Mines kill faster than cancer!
Tribune · Wednesday 6 June 1962 · page 3
SYDNEY: Coal mining accidents in New South Wiles this year are proportionately a bigger killer than cancer, said the General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. W. Parkinson) this week. SINCE mid-January there have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Locket for Lucky Girl
Nepean Times · Thursday 14 June 1962 · page 1
Miss Linda Summerhayes (left) receiving a gold locket from the Mayoress, Mrs. W. L. Chapman, at Penrith Chamber of Commerce ball last Friday night On the right is Mr. Ron Summerhayes, Linda's father and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →From Factory, Mine, Ship 1500 Stop
Tribune · Wednesday 20 June 1962 · page 10
About 1,500 workers at Vale's Point power station stopped work last Friday, demanding reinstatement of five workers sacked by…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Crisis in Mine Workers' Pension Fund
Tribune · Wednesday 27 June 1962 · page 3
THE Combined Mining Unions Council will meet in Sydney on Friday to discuss the Actuarial Report on the Mineworkers'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Books! a novel of the mines
Tribune · Wednesday 4 July 1962 · page 6
"THE Adventurers" by Margot Heinemann is a novel about, real people in England during the period of the cold…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →More Miners Sacked
Tribune · Wednesday 11 July 1962 · page 12
NEWCASTLE: Another 100 miners at the Liddell colliery received notice this week. This mine was employing labor at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Coal sackings grow with stagnant market
Tribune · Wednesday 15 August 1962 · page 12
Further sackings on the Northern coalfields are mainly because of failure of the Japanese market to develop as forecast. THIS is claimed by the current issue of the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miners will query "agreement" report on A.C.T.U. visits
Tribune · Wednesday 5 September 1962 · page 10
Central Council of the Miners' Federation will "forward the strongest protest to the Australian Council of Trade Unions" if the terms of an agreement reported to have been reached with certain union officials for payment of outstanding affiliation fees violate…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Compo. cut as miners' death rate rises
Tribune · Wednesday 19 September 1962 · page 11
ALTHOUGH the death rate in the NSW coalmining industry so far this year equals the notoriously high death rates in Japan and South…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Govt. mine sellout hands US monopoly huge profit gift
Tribune · Wednesday 19 September 1962 · page 4
BRISBANE: The 22-fold increase in Bowen Consolidated Coal Mines profit at Scottville-- from £4223 in 1960-61 to £93,084 in 1961-62 -- is one example of how monopolist interests have benefited from the State Government's closedown and sellout of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners save matron's job
Tribune · Wednesday 26 September 1962 · page 12
WOLLONGONG: Swift action by miners, nurses and domestic staff forced the Coledale Hospital Board…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miners' leaders re-elected
Tribune · Wednesday 26 September 1962 · page 11
SYDNEY: The leading officers of the Miners' Federation--the General President (Mr. W. Parkinson) and General Secretary (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE 35 Hour Week Is Urgent Need Parkinson replies to coal owner
Tribune · Wednesday 26 September 1962 · page 11
THE Miners' General President, Mr. W. Parkinson, has issued a sharp reply to an attack by mine owners' representative Sir Edgar Warren on the Australian Council of Trade Unions demand for a 35-hour week…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Automation in the Lorraine Coal Mines
Le Courrier Australien · Friday 28 September 1962 · page 4
IN an effort to improve their output efficiency, the coal mines in the Lorraine basin recently asked the Compagnie Française de T.S.F. to install automatic equipment in the large coal loading centre at the Freyming washing depot which has a daily capacity of 15,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fight to Save State Coal Mine
Tribune · Wednesday 3 October 1962 · page 8
LITHGOW: The Combined Mining Unions at the Lithgow State Mine have discussed a campaign to save the mine…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Synagogue Reaches Only One - THIRD Gold Coast Reflections
The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 12 October 1962 · page 5
The First Annual Report published by the Gold Coast Hebrew Congregation recently confirms the solid foundation upon which a Syuagogue and Jewish community has been established in the heart…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →First ever gold strike at school ?
The Biz · Wednesday 14 November 1962 · page 2
Fairfield Boys High School has created many records in many fields since its establishment in the late 1950's. However, last week the school came near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' call for action to save coal industry
Tribune · Wednesday 21 November 1962 · page 12
SYDNEY: Workers in the coal mining industry face a worse situation today than at any time during the past few years, despite the loss of 8500 men from the industry. THIS declaration was made by…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miners Condemn War Spending
Tribune · Wednesday 5 December 1962 · page 3
SYDNEY.--The Central Council of the Miners' Federation, meeting in Sydney recently, expressed its disgust at the increasing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Painters, miners re-elect leaders
Tribune · Wednesday 5 December 1962 · page 9
BRISBANE: All officials of the Queensland branch of the Painters' Union and the executive of the Queensland Miners' Union…
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