Unique Coal Pipeline
A 106-mile coal pipelin the first major conveyor its kind in the world, under construction from…
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Gold License
THIS is a facsimile of a gold licence issued in October, 1853. The licences were the spark that set Eureka flame, after the Government insisted that all diggers carry a licence at all times -- the purpose being to force the diggers away from the goldfields into the service of the squatters. The brutal conduct of the police and military…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Outlook Review by Bank
The coal mining industry is facing a period of readjustment. Although productive capacity exceeds present demand, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners Form Committee to Help Watersiders
MINERS at the Lithgow State Mine formed a committee to assist the wharfies while in Lithgow and arranged 30 meetings…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Suspect "Industrial Blackmail" in Closing of Bellbird Mine
The Miners' Federation is inclined to believe that the announcement that Bellbird colliery, Newcastle, is to close amounts to industrial blackmail aimed at inducing acceptance of worsened conditions and a less strict approach to safety…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mine Closedown Spells Death to Town of 2500
NEWCASTLE: A dead town. That is what Bellbird, with its population of 2½ thousand, will be now that the mine has been closed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners' Demand on Bellbird
COMMENTING yesterday on the proposed reopening of the Bellbird mine, a spokesman for the Miners' Federation said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Levy for Flood Relief
BRISBANE: The annual meeting of the Board of Management of the Miners' Union unanimously, decided to ask all members to pay a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Mine Closed Unions to take action
NEWCASTLE: Unions here will take industrial action soon in protest against the closure of Bellbird mine. Bellbird, with 600 workers and their…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Coal miners to march on Canberra
A mass demonstration of miners to Canberra on March 21, as a first step in a long campaign for jobs and conditions, was decided on by 11 aggregate meetings of miners in the northern fields last Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Sacked Big Coalfields Battle Looming
Closure on a week's notice of Stockrington No. 1 pit close on the heels of the locking out of 600 miners of Bellbird, shocked the mining town of West Wallsend (near Newcastle). IT stirred miners to rally at the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners' march made Govt Change its tune Promised full conference on cool industry
CANBERRA.--Unemployed miners, their wives and sympathetic workers last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Progress Assns. Protest at Beach Sand Mining
THE Near North Coast and Mary Valley (Qld.) Council of Progress Associations has opposed beach sand mining at Coolum. The annual…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Unions draw up progress for the coal industry Demands to Federal Government
ALL mining unions, at a two-day conference in Sydney this week, agreed upon a program for the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Lifesavers' Veto on Rutile Mine
SUTHERLAND Shire organisations have been carrying out a protest movement against rutile mining on the shire beaches…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miners' Wives Crusading for Bellbird Food for Families Put the case to thousands
TWO miners' wives from Bellbird, NSW, have just completed a strenuous ten-day visit to Sydney and the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bellbird miners [and wives] keen up fight Help from as far as NZ
CESSNOCK (NSW): Three months since they were locked out, Bellbird mine workers -- and their wives…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Silica Mining
At the meeting of Penrith Council held on Tuesday evening. 22nd inst., council's views were requested regarding the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners fight AIS on safety issue
AUSTRALIAN Iron Steel is being challenged by South Coast miners on their brazen attempt to reduce safety measures at…
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