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Mining & the mines, 1961

53 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 3

Nationalise Mt. Isa Mines--Communist election call

Tribune · Wednesday 4 October 1961 · page 12

BRISBANE: The Communist Party and its candidates in Queensland--for the Senate and the Herbert, Moreton and Brisbane seats--will make nationalisation of Mt. Isa Mines a major point in their program, during and after the election…

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"Hill" Miners' struggle rises

Tribune · Wednesday 18 October 1961 · page 12

BROKEN HILL: Twelve hundred mine workers here on Sunday put to State Labor and Industry Minister J. J. Maloney the case for…

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Gold Star Homes Feature

The Biz · Wednesday 18 October 1961 · page 7

Pictured is one of the 80 homes which comprise the first stage of the Gold Star Estate. It shows the weeks…

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Gold Star Homes Feature First Stage of Homes Project Open to Public

The Biz · Wednesday 18 October 1961 · page 6

The first stage of a £800,000 homes project in Fairfield was officially opened in an impressive ceremony on Saturday morning…

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Warning on oil threat to coal miners

Tribune · Wednesday 25 October 1961 · page 8

SYDNEY: The report of the Joint Coal Board, issued recently, says that the "coalmining industry of New South Wales continues…

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Gold Coast honeymoon

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 25 October 1961 · page 9

ABOVE: Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Hunt leaving their reception at Lauriston, Dundas, for their honeymoon on…

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United call: Nationalise Mt. Isa Mines

Tribune · Wednesday 25 October 1961 · page 3

Mt. Isa Mines' brutal closedown, now a month old, shows this foreign-controlled monopoly to be alien to Australian, interests, contemptuous of the elementary welfare of workers and their families, and unfit to have control over Australian…

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Mt Isa Mines Can Afford Higher Bonus

Tribune · Wednesday 1 November 1961 · page 9

BRISBANE: Mt. Isa Mines, the American-controlled monopoly which locked out 2500 workers in Mt. Isa over five weeks ago, will have another opportunity to end the current deadlock at a compulsory conference in Mt. Isa…

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Coal Parkinson Sees It Under Socialism

Tribune · Wednesday 8 November 1961 · page 8

"I have seen in practice what I've been advocating in theory for over 20 years. I have seen with my own eyes what can be done when an economy is run in the interests of the people generally."…

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Miners' wives: Vote against Menzies Govt

Tribune · Wednesday 15 November 1961 · page 12

MINEFIELDS women will actively campaign against the Menzies Government in the forthcoming Federal elections…

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With Gold Knobs On

Tribune · Wednesday 22 November 1961 · page 2

IF the people here plan to build a little cottage, they had better wait just another few months. Then they will have the chance…

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Uranium mining in France

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 8 December 1961 · page 4

THE annual report of the Atomic Energy Commission shows that a total of 1,068 tons of uranium was mined in 1960…

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Monopoly a view of the works at Mt. Isa Mines. After Years of Struggle... Break-through on Isa penal clause

Tribune · Wednesday 13 December 1961 · page 5

BRISBANE: After years of unsuccessful effort to get rid of a penal clause on Mt. Isa workers' annual leave, unions have at last secured Mt. Isa Mines' agreement not to oppose a new claim by the unions to have the clause removed from the…

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