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Mining & the mines, 1949

6,231 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

Miners Called "Selfish" Body

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 3

"You have to step out of ranks of the Miners Federation to realise how damned stupid and selfish they are the secretary of the Maitland Deputies' Association (Mr. N…

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Miners Called "Selfish" Body

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 3

"You have to step out of the ranks of the Miners' Federation to realise how damned stupid and selfish they are the secretary of the Maitland Deputies' Association (Mr. N…

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Warning On Gold Shares

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 6

Coolgardie Gold Mines, Ltd., yesterday stated, in a letter to the Sydney Stock Exchange, that its…

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Doubts Ban On Gold Subsidies

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 14

Western Australian Chamber of Mines questions the extent to which the International Monetary Fund binds Australia not to grant a gold subsidy…

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Mining Council to Meet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 1

The Coal Mining Unions' Council will meet in Sydney oh Monday morning to discuss the mining engineers' dispute…

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Mine Strikers Defy Work Order; Grave Crisis

The Sun · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 1

Striking engineers on the South Maitland and Newcastle coalfields today decided to defy the Coal Reference Board order to return to work. This means that a drastic system of…

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Gas-less Monday Is in Sight Coal Supplies Dwindling

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 1

Sydney probably will be without gas next Monday as a result of the engineers' strike on the South Maitland coalfield…

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Gas May Finish by Monday New Moves To Settle Strike 25 Mines Idle on Northern Fields

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 2

FRESH efforts are being made today to end the mining engineers' strike which has been outlawed fey the Coal Tribunal and leaders of the men's own union, the A.E.U. EVEN if the men at today's…

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Gas May Finish by Monday New Moves To Settle Strike 25 Mines Idle on Northern Fields

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 2

FRESH efforts are being made today to end the mining engineers' strike which has been outlawed by the Coal Tribunal and leaders of the men's own union, the A.E.U. EVEN if the men at today's…

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Gold Subsidies "Permissible"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 6

The Commonwealth Government's attitude in refusing to subsidise the gold mining industry is criticised in a statement by the…

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High Output of Aust. Miners

Tribune · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 8

NEXT time the capitalist press cuts loose with lies about “loafing Australian miners” you might…

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Better Than Mining

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 2

A LITTLE known, but apparently lucrative, occupation in Sydney is the stoking of furnaces in blocks of flats…

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Defiance of Law Mine Strike Reactions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 4

Anarchy was stampeding once again on the northern coalfields, the president of the…

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Coal Supplies "Frozen" for Essential Use

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 4

The Joint Cool Board yesterday "froze" all coal supplies held by Sydney coal distributors. The Board took this…

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Southern Miners Welcome Plan For Better Deal

Tribune · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 8

THE Miners’ Federation program for a better deal for the coalfields including a 30/- rise, 35 hour week and long service leave was given an…

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Melbourne Races Saxonian Outstays Gold Gem

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Saxonian, who was beaten by an inch or so by New Cashmere in the Australian Cup,…

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Wife's Move Ends Gold-Buying Racket

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 3

Police will find a story of illicit trafficking in gold if they look behind the sudden out-of-court settlement of a maintenance claim in Melbourne recently. THE Victorian Police Department…

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Talks on Coal Crisis Adjourn: No Settlement

The Sun · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 1

A compulsory conference, called in a last-minute attempt to overcome the coal crisis and avert a disastrous tie-up of industry, adjourned shortly after 11 am today without a settlement being reached…

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Effort Today to End Coal Hold-up

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 1

The Chairman of the Coal Reference Board (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) last night called parties in the northern coalfields strike to a…

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First Impressions COAL'S very scarce, between hew and me

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 1

SMITH'S reported that 600 are employed at Australia House. But how many work there?…

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