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Mining & the mines, 1947

4,492 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 225

German Gold Holdings Russian Demand

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 3

LONDON, March 31 (A.A.P.). —Russia wants to know how much German gold is held in neutral countries…

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12,300 Tons of Coal Lost

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 5

All southern mines are idle today while deputies and shot-firers, key men without whom miners cannot work, are…

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12,300 Tons of Coal Lost

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 5

All southern mines are idle today while deputies and shotfirers, key men without whom miners cannot work, are…

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12,300 Tons of Coal Lost

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 5

All southern mines are idle today while deputies and shotfirers, key men without whom miners cannot work, are…

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12,300 Tons of Coal Lost

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 5

All southern mines are idle today while deputies and shotfirers, key men without whom miners cannot work, are…

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12,300 Tons of Coal Lost

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 5

All southern mines are idle today while deputies and shotfirers, key men without whom miners cannot work, are…

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Full Reserve Major Target Plan To Assist Industries Collieries Need Many More Men

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 19

LONDON, Tuesday. -- British Government plans to put industry on a firm footing during the coming months are now rapidly taking shape…

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U.s. Miners Stop Work As Disaster Protest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--Thousands of American coal miners are due to stop work for the rest of the week. They are acting under instructions…

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Great Double Win for Communists Miners Answer Redbaiters

Tribune · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 1

Communists, in an historic double victory, won the Presidency of the Miners’ Federation and the North lllawarra Council vacancy for Bulli miners’ and steelworkers’ area. Election of Mr. Idris Williams and Mr. Ted Arrowsmith, both well known…

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U.S. Miners' Stoppage Lewis's Original Date Chosen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, Mar. 31 (A.A.P.). —The six-day coal stoppage called by Mr. John L. Lewis as a mourning period for the 111 miners killed…

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No Plan To Stop U.S. Coal Tie-Up

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 4

NEW YORK, Monday (A.A.P.). -- The U.S. Government had no plans to prevent the six-day nation-wide stoppage in the…

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Swindlers "Take In" Soviet Fake Gold Bars Sold in Berlin

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 23

LONDON, Tuesday.--A wave of arrests by the Russian secret police in the Berlin underworld marks the discovery of an enormous swindle petpetrated on the Soviet Union by…

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Huge Rise in Value of Mines Increase Must Be Proved Bernales Case Decision Given

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 8

LONDON, Tuesday.--Unless Claude Albo de Bernales can prove that the value of certain gold mines increased when their ownership was transferred, he must pay British income tax on…

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Coal Strike Settlement

The Sun · Wednesday 2 April 1947 · page 3

All South Coast mines Willi resume work tomorrow. A settlement was reached at Wollongong today at a…

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£208,934 Loss on Mt. Kembla Colliery Sale

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 April 1947 · page 22

Mt. Kembla Collieries Ltd. lost £208,934 on the sale of its undertaking to Australian Iron and Steel for £150,000…

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Britain To Import Winter Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 April 1947 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.). -- The British Government has decided to import coal to help…

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S.a. Coal Stocks Low

The Sun · Wednesday 2 April 1947 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wednesday-- Rationed gas and electricity for domestic users and restricted rail and tram services seem certain to be forced upon South…

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Sesame Gold to Obtain Loan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 April 1947 · page 6

Expenditure of £6,292 on the Florence mine at Daylesford, Vic., had absorbed the liquid resources of Sesame Gold N.L., said the chairman,…

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Britain to Buy Coal Import Plan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 April 1947 · page 3

LONDON, April 1 (A.A.P.).— The Brtish Government has decided to import coal, according to the "Daily Express."…

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U.S. Miners Moving For Pit Safety

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 April 1947 · page 7

DILLONVALE (Ohio), Wednesday.--Miners in Ohio, West Virginia and Illinois have been ordered to remain out of mines they considered unsafe, following the disaster at Centralia last…

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