Costume Co. Director Volunteers for Mine
LONDON, Tuesday.--John Geller, 18 years old managing, director of . a London costume business, whose salary is £1500 a year, is joining the…
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Rich Youth's £3 A Week Mine Job
LONDON, Monday.--John Geller, 18, of Brighton, England's boy company director, who receives £1500 a year, has Volunteered to work in a mine for £3 a week. Geller started work, at 15,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£1 Dispute Costs 2300 Tons of Coal
Friends of a clipper suspended from his lodge caused a stoppage of work of Richmond Main colliery (north) yesterday. The man was suspended…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letters Coal Strikes To the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Dr. Evatt's speech at Cessnock on Saturday last is to be commended from every point of view. It discloses a substantial arip of the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australian Flag Hoisted Over Coalcliff Pit-top All Northern Mines Working
Watched by a small group of Commonwealth Government and union officials, the Australian flag was hoisted to the poppet-head of Coalcliff Colliery early this morning. It marked the taking over by the Commonwealth Government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners to Resume Work Today Majority Of 106 In Favor; Only 1692 Voted
By a majority of 106 at aggregate meetings yesterday, striking miners on the South Coast decided to resume work today. There are 2800 miners on strike. Only 1692…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Coast Miners to Resume Men Vote To Work To-day Rowdy Meeting at Bulli From Our Special Reporter
WOLLONGONG, Monday.—By a majority of 105-898 votes to 793—South Coast coalminers to-day decided to resume work to-morrow. They have been on strike since February' 14, and production of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Compulsory Conferences in Coal Mine Disputes
WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.--The chairman of the Local Reference Board (Mr. F. Hickman) will preside at three compulsory conferences…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Compulsory Conferences in Coal Mine Disputes
WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.--The chairman of the Local Reference Board (Mr. F. Hickman) will preside at three compulsory conferences…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Compulsory Conferences in Coal Mine Disputes
WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.--The chairman of the Local Reference Board (Mr. F. Hickman) will preside at three compulsory conferences…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Colliery Under Government Control
Top: Coalcliff colliery, centre of the South Coast miners' strike, which resumed yesterday under Government control. Lower left: Officials watching the miners coming from the train to the colliery. From left: Messrs. R. James, M.P. (liaison officer between the Government and the miners), R. Jack (production manager for Coal Commissioner)…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gold Ore Reserves
Ore reserves of Wattle Gully Gold Mines, N.L., are estimated at 140,000 tons. During the past half-year 5046 tons were treated for 2U6oz. gold…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Many Welsh Miners Still Out
LONDON, March 14.— The Welsh coal situation is still serious. Although a majority of the miners voted to return to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Welsh Miners Going Back to Work
LONDON. March 14 (A. A. P.).—Another 30,000 of ths striking Welsh miners a[?] stated by a Miners' Federation official to have returned to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →65,000 Miners Back to Work
LONDON, Wednesday.--Sixtyfive thousand Welsh miners are back at work, or 72 per cent, of those involved in last week's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.s.w. Gold Output
Gold production in New South Wales in January was 5076 fine oz., valued at £53,046 It compares with 3179 fine oz., valued at £33,224, in January, 1943…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →South Coast Miners Go Back To Work
All South Coast mines except two, which had been on strike since February 14, resumed work yesterday. For the first time this year all northern pits were working…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Most Southern Mines Resume Work Australian Flag Flown Over Coalcliff
All mines except two on the South Coast resumed yesterday in accordance with the decision reached at meetings on Monday. At Mount Kembla and Corrimal the men went home because of a dispute about the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A.w.d. Application to Vary Coal Tar Constituents Award Intruding Organisation Again Rebuffed
Another attempt by Mr. F. Morgan, who at one time claimed to be local Secretary of the Victorian Chemical Workers' Union, to intrude into the field of the Australian Workers' Union in this…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Miners Have Lost Public Sympathy" Declares Dr. Evatt at Cessnock "Must Clear the Slate and Start Afresh."
There has not been one single industrial principle involved in all the miserable disputes, which in the last 12 months have lost this country more than 2,000,000 tons of coal, declared the…
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