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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1947

4,492 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 225

350,000 Ruhr Miners Idle Today Grim Turn In Strikes

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 April 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.--Widespread food strikes in Germany creating the most critical situation there since the Allied occupation…

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350,000 Ruhr Miners Idle Today Grim Turn In Strikes

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 April 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.--Widespread food strikes in Germany are creating the most critical situation since the Allied occupation began…

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Mob Violence in Germany Food Shortage Riots: Ruhr Miners Strike

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 April 1947 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday.--Demonstrations against the food shortage in the British occupation zone in Germany entered their eighth day today, when more than 50,000 Germans in…

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350.000 Ruhr Miners Idle Today Grim Turn In Strikes

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 April 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.--Widespread food strikes in Germany are creating the most critical situation since the Allied occupation began…

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350.000 Ruhr Miners Idle Today Grim Turn In Strikes

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 April 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.--Widespread food strikes in Germany are creating the most critical situation since the Allied occupation began…

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German Miners on Strike Ruhr Food Protest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 April 1947 · page 3

LONDON, April 3 (A.A.P.).—Nearly all the 350,000 coalminers of the Ruhr were on strike to-day in protest at short German food rations. The strike is nominally of 24 hours, but it is likely that…

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Miners’ New Leader Tells Of Urgent Tasks

Tribune · Friday 4 April 1947 · page 3

Ending the dust menace which yearly invalided hundreds of South Coast miners was the most urgent task facing…

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Bidault Presses for More Coal and Fewer Germans

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 4 April 1947 · page 1

From the begining of the Moscow Conference. Mr. Bidault made it clear that France was determined to see that Germany…

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Food Protest in Germany Miners' Wives Gate-Crash Strike Meeting

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 April 1947 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday.--Hundreds of miners' wives, shouting and pushing, yesterday gate-crashed a meeting at Bochum (western Germany) at which all coal miners in the Ruhr…

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Ex-miners And Dons For British Pits Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 April 1947 · page 3

LONDON, April 3.—Britain now has 14,000 more coalminers than she had on January 1, nearly half of the…

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Mt. Kembla Deficit On Colliery Sale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 April 1947 · page 4

A loss of £stg10,132 is shown in the liquidator's accounts of the Mount Kembla Collieries, Ltd., for the period from July 1, 1945, to…

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Ruhr Mine Strike Over

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 April 1947 · page 1

MUNICH, Saturday.--The Ruhr miners strike has officially ended, Radio Munich reported yesterday. One person was killed and 12,…

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Ruhr Mine Strike Over

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 April 1947 · page 1

MUNICH, Saturday.--The Ruhr miners' strike has officially ended, Radio Munich reported yesterday. One person was killed and 12,…

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Oil, Coal, Atoms Or-?

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 5 April 1947 · page 22

IS Australian oil, if found, worth the search, or is radio-active matter (uranium, for instance)…

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Jews Attach Mine To Ship

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 April 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday.--An explosion occurred yesterday on the British transport Empire Rival. The vessel is reported to…

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Ruhr Mine Strike Over, Says Radio

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 April 1947 · page 1

MUNICH, Saturday.--The Ruhr miners' strike has officially ended, Radio Munich reported yesterday. One person was killed and 12,…

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Ruhr Mine Strike Over, Says Radio

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 April 1947 · page 1

MUNICH, Saturday.--The Ruhr miners' strike has officially ended Radio Munich reported yesterday. One person was killed and 12,…

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U.S. CLOSES 518 MINES Safety Move

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 April 1947 · page 1

WASHINGTON, April 4 (A.A.P.).—The Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Julius Krug, yesterday announced that 518…

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Offer of Blue Spec Gold Shares

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 April 1947 · page 4

Consolidated Gold Mining Arcas N.L. is offering shareholders 50,000 fully-paid shares of its holding in Blue Spec Gold Mines N.L. at 2/3…

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U.s. Miners' Leader Says Minister Must Be Removed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 April 1947 · page 4

NEW YORK, Friday (A.A.P.).--John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, yesterday called the Secretary for the Interior (Mr. Julius Krug) a liar, and…

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