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Mining & the mines, 1948

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Most State Coal Mines Out Over Qld. Crisis Red Influence Behind Strikes

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 1

ALL but ten of the coal mines in New South Wales were idle today. There is no certainty that they will resume tomorrow. Nobody seems to know. It is possible that this stoppage is part of a…

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Most N.s.wv Coal Mines Idle Communist Influence Suspected Secrecy of Union Talks

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 2

ALL but ten of the coat mines in New South Wales were idle today. There is no certainty that they will resume tomorrow. Nobody seems to know…

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MOST N.S.W. Coal Mines Idle Communist Influence Suspected Secrecy of Union Talks

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 2

ALL but ten of the coal mines in New South Wales were idle today. There is no certainty that they will resume tomorrow. Nobody seems to know…

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Miners and Owners to Show Cause

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Thursday. -- A two-day limit has been given soft-coal owners and striking…

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Miners and Owners to Show Cause

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Thursday. -- A two-day limit has been given soft-coal owners and striking…

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Miners and Owners to Show Cause

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Thursday. -- A two-day limit has been given soft-coal owners and striking…

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Miners and Owners to Show Cause

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Thursday. -- A two-day limit has been given soft-coal owners and striking…

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Two Mines Idle for Six Months

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 16

No underground work was done by Ironbark South G. M. Co., N.L., in the half-year ended December 31, and a loss…

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Sale of Coal Powers For Councils

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 4

Local councils mining coal will be able to sell and distribute it under the amending Local Government…

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Palestine's Gold Reserve Flown to Britain

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 1

JERUSALEM March 16.—It is officially stated that the entire gold reserve of Palestine totalling 11 million pounds sterling has been flown to Britain…

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Few Goal Mines in N.s.w. Work

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 2

Most N.S.W. miners are idle today in protest against police action during yesterday's Brisbane disorders. ALL southern and western…

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Protest Strike in N.S.W. MINES Support For Qld. Railmen Yesterday's developments in the Queensland railway strike

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 1

Western New South Wales miners decided to call a 24-hour strike today of all their mines as a protest against police action in breaking up a railway strikers' demonstration in Brisbane yesterday…

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Two Gold Mines Report Losses

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 12

Maxwell Consolidated, N.L., lost £3750 for the year ended November 30 last. Because of labor shortage it…

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Broker to His Client Invincible Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 12

Client: Would you say the purchase of surplus liquid assets--mostly Government loan--at 177 in…

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RESIGNATION Gold Fields Aust

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 5

Mr. C. A. de Bernales has resigned as a director from Gold Fields Australian Development Co. Ltd…

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£60,000,000 Coal Plan

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- An allocation of £60,000,000 to develop electrical undertakings in…

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Leftists plan industrial chaos-- coal worry

The Sun · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 2

Unions dominated by left-wingers are believed to be planning a campaign af irritation and piecemeal stoppages to disrupt industry, pending a policy decision by the Miners' Federation on its attitude to the Queensland anti - picketing…

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Coal Strike in U. S. Curtails Train Services

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Friday. -- The Government has ordered a 25 per cent, cut in coal -burning railway…

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Northern Miners Back on Job Western Men Unable To Resume Protests on Queensland

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 2

ALL northern miners idle yesterday because of the Queensland disorders resumed work today. In the west, however, a protest…

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Northern Miners Back on Job Western Men Unable To Resume Protests on Queensland

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 2

ALL northern miners idle yesterday because of the Queensland disorders resumed work today. In the west, however, a protest…

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