The Fall of Coal at Abermain No. 3
A "NEAR" disaster! Would you like to hear about what Sydney papers called a near disaster?…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining & the mines, 1955
68 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 4
South Coast Miners Beat Bhp
MINERS at Nebo Colliery on the NSW South Coast have won a smashing victory over the BHP-AI&S group, which…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners Win Better Policy on Rates
KANDOS: Resentment among local people against the Rylstone Shire Council over high rates is very strong here. TAKING advantage of this resentment, certain big landlords and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Outsider Cheerywood's Wagga Gold Cup
The Wagga Gold Cup was won by an outsider, Cheerywood, by three lengths on Tuesday; there were 20 runners and Cheerywood beat Moon Coin, Offhand and Exactness dead-heating for third place…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →One was goaded by jealousy... another by fear. The third was blinded by the glitter of gold. EX-CONVICT Ivor Douglas knew these men at Penlonville and Brixton Prisons, and here is his "inside" story:— I Met Three Murderers
HARRY LEWIS walked through the streets of Marylebone. His pockets were empty, but that was no crime. It was dead of night,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attack on Northern miners "is like 1929"
NORTHERN coalminers will stand firm against an attack on their wages and conditions which has revived memories of 1929…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fifty Years Ago (From "Nepcan Times", May 20, 1905) Coal Elevator
The coal elevator now being erected in Penrith railway yards will be the only one of its kind in the State…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' first round win against big monopoly
Miners last week won a first-round victory against coalowner attempts to cut their wages and conditions. MASS meetings of miners from 18…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Real Life Love Story All Is Not Gold... Nola discovered, just in time, that the old saying often applies in everyday life
THE only description which would have adequately summed me up when I first met Sid…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Hollywood Has a Heart of Gold The world hears little of the better side of the film capital's life — and there's plenty of if
HOLLYWOOD is a vast goldfish bowl wherein every sensational move, action, whim or folly of its more celebrated inhabitants are…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →We have lost the gold as well Monopoly links of newspapers
Australia not only lost the price-raising Soviet bids from the wool sales, but lost what capitalism regards as [?]cious in a period of declining overseas balances--the chance of heavy payments in gold. And so Peron gets the Moscow…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mulgoa C.W.A. Blue and Gold Ball
Our annual ball was held at "Westbourne", Wallacia, on Friday June 17, Mrs. Crossman generously made her hall and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners veto Malay troops
"The Menzies-Fadden Government is following policies directly opposed to the spirit of Geneva, especially by its…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners Are Coming to Town
TOMORROW morning, miners are coming to town, hundreds of them in contingents from North, South and Western coalfields to state…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mine pensioners change attitude of Minister
Higher Pensions NOT Higher Prices; Politicians, Turkey and Ham -- Pensioners, Bread and no Jam; Politicians get £12, Pensioners only ask £6; and many other slogans were carried by 800 Retired Mineworkers from the three main…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →New cathedral in salt mine Featuring brilliant underground scenes, this South American project is second of its kind in the world
ONE of the world's modern wondersâan underground cathedral wholly carved out of saltâwill be completed and opened for worship…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Sacking Miners
PERTH (WA): "Uneasiness among miners" at Kalgoorlie is reported by the Perth Daily News, because men aged 65 have been stood down…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Coal crisis means sack for hundreds
The fast developing crisis in the coal industry is causing widespread alarm in the labor movement. Representatives of mining unions and ACTU Secretary R. Broadby conferred with the leader of the Federal Opposition (Dr. Evatt) and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Corrimal Miners Fight Sackings
WOLLONGONG: A stoppage involving 200 members of Corrimal Miners' Lodge has been endorsed by the Southern District Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Unions Act on Coal Crisis
A CTU President Monk is leading a deputation from the Combined Mining Unions to Canberra this week to discuss with the Minister for…
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