Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Mining & the mines, all years

Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1944

4,597 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 230

Evatt Calls Miners' Leaders to Canberra Meeting Of War Cabinet Today

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 1

WITH the South Coast coal strike in its 16th day, War Cabinet is meeting in Canberra today to consider yesterday's rejection by the miners of their leaders' call to resume work…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Evatt Calls Miners' Leaders to Canberra Meeting Of War Cabinet Today

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 1

WITH the South Coast coal strike in its 16th day, War Cabinet is meeting in Canberra today to consider .yesterday's rejection by the miners of their leaders' call to resume work…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Senate's Black Friday Absenteeism Versus Democracy Coal and Its Consequences

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 4

Doings in and around the Senate last Friday starkly horrified observers who have a genuine veneration for the institution of Parliament—a veneration that cannot co-exist with respect for those individual Parliamentarians whose…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Miners' Leaders to Meet Talks Tomorrow On New Strike Decision In South

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 5

The Miners' Federation Central Council will meet tomorrow to consider the decision of South Coast miners to continue their coal strike…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Evatt Summons Leaders of Miners to Canberra P.M's Attack On Strikers

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 3

THE Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt) has summoned the three leading officials of the Central Council of the Miners' Federation to Canberra…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Evatt Summons Leaders of Miners to Canberra P.M's Attack On Strikers

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 3

THE Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt) has summoned the three leading officials of the .Central Council of the Miners' Federation to Canberra…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Evatt Summons Leaders of Miners to Canberra P.M's Attack On Strikers

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 3

THE Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt) has summoned the three leading officials of the Central Council of the Miners' Federation to Canberra…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Evatt Summons Leaders of Miners to Canberra P.M's Attack On Strikers

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 3

THE Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt) has summoned the three leading officials of the Central Council of the Miners' Federation to Canberra…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Sydney morning Herald. Monday, March 6, 1944 the Government and the Miners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 4

Coalminers on the South Coast, having disregarded the Coal Commissioner's direction to end their strike, have now…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Miners to Continue Strike Decision Likely To Cause Hold-up Of War Industries

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 1

Disorganisation of war industries is threatened by a decision of the southern district miners yesterday to continue their strike…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

South Coast Miners Continue Strike Vote of 830 to 476 Against Return to Work

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 4

By 830 votes to 476—a majority of 354—South Coast miners yesterday rejected instructions from the central council of the Miners' Federation to end to-day the strike which has thrown the southern field idle…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

No Concessions to Miners "Anarchy Must End" Serious Shortage of Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 5

Statements by the Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, and the Attorney-General, Dr. Evatt, in Canberra yesterday, indicated the Government's determination to make no concessions to the striking miners on the…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Idle South Coast Colliery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 7

The scene at the pit top at an idle South Coast colliery yesterday. Empty skips are shown on the right, while on the left is the line of skips containing coal taken from the mine a few minutes before the strike began. Each skip contains a ton of…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Drastic Threat to British Miners

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.--Some British miners have been told by the Regional Fuel Controller that unless the mines return to normal working they…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

EDITORIAL Miners Versus The Nation

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 1

"WORK or fight," the Prime Minister told the nation some time ago. He was speaking to all…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Domestic Coal, Coke Ban Likely

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 3

ON present indications, the majority of Sydney people will have to use their imagination if they want to keep warm during the long winter…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Baddeley In Dark On Coal

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 1

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) said in reply to a question in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon that he…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Domestic Coal, Coke Ban Likely

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 4

ON present indications, the majority of Sydney people will have to use their imagination if they want to keep warm during the long winter…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Baddeley In Dark On Coal

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 1

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) said in reply to a question in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon that he…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →