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Mining & the mines, 1954

2,282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 115

Down the Mine

The Sun · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 11

SIR BERNARD and LADY DOCKER on March 21 fulfiled a long outstanding promise to visit Leeds and descend a coalmine. In overalls and miners' helmets, they were taken…

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Miners Laid Off

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 20

ESSEN, Mon. (B.U.P.). --Twenty-thousand Ruhr Valley miners, have been laid off in recent weeks…

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Miners Laid Off

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 20

ESSEN, Mon. (B.U.P.). --Twenty-thousand Ruhr Valley miners have been laid off in recent weeks…

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Move on Pillar Coal

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 16

NEWCASTLE, Mon.--A move by the Miners' Federation has reduced the risk of a serious crisis in the coal industry…

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Move on Pillar Coal

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 16

NEWCASTLE, Mon.--A move by the Miners' Federation has reduced the risk of a serious crisis in the coal industry…

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Move on Pillar Coal

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 16

NEWCASTLE, Mon.--A move by the Miners' Federation has reduced the risk of a serious crisis in the coal industry…

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Gold Scheme works

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 30

Sydney Cup co-favorite, Geld Scheme, continues to improve. The New Zealander was doing slightly…

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Gold Scheme works

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 30

Sydney Cup co-favorite, Gold Scheme, continues to improve. The New Zealander was doing slightly…

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Gold Scheme works

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 30

Sydney Cup co-favorite, Geld Scheme, continues to improve. The New Zealander was doing sliehtly…

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Warning on Coal Industry

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 2

Only the early use to machines to extract coal pillars could save the coal industry, Mr…

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U.s. Opposes Gold Change

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 15

LONDON, Tues. (D.M.W.C.).-- The Financial Times said today that the Treasury had declared it…

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U.s. Opposes Gold Change

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 15

LONDON. Tues. (D.M.W.C.). --The Financial Times said today that the Treasury had declared it…

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Pillar Coal Extraction Owners Threaten To Go Ahead

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 3

Coalowners would begin mechanical extraction of pillar coal from underground mines as soon as the Coal Industry Tribunal had determined the miners' log…

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Gold change opposition

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 4

WASHINGTON, Tues.--The U.S. Treasury strongly opposed a return at present to the gold standard, Mr. George Burgess said today…

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U.k. Gold Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 9

The London price ot cold, fine (free market) on Monday, was £stgl2/8/5½ an oz. (up 1½d.)…

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Miners move in defence of jobs

Tribune · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 12

A packed public meeting in Cardiff last week called for the defeat of the Menzies Government and action by the State Government, as essential steps in the campaign of Cardiff mineworkers to prevent dismissals and the closure of Cardiff…

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Central Australia's Mining "Ghost Town"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Wed.--Central Australia is getting a mining ghost town. Hatcher's Creek, about 200 miles north of Alice…

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Central Australia's Mining "Ghost Town"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Wed.--Central Australia is getting a mining ghost town. Hatcher's Creek, about 200 miles north of Alice…

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Central Australia's Mining "Ghost Town"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 11

ADELAIDE, Wed.--Central Australia is getting a mining ghost town. Hatcher's Creek, about 200 miles north of Alice…

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Central Australia's Mining "Ghost Town"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Wed.--Central Australia is getting a mining ghost town. Hatcher's Creek, about 200 miles north of Alice…

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