Rain Stops Work at Five Northern Coal Mines
AH southern mines are working today. Two open cuts are idle because of rain and five mines because of stoppages in the north…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Mining & the mines, 1947
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Rain Stops Work at Five Northern Coal Mines
All southern mines are working today. Two open cuts are idle because of rain and five mines because of Stoppages in the north…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Mine Production Reduced
In some areas coal production has not declined seriously as a result of the weather. Overall production, however, was 3,520,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Get Damages
IPSWICH. Thursday.--Damages of £25 each with costs, were awarded to three Ploughrigg coal miners by Mr. A. Taylor, SM, in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Delayed by Weather
Half a million tons of coal are held up in frost-paralysed railway yards in the north. In the Tyne about 100 colliers are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →US Could Ship Coal
NEW YORK, Wednesday.--US would consider sympathetically any appeal for diversion of coal to Britain,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stop-press Coal for London
London.--Ten coal ships arrived in Thames with supplies for London power stations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Losses Heavy Unrest On Fields
Coal losses this year have averaged 11,500 tons a week more than for the corresponding period last year, the secretary of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Southern Miners Plan Rally At Parliament House
WOLLONGONG, Wed.— Southern miners decided to-day to organise a mass demonstration outside Parliament House when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →England's Winter Crisis--2 Coal shake-up will save Britain from candlelight
LONDON, Wednesday.--The most important factor in Britain's coal shortage is the lack of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Coal Losses Rise by 41 Per Cent Weekly Shortage Now 38,000 Tons
New South Wales coal production losses for the first five weeks of this year were 41 per cent. higher than for a similar period in 1946, Mr. R. W. Davie said Yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Attlee Orders 'War Measures' to End Coal Jam Fines up to £500, 2 years gaol for breaking fuel laws
LONDON, Thursday.--Sweeping new measures to conserve power and light have been ordered by a Special Emergency Committee set up by the Prime Minister. Warning that the situation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Aid Miners
A WOMEN’S Committee formed in Corrimal to assist the South Coast miners’ struggle against the dust menace and for better…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold Yields
Central Deborah, 235 tons; 107oz. Deborah, 330 tons; 86oz. Maude and Yellow Girl. 480 tons; 180oz. Paringa, 7912 tons; 1903oz. fine…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Big Coal Strike Looms
The State and Federal Governments have until February 28 to take action which will prevent a nation-wide coal strike. THAT is the date sat by the Central Council of the Miners’ Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Loan for Evanston Gold
The Western Australian Government has granted a loan of £25,000 to Evanston Gold, N.L., provided the new capital of £37,500 is raised by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Striking Silver Miners Attack AWU Leaders
STRIKING silver lead and iron pyrites miners from the captain’s Flat mine of the Lake George Mining Co. this week strongly criticised the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners’ Presidency Ballot on Feb. 25th
The special ballot for the position of General President of the Miners’ Federation will be held on February 25, the Federation’s Returning Officer, Mr. C. A. Willis, announced. IT will be a secret ballot conducted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Same Wages As in 1900 Mine Workers In South Africa
CAPETOWN, Feb. 13 (A.A.P.). —The wages of African mine workers had hardly changed since 1900, said Senator H. M. Basner,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Truman Will Ship Coal to Relieve British Fuel Crisis
LONDON, Friday.--President Truman has ordered a study of emergency measures which the US might be able to take to ease the British coal shortage. "The US Government stands…
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