day are being lost. The men refuse to work in defiance of an instruction by their officials…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Position in N.s.w. Goes From Bad to Worse
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 2
THE coal position goes from bad to worse. The most serious stoppage since Japan entered the war has occurred on the South Coast coalfield where 10 mines are idle and 10,000 tons of coal a day are being lost. The men refuse to work in defiance of an instruction by their officials…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Position in N.s.w Goes From Bad to Worse
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 2
THE coal position goes from bod to worse. The most serious stoppage since Japan entered the war has occurred on the South Coast coalfield where 10 mines are idle and 10,000 tons of coal a day are being lost. The men refuse to work- in defiance of an instruction by their officials…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blazing Coal Deposit May Disrupt Vic. Industry Grim Battle To Save Yallourn
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Victoria faces calamity if the fires still blazing furiously in the Yallourn brown-coal open cut are not quickly subdued…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blazing Coal Deposit May Disrupt Vic. Industry Grim Battle To Save Yalloum
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Victoria faces calamity if the fires still blazing furiously in the Yalloum brown-coal open cut are not quickly subdued…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blazing Coal Deposit May Disrupt Vic. Industry Grim Battle To Save Yallourn
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Victories faces calamity if the fires still blazing furiously in the Yallourn brown-coal open cut are not quickly subdued…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →13 Bushfire Deaths in Victoria Brown Coal Mine Still Blazing Drastic Electricity Cuts
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 February 1944 · page 7
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The death-roll in the latest bushfire outbreaks in Victoria now totals at least 13. More than 100 people have either been treated or admitted to hospital. More than 100 homes have been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →5,000 Miners Idle
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 February 1944 · page 6
For the second day, every mine on the South Coast was idle yesterday in sympathy with the Coalcliff miners, who are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A1 Consolidated Gold
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 February 1944 · page 5
Because of a plant breakdown A1 Consolidated Gold, N. L. experts that production will be interrupted for a week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Mechanisation "Favored by Curtin"
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 February 1944 · page 4
CANBERRA, Tuesday.--The secretary of Northern Collieries, Ltd. (Mr. Gregory Forster), alleged tonight that the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) favored mechanisation of coalmines…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Vital Powers for Coal Controller
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 February 1944 · page 3
The draft Coal Bill, approved, with minor amendments, by Full Cabinet in Canberra, last night, places vast powers in the hands of a Commonwealth Coal Controller…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Key Men Refuse to Enter Mine
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 February 1944 · page 6
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—After a majority of employees had decided at a pit-top meeting to work, Hebburn No. 1 colliery was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →House Attack on Govt. Coal Policy
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 February 1944 · page 2
CANBERRA, Wednesday. -- An attack on the Government over the position of the coal industry was made by Opposition members in the House of Representatives this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attack on Fed. Govt. Over Coal
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 February 1944 · page 2
The Curtin Government had thrown in the towel to irresponsibles in the coal - mining industry, and it now faced an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →House Attack on Govt. Coal Policy
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 February 1944 · page 2
CANBERRA, Wednesday. -- An attack on the Government over the position of the coal industry was made by Opposition members in the House of Representatives this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attack on Fed. Govt. Over Coal
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 February 1944 · page 2
The Curtin Government had thrown in the towel to irresponsibles in the coal - mining industry, and it now faced an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Miners Just Won't Work" Says Curtin
The Sun · Wednesday 16 February 1944 · page 3
Two comments today on the South Coast coal strike, which already has cost the country 30,000 tons, were:--…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Coal Blaze: Factories Held Up
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 February 1944 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. --Paralysis of most Victorian industries is threatened by a fire in Yallourn…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stop Press Miners' Telegram to P.m
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 February 1944 · page 12
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.-- Northern Miners' board of management today sent a telegram to the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin)…
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