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Mining & the mines, 1947

4,492 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 225

Coal Cuts in Britain Luxury Plants Hit Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 5 (A.A.P.).— Because of increasingly serious coal shortages, the British, Government will cut supplies to gas and…

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Coal Mines Resume Most Men At Work

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 3

N.S.W. coalminers returned to work after their Christmas holidays yesterday. There were strikes at three…

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Four Mines Idle

The Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 9

Four thousand tons of coal were lost today by stoppages at four mines, three in the north and one in the south. All…

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Southern Mine's Sale Proposed

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 16

Shareholders of Illawarra Coke Co., Ltd., will consider on Friday next a resolution sanctioning the disposal of the company's colliery at Mt. Kembla…

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Sale of Mine Proposed Illawarra Coke

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 6

Shareholders in Illawarra Coke Co. Ltd. will be asked, at an extraordinary meeting on Friday, to sanction the disposal of the…

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Mine-Clearing Is Victory For Labor

Tribune · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 3

TOWNSVILLE. - The Navy Department’s decision to start work at once clearing floating mines represents a notable victory by North…

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Miners' Chief Given Right to Nominate

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 3

Mr. H. Wells, prominent member of the Communist Party, has been voted the right to nominate for election for…

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Miners' Chief Given Right to Nominate

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 12

Mr. H. Wells, prominent member of the Communist Party, has been voted the right to nominate for election for…

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Miners' Chief Given Right to Nominate

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 12

Mr. H. Wells, prominent member of the Communist Party, has been voted the right to nominate for election for…

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Miners' Chief Given Right to Nominate

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 12

Mr. H. Wells, prominent member of the Communist Party, has been voted, the right to nominate for election for…

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Miners' Chief Given Right to Nominate

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 3

Mr. H. Wells, prominent member of the Communist Party, has been voted the right to nominate for election for…

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Miners' Chief Given Right to Nominate

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 12

Mr. H. Wells, prominent member of the Communis Party, has been voted the right to nominate for election for…

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Miners' Chief Given Right to Nominate

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 12

Mr. H. Wells, prominent member of the Communist Party, has been voted the right to nominate for election for…

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Miners' Chief Given Right to Nominate

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 12

Mr. H. Wells, prominent member of the Communist Party, . has been voted the right to nominate for election for…

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Death of Noted Mining Expert

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 6

KALGOORLIE, Tuesday. -- Dr. Bertie Harcourt Moore (66), former director of the School of Mines, Kalgoorlie, died yesterday…

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Death of Noted Mining Expert

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 6

KALGOORLIE, Tuesday. -- Dr. Bertie Harcourt Moore (66), former director of the School of Mines, Kalgoorlie, died yesterday…

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Death of Noted Mining Expert

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 6

KALGOORLIE, Tuesday. -- Dr. Bertie Harcourt Moore (66), former director of the School of Mines, Kalgoorlie, died yesterday…

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Miners' Union President Mr. Wells Given Right To Stand

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 3

By 3,277 votes to 2,861, the president of the Miners' Federation, Mr. H. Wells, has won the right to nominate for the…

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Coal Miners' Leader To Resign

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1947 · page 5

General president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Harold Wells) yesterday decided to resign from the…

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Britain's Coal Mines Nationalised 1700 Mines to Cost £165 Millions "One of the Greatest Days in History"

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 January 1947 · page 8

The United Kingdom's 1700 coal mines passed out of the hands of private owners last Wednesday (January 1) at a cost to the nation of £165 million. A formal ceremony to mark the…

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