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Mining & the mines, 1951

4,219 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 211

Editorial Communism and the Coal Crisis

The Sun · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 3

At a time when Commonwealth and State Ministers are conferring on the coal crisis, it is important that they should have no illusions about the feeling of the people whom they…

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Public protest move in coal crisis

The Sun · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 7

Widespread public meetings to protest against the McGirr Government's "inactivity" in the coal crisis were mooted today by Federal and State Liberal…

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Penalties Order on Strikes Ultimatum To Miners

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 1

The Coal Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) today granted an application by the Joint Coal Board providing for severe penalties against striking miners and…

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Penalties Order on Strikes Ultimatum To Miners

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 1

The Coal Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) today granted an application by the joint Goal Board providing for severe penalties against striking miners and…

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Coal Board Asks For Penalties Against Strikers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 1

The Joint Coal Board at 10 a.m. to-day will ask the Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. F. Gallagher, to make an award providing for penalties for striking or inciting to strike…

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Hearing Starts Of Anti-Strike Award In Mines

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 1

The Coal Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) today began hearing an application by the Joint Coal Board for an award providing for penalties for striking or inciting to strike against his award on December 20…

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State Blocks Mines That Could Ease Our Blackouts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 2

Tucked away at the foot of a huge frowning escarpment in the lovely Burragorang Valley, only 60 miles from Sydney, are two long-forgotten coal mines which have sprung…

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Moves to Invoke Crimes Act Govt. Plan On Miners

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 1

The Federal Government has decided to invoke sections 30J and 30K of the Crimes Act next week if miners refuse to abandon their weekly…

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Moves to Invoke Crimes Act Govt. Plan On Miners

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 1

The federal Government has decided to invoke sections 30J and 30K the Crimes Act next week if miners refuse to abandon their weekly…

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Let's take on the miners in a big way

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 8

USELESS gas stoves and powerless light switches give an unexpected ironic twist…

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Moves to Invoke Crimes Act Govt. Plan On Miners

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 1

The Federal Government has decided to invoke sections 30J and 30K If the Crimes Act next week if miners refuse to abandon their weekly…

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Weekly Strike Approved Miners' Heavy Vote For Direct Action

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 4

Miners on the State's northern and western fields and at Ipswich (Queensland) voted overwhelmingly yesterday in favour of weekly one-day strikes against the Gallagher…

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Fadden Acts in Coal Crisis Emergency Visit By Federal Leaders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 1

Federal and State Ministers will meet in Sydney to-day in an attempt to prevent what the Acting Prime Minister, Mr. A. W. Fadden, last night said could become the most serious industrial upheaval in recent…

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Fadden Flies Here for Coal Talks Moves to end stoppages

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 1

The Acting-Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) will fly to Sydney today for talks on the coal crisis. Big vote for stoppages…

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Few miners attend meetings Less Than 25 p.c. Vote in North

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 7

Fewer than 3000 of the 12,700 mine workers on the northern field attended the aggregate meetings yesterday. Miners at the meetings decided by 2422…

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Tribunal Warning to Miners' Leader 'No Benefits While Country Up To Ransom'

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 2

"Miners are not going to receive the benefits of the award given them while the community is held up for ransom and thousands of innocent…

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Tribunal Warning to Miners' Leader 'No Benefits While Country Up To Ransom'

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 2

"Miners are not going to receive the benefits of the award given them while the community is held up for ransom and thousands of innocent…

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"Gold Modal" Tost for Berkshire Boars in U.S.A.

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 9

SINCE research in the United States has reaveled that less feed is needed to make lean than, far, Berkshire men with a…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Friday, January 26, 1951 Power-starved Sydney Hit Hardest by Coal Crisis

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 2

The savage coal and power cuts, and especially the two days' shut-down next week, have come upon the community…

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Miners' Talks on Stoppages

The Sun · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 3

Federal Council of the Miners' Federation will meet on Tuesday to decide whether to go ahead with the proposed weekly one-day stoppages in defiance of the Coal Industry…

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