Timber Coal Bunder
The wooden coalbunker illustrated above will hold a little over 10 cwt of coal and can easily be built by any handyman…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining & the mines, 1961
53 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3
All Soviet Miners on Six-hour Day
ANOTHER 95,000 underground workers of the coal pits[?]f Stalino in the Donets coal basin have been transferred to a six-hour…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners' £600 for Belgians
SYDNEY: The Miners' Federation has donated £600 to the Belgian strikers, who have now ended their heroic five…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mining Fluorspar in the Pyrenees
THE mining of fluorspar at Escaro deposit, in the western Pyrenees, where a large-capacity enriching plant is being completed, is entering an active phase. The deposit, which was discovered by the Denain-Anzin Company during…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Bar Medal
A 19 - year - old Granville girl has become the first in Australia to win the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Coast Title For ‘Surfers’
Members of the Surfers’ Paradise Hebrew Congregation last week decided to change the name to the Gold Coast Hebrew Congregation. The decision, made at a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →140 sacked : victims of coal 'stabilisation'
SYDNEY: The latest victims of the coal monopoly's "stabilisation" program are the 140 mineworkers and their families sacked from Pelaw Main colliery last week. THE 140 men at Pelaw Main in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Communist Party Attacks Coal Monopoly
Mr. D. Olive, secretary off the Newcastle District Committee of the Communist Party, told Tribune this week that the closure of [?]elaw Main, coming so quickly on top of the closure of Abermain, Aberdare and Kalangra showed that the coal monopoly planned the abandonment of the whole South Maitland field in the near future…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Support
LAST week Mr. Curthoys addressed the Central Council of the Miners Federation, outlining Communist Party…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners see Referendum as anti-monopoly move
The New South Wales referendum aimed at the abolition of the Legislative Council should be seen as an important part of the Australian Council of Trade Unions - Mining Unions program, said the Miners' Federation Central Council…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Call to Mines Be Active in Peace Struggle
SYDNEY: The Miners' Federation Central Council last week called on all miners to play a more active…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South Africa sets oil-coal example Profitable National Asset
The closure of Pelaw Main mine attached to the town of Kurri, which produces coal of the highest quality, highlights the severe crisis of the northern NSW coalfields. TO National Development…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners have YES vote interest
Miners fighting to save their jobs, their homes and their towns have a special interest in ensuring that the referendum on April 29 results…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parking problems City Leads Gold Coast
Parramatta Council's parking facilities and plans for future parking were "far in advance" to anything he had seen in Coolangatta and Surfers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Well Equipped Gold Coast Centre
A communal centre and fully equipped kitchen with facilities for meetings, religious services and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Northern Conference on mining
NEWCASTLE: A public conference to discuss the coal industry crisis, its effects on the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oil monopoly strangling coal industry
SYDNEY: Overseas oil monopolies are deliberately overcharging the Australian petrol consumer to subsidise their wrecking activities against the Australian coal industry…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners Angry Over 35hr Week 'Humbugs'
CESSNOCK: Joint Coal Board Chairman Cochran's assurance "there will be no further dismissals in the Cessnock area ." will ring hollow to 211 mineworkers sacked at two mines in the district in the Bast few days…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Staydown Saves 9 Jobs
BRISBANE: Miners at a Rosewood pit, faced with dismissal notices for nine of their number last week, answered with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners charge N.S.W. Govt. with 35-hour betrayal
"Unable to stall any longer, the NSW Government has 'come clean'. It is not intended to legislate for a 35-hour week in the coalmining industry", says the Miners' paper "Common Cause"…
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