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Mining & the mines, 1957

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Miners aid Arab war victims

Tribune · Wednesday 9 January 1957 · page 12

LONDON. -- At the request of a number of its lodges, South Wales area of the National Union of Mineworkers has decided to send…

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Miners produce selves out of jobs "This is capitalism " leader says

Tribune · Wednesday 9 January 1957 · page 9

"This is capitalism: the more you produce, the more your insecurity."…

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Russian Help on Mine Disasters

Tribune · Wednesday 16 January 1957 · page 12

Russia and Australia are now exchanging scientific information which will help to prevent any future occurrence of gas explosions in coal mines similar to the Collinsville, North Queensland, disaster in 1954…

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Rotary Meets on Coal Crisis

Tribune · Wednesday 23 January 1957 · page 12

CESSNOCK: On Thursday night (tomorrow) Cessnock Rotary will throw open its usual meeting to all business people and others to…

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Two carloads of miners at conference

Tribune · Wednesday 23 January 1957 · page 11

SYDNEY. -- Two carloads of miners from Aberdare Central and Aberdare Extended…

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Cessnock miners march for jobs

Tribune · Wednesday 30 January 1957 · page 12

NEWCASTLE: Last Wednesday, Cessnock had its biggest demonstration since the depression. MORE than 1,000 determined men…

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Miners to Meet Facts deny Spooner's 'no crisis'

Tribune · Wednesday 30 January 1957 · page 1

SYDNEY: The Northern Board of Management of the Miners' Federation last week decided that the time has come to hold aggregate meetings of all mineworkers on…

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Gas from coal--underground

Tribune · Wednesday 6 February 1957 · page 4

MOSCOW--The project of the world's biggest station of underground gasification of coal has been worked out in the USSR. To be…

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Miners await Govt replies on program

Tribune · Wednesday 6 February 1957 · page 2

SYDNEY: With new dismissals on the Northern fields further aggravating the coal crisis, the NSW Government has promised to reply to proposals put forward by the Miners Federation to counter the…

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Local Government Can Help Coal Industry

The Biz · Wednesday 6 February 1957 · page 6

"The coal industry is having a bad time, but coal is a national asset If we make use of It," said Aid. R. S. Luke, president of the…

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Local Government Can Help the Coal Industry

The St George Call · Thursday 7 February 1957 · page 1

"The coal industry is having a bad time, but coal is a national asset if we make use of it," says Ald. R. S. Luke,…

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Cahill Government disappoints miners Humbug While Crisis Spreads

Tribune · Wednesday 13 February 1957 · page 2

Intense disappointment with the NSW Government's replies to Miners' Federation proposals for meeting the coal industry crisis has been expressed by the union's…

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Women Support Miners' Policy

Tribune · Wednesday 20 February 1957 · page 10

SYDNEY.--The National Executive of the Union of Australian Women has expressed full support for coalfields women and children…

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ACTU backs coal industry program

Tribune · Wednesday 20 February 1957 · page 2

The ACTU executive has given its backing to the Miners' Federation in a program of measures against the crisis in the coal industry. AFTER discussions with…

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Communist Party statement on the coal crisis

Tribune · Wednesday 20 February 1957 · page 2

THE crisis in the coal industry, expressed in the closing of mines and the dismissal of…

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Western Mining Corpn. Man for Mt. Morgan

Tribune · Wednesday 20 February 1957 · page 4

MR. E. K. Penrose has just been appointed assistant general manager of Mt. Morgan Ltd. He came to Mt. Morgan from Western Mining…

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Miners protest on MSS at abattoirs

Tribune · Wednesday 27 February 1957 · page 10

SOUTH BULLI (NSW South Coast) miners lodge on Monday carried a resolution protesting against introduction of…

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Nthn. miners meet to force claims

Tribune · Wednesday 6 March 1957 · page 9

SYDNEY: Aggregate meetings of northern NSW coalfields miners which the Miners' Federation consider "will make history as the first of their kind authorised by the Australian Council of Trade…

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Guatemala--US gold-mine

Tribune · Wednesday 13 March 1957 · page 8

"AN investment project by a US firm for the establishment of a modern sawmill to process soft woods near Zapaca was approved…

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Miners Adopt Program

Tribune · Wednesday 13 March 1957 · page 3

SYDNEY: Aggregate meetings held on the northern coalfields last week were the most united for years, despite some sections repudiating the stoppage, Miners' Federation officials told Tribune…

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