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Mining & the mines, 1949

6,231 stories in Sydney's papers · page 84 of 250

Threat of Coal Strike Eases

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 May 1949 · page 6

Moderates on the Coal Mining Unions' Council yesterday eased the threat of coalmine stoppages about the mining unions' log of claims…

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Q'land Coal Strike Threat

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 May 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday. -- Queensland is threatened ' with a coal stoppage. This was made known today when the…

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Q'land Coal Strike Threat

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 May 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday.-- Queensland is threatened with a coal stoppage. This was made known today when the…

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Talks to Go on Decision By Miners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 May 1949 · page 1

The danger of an immediate general stoppage in the coal industry receded yesterday…

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Miners Determined On New Deal: Talks Open

Tribune · Saturday 21 May 1949 · page 1

Mining union officials entered vital talks on the national claims log this week backed by the united determination of miners to win a new deal before the next depression. THE urgent need to nationalise the…

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Strange but True Paved With Gold

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 21 May 1949 · page 22

GOLD is often discovered in the street pavements of Kalgoorlie (W.A.). When the footpaths of Kalgoorlie were laid in 1899…

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Old Bone Shaft Held Secret of Missing Gold Detectives a Story Of Villainy In The Golden West

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 May 1949 · page 6

IT was on the evening of April 23, 1924, that Detective-Inspector John Joseph Walsh and Detective-Sgt. Alexander Henry Pitman set off from their office in Kalgoorlie on their bicycles for a patrol of the country about Boulder. Gold-stealing and illicit gold-dealing were rife. The gold was stolen from the lode by…

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Reds Move for Big Coal Tie-up

Truth · Sunday 22 May 1949 · page 5

BRISBANE, Saturday.—There is a widespread Communist conspiracy in Queensland to bring about…

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MEDICINE--SCIENCE U.S. turned coal to petrol with Germany's aid

The Sun · Sunday 22 May 1949 · page 35

America has cashed another if the chips she won in World War II--sucked the juice from another German invention. In the town of…

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Three-Piece For Baby THIS cosy outfit, which includes overalls, coal and bonnet, will fit a baby from three to six months old

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 22 May 1949 · page 13

MATERIALS: Coat—5 oz. of 3-ply super-fingering, two No. 10 needles, 4 buttons, No. 10 crochet hook. Overalls—2 oz. of…

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Miners meet to dear air for coal talks

The Sun · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 6

Miners' representatives from all States are attending a meeting of the Miners' Central Council in Sydney this afternoon, which is expected to provide a clearer indication of the miners' attitude to this week's critical coal talks…

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Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 6

FREEBURGH: Treated, 18.300 cub. yds., for 54.[?]…

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New Talks on Miners' Award

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 3

The Central Council of the Miners Federation is meeting today to consider its approach to new discussions with coal owners on the mineworkers' new award claims…

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Production Again at Lead Mine

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 3

THE Full Bench of the Indus- trial Commission was told today that the Lake George lead and zinc mine at Captain's…

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New Talks on Miners' Award

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 3

The Central Council of the Miners' Federation is meeting today to consider its approach to new discussions with coal owners on the mineworkers' new award claims…

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New Talks on Miners' Award

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 3

The Central Council of the Miners' Federation is meeting today to consider its approach to new discussions with coal owners on the mineworkers' new award claims…

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New Talks on Miners' Award

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 2

The Central Council of the Miners' Federation is meeting today to consider its approach to new discussions with coal owners on the mineworkers' new award claims…

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Mine Union Council To Stand By

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 4

The general president of the Miners' Federation, Mr. I. Williams, said last night that the central council of…

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Vic. Seeking Big Q'land Coal Supplies

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 10

BRISBANE, Sun.--The Victorian Government has asked the Queensland Government to let it have 200,000 tons of Collide field coal a…

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Latrobe Valley's brown coal will nourish Victoria's Ruhr

The Sun · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 10

ON the old showground at Morwell, Victoria, men have begun to dig a hole, and others like it, out of which will come the life blood of new cities. Fly over the Latrobe Valley (south-eastern Victoria) in…

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