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Mining & the mines, 1959

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All from coal

Tribune · Wednesday 20 May 1959 · page 10

THERE is a lesson for Australia in this picture. As well as using coal for fuel, the Chinese people are…

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Miners' June Deadline for Govt. Action

Tribune · Wednesday 20 May 1959 · page 1

SYDNEY: The Miners' Federation Central Executive will organise "appropriate action" at the end of June if…

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Drop Name Gold Says

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 22 May 1959 · page 12

A former Hakoah-Vienna Soccer star said in Sydney this week that Hakoah Sydney Club should change its name…

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Miners Condemn Politicians

Tribune · Wednesday 27 May 1959 · page 12

SYDNEY: The Central Council of the Miners' Federation, last week condemned the N.S.W. delegation to the Federal A.L.P…

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A.l.p. Mine Inquiry

Tribune · Wednesday 27 May 1959 · page 12

THE Federal Parliamentary Labor Party has "elected a committee to investigate the coal and metal mining industries and report back to…

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German miners go East

Tribune · Wednesday 3 June 1959 · page 6

MORE and more West German miners are coming to live in the German Democratic Republic, where there is security and no…

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STUDY Of the Coal Industry

The Biz · Wednesday 3 June 1959 · page 14

At a recent meeting of the Coal Mines Coin mi lice of the International Labor Organisation (ILO) it…

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Mitsui Grab at Australian Coal

Tribune · Wednesday 3 June 1959 · page 4

WITH hundreds of Australian coal fields families living on unemployment benefits, plans are afoot to allow Japanese monopolist…

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Cahill to meet mine, ACTU representatives

Tribune · Wednesday 3 June 1959 · page 10

SYDNEY: N.S.W. Premier Cahill is fro meet representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the mining unions on Thursday next week (June 11). The deputation will mark a new…

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From Factory, Mine, Ship 500 Italians Act Against Big Wage Cut

Tribune · Wednesday 3 June 1959 · page 12

WALLONGONG: Company action which is equivalent to a cut in pay of up to £310- a week for some workers resulted in industrial action by about 500 Italians at the Electric Power Transmission Company last week…

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Mining and Geological Society Annual Golf Match

Tharunka · Monday 8 June 1959 · page 5

The narrow and somewhat questionable defeat in the Cricket Match was avenged by the Students with a resounding victory over the staff at Golf on Wednesday, 6th…

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Support for Communist coal policy

Tribune · Wednesday 10 June 1959 · page 3

SYDNEY: Meetings addressed on behalf of the Communist Party in the Kurri-Cessnock area in the last week have displayed tremendous…

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From Factory Mine & SHIP Pillars men resume: negotiate on demands

Tribune · Wednesday 10 June 1959 · page 12

SYDNEY: By a narrow majority, a meeting of Pillars' Port Kembla strikers decided on Monday to accept a recommendation of the N.S.W. Labor Council's Disputes Committee for a change of tactics involving a resumption of work and…

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Communist Party and coal crisis Will submit to Hunter Valley Conference

Tribune · Wednesday 10 June 1959 · page 8

NEWCASTLE: A statement of Communist views on ways to meet the…

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Why Do Mines Close Down?

Tribune · Wednesday 17 June 1959 · page 10

NO mine has ever been shut down in Gollie because it ran out of coal. Mines have shut down because they…

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Mine hours cut welcomed: 35hr. week urged

Tribune · Wednesday 17 June 1959 · page 3

SYDNEY: The N.S.W. Government's decision to reduce working hours in State coalmines has been hailed as a most important break-through and as a springboard for the campaign for shorter hours in industry generally!…

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MINING The Gara Djebilet iron ore deposit

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 19 June 1959 · page 4

PROSPECTING undertaken at Gara Djebilet, 84 miles south-east of Tindouf, has shown the existence of a very large iron ore deposit,…

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From Factory Mine & Ship

Tribune · Wednesday 24 June 1959 · page 11

SYDNEY: Efforts by Metters Ltd. to discredit a six weeks (strike of 20 workers by a letter circulated to all employees has been refuted in a letter of reply distributed at the gate last Monday by the strikers…

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Living Increases Bring Bans at Radium Mine

Tribune · Wednesday 24 June 1959 · page 11

ADELAIDE: Workers at the Radium Hill uranium mine last Wednesday held a slopwork meeting and imposed a ban on overtime and underground contract work. This move was made following…

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From Factory, Mine, Ship Reinstated after strike solidarity

Tribune · Wednesday 1 July 1959 · page 12

NEWCASTLE: Solidarity between boilermakers employed by Bab- cock and Wilcox at BHP and at Wangi was followed by the…

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