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Mining & the mines, 1952

3,110 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 156

50 Men In Stay-down Mine Strike

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 June 1952 · page 3

LITHGOW, Tuesday. —Fifty shale workers are taking part in a "stay down strike" in a shale…

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Steamer in Peril As Coal Stocks Run Low in Gale

The Sun · Wednesday 4 June 1952 · page 3

Battered by cyclones and running short of coal, the steamer James Cook (2181 tons), is in trouble about 100 miles east of Newcastle…

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They Don's Want to Leave the Mine Stay-in men plan siege

The Sun · Wednesday 4 June 1952 · page 5

GLEN DAVIS, Wednesday. -- 52 "stay-down" Glen Davis shale miners are preparing for a long siege 1000ft. below the surface…

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Miners fear unemployment

The Sun · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 2

Mining union leaders in the Lithgow area fear widespread unemployment because, they say,…

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Miners Relax Underground

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 1

A group of miners who are staging a "stay-down strike" at Glen Davis shown relaxing below the surface yesterday. (Special Article, page 2.)…

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Men's Threat to Block Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 5

LITHGOW, Wed.--Stay-in strikers the Glen Davis shale mine threatened today to block the tunnel if officials tried to force their way into…

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All Mines Working in West

The Sun · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 9

All Western mines worked today, following a resume-work order by the Western…

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Receiver for Dittmer Gold

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 24

Mr. L. A. Stuckey has been appointed receiver and manager of Dittmer Gold Mines Ltd. by the…

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Receiver for Dittmer Gold

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 24

Mr. L. A. Stuckey has been appointed receiver and manager of Dittmer Gold Mines Ltd. by the…

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Receiver for Dittmer Gold

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 24

Mr. L. A. Stuckey has been appointed receiver and manager of Dittmer Cold Mines Ltd. by the…

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Mine Strike Over Glen Davis Ended

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 13

LITHGOW, Thurs.--Western, miners returned to work today after their one-day protest stoppage in support off the Glen Davis "stay-in'' miners. They were encouraged to…

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Miners' Stay-in 'Own Business,' Says Beale

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 7

CANBERRA, Thurs.--If the 52 miners staging the underground strike at Glen Davis decided to stay down the mine "it was their business," the Minister for Supply (Mr. Beale) told the House of Representatives early today…

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Miners' Stay-in 'Own Business,' Says Beale

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 7

CANBERRA, Thurs.--If the 52 miners staging the underground strike at Glen Davis decided to stay down the mine "it Was their business," the Minister for Supply (Mr. Beale) told the House of Representatives early today…

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Miners' Stay-in 'Own Business,' Says Beale

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 4

CANBERRA, Thurs,--If the 52 miners staging the underground strike of Glen Davis decided to stay down the mine "it was their business," the Minister for Supply (Mr. Beale) told the House of Representatives early today…

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Miners' Stay-in 'Own Business,' says Beale

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 4

CANBERRA, Thurs.--If the 52 miners staging the underground strike at Glen Davis decided to stay down the mine "it was their business," the Minister for Supply (Mr. Beale) fold the House of Representatives early today…

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They'll Keep Their Gold Passes

The Sun · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 2

CANBERRA, Thursday. -- Federal parliamentarians have decided to keep their gold passes and…

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Glen Davis Miners Are "Staying Put" In Comfort

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 2

YESTERDAY I rode on the Glen Davis electric railway down the mineshaft which runs straight…

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West Mines Stop: Support For "Stay-in" Strikers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 1

Miners from 18 pits on the western coalfields went on strike yesterday in sympathy with the "stay-down" strikers at Glen Davis shale mine…

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[?]w the Dutch Coal Mines Supply Fertilizers From Coal to Nitrogen

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 3

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Israel Begins Mining of Copper ‘King Solomon’s Mines’

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 3

News arriving from Israel reveals that the mining of copper ore has been initiated in the southermost tip of Israel. The copper, which may revolutionise previous estimates of the young…

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