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Mining & the mines, 1947

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Mine Host-1947 Version

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 16

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Vic. Miners 1 New Sec

Tribune · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 7

Mr. J. Burt has been elected secretary of the Victorian district of the Miners’ Federation. HE fills the vacancy caused by the…

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Miners Question Alp on Leaflet

Tribune · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 7

The Central Council of the Miners' Federation will ask the central executive of the Australian Labor Party to explain a leaflet distributed during the recent election of the federation’s general president. THIS leaflet, which attacked one of…

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AEU Won't Stop Mines

The Sun · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 2

The Amalgamated Engineering Union has cancelled arrangements for a 24-hour stoppage at all mines on the South…

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Miners on South Coast Elect Communist Pres

Tribune · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 1

SOUTH Coast miners have elected a Communist, Mr. W. Parkinson as their president in a special election following the resignation of Mr. F…

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Wet Clothes And Horse Cause Idle Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 3

Seven New South Wales mines were idle yesterday, for an estimated loss of 4,710 tons of coal. At one mine (Bloomfield New…

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4160 Tons of Coal Will Be Lost Today

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 5

COAL losses in N.S.W. today will be about 4160 tons. Stoppages on the northern field are at Stock-rington No. 2 (800 tons), Abermain…

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4160 Tons of Coal Will Be Lost Today

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 5

COAL losses in N.S.W. today will be about 4160 tons.. Stoppages on the northern field are at Stockrington No. 2 (800 tons), Abermain…

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4160 Tons of Coal Will Be Lost Today

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 5

COAL losses in N.S.W. today will be about 4160 tons.. Stoppages on the northern field are at Stock-rington No. 2 (800 tons), Abermain…

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4160 Tons of Coal Will Be Lost Today

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 5

COAL losses in N.S.W. today will be about 4160 tons. Stoppages on the northern field are at Stock-rington No. 2 (800 tons), Abermain…

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4160 Tons of Coal Will Be Lost Today

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 5

COAL losses in N.S.W. today will be about 4160 tons.. Stoppages on the northern field are at Stockrington No. 2 (800 tons). Abermain…

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Families Of Mine Dead Compensated

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 May 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, May 2 (A.A.P.). —The families of the 111 miners killed in the Centralia disaster on March 25 have been awarded…

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Mine Work Hours "Risk" in Britain

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 May 1947 · page 3

LONDON Saturday.--Introduction of a five-days' working week in British mines was an experiment with a risk, the…

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Mine Work Hours "Risk" in Britain

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 May 1947 · page 7

LONDON Saturday.--Introduction of a five-days' working week in British mines was an experiment with a risk, the…

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Miners' holidays were staggered

The Sun · Sunday 4 May 1947 · page 1

A hundred thousand South Wales miners have agreed to stagger their annual holidays over a two month period…

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Train Cuts Follow S.a. Coal Shortage

Truth · Sunday 4 May 1947 · page 35

ADELAIDE, Saturday.—Because of the present coal shortage, seven of next week's passenger trains on the Commonwealth's Port Pirie-Port…

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