Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Mining & the mines, all years

Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1963

40 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2

Mineworkers' Strike Against Foreign Mining Trusts Unions Won't Be Trampled on

Tribune · Wednesday 30 January 1963 · page 5

BRISBANE: Strike action by Combined Mining Unions members at Moura last week has given a sharp demonstration to the Thiess-Peabody-Mitsui interests that the workers will not permit them to trample over Australian trade union principles…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

ALP calls for probe into coal industry

Tribune · Wednesday 20 February 1963 · page 12

SYDNEY: The New South Wales Executive of the Australian Labor Party last Friday night decided to ask the State Government to appoint a Select Committee to investigate, among other things, "the…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Steel, coal, building, transport Workers March Into Action

Tribune · Wednesday 20 February 1963 · page 1

Against a background of rising unemployment last week workers in the coal, steel, building, transport and white collar industries went into action against employers' attacks, demanding improvements in…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Miners' Leaders Warn Japanese coal market weak economic reed

Tribune · Wednesday 27 February 1963 · page 11

The Central Council of the Miners' Federation last week again warned its members against any reliance on the Japanese coal market as a basis for economic security in the industry, and called for a…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Miners opposed to imperialism, colonialism and war

Tribune · Wednesday 27 February 1963 · page 10

SYDNEY: The Central Council of the Miners' Federation meeting last week, unanimously carried a resolution reaffirming "the…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Soviet wharfies back up French miners

Tribune · Wednesday 20 March 1963 · page 4

Following mass meetings of Soviet waterside workers at which they refused to load coal on ships going to France, the Soviet Government has proclaimed a moratorium on fulfillment of a Soviet…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Still Solid at Moura a wharfie writes on a miners' struggle

Tribune · Wednesday 20 March 1963 · page 10

Mr. C. L. Ferguson is secretary of the Gladstone Trades and Labor Council and the Gladstone Branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation. His story of the Moura struggle came in a letter to E. Roach, Assistant Federal Secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Wharfies back French miners

Tribune · Wednesday 3 April 1963 · page 4

SYDNEY: A stopwork meeting of the Sydney Branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation last week resolved to convey to the French…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Aust. miners back French strikers

Tribune · Wednesday 3 April 1963 · page 4

The Miners' Federation Executive and the national convention of the Miners' Women's Auxiliaries meeting in Sydney have sent messages to France expressing solidarity with the striking French miners and their wives…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Action during Miners' Women's Convention

Tribune · Wednesday 3 April 1963 · page 9

SYDNEY: Delegates from the National Convention of Miners' Women's Auxiliaries rolled up in force to meet the New South Wales Minister for Mines (Mr. Simpson) last week when they pressed for urgent action to alleviate…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

Moura Mine Strikers Solid After 4 12 Weeks

Tribune · Wednesday 3 April 1963 · page 12

BRISBANE: The 4 12 weeks' strike at Moura has been marked by a solid stand of Moura open-cut mine workers against the arrogance of American-Japanese-Australian monopoly and the red-baiting of State Government and Queensland…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Modern France Arts and Techniques the Reality of French Production in 1962 Coal Mining and Consumption

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 3 May 1963 · page 4

FRENCH coal consumption increased by more that 2 million tons in 1962, following increased demands for household heating and from…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Miners Back Wharfies

Tribune · Wednesday 15 May 1963 · page 1

A district wide 24-hour stoppage in support of the waterside workers was proposed at a pit top mee[?] of workers at Wongawilli…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Lithgow TLC has coal plan

Tribune · Wednesday 15 May 1963 · page 11

LITHGOW: A three-point program, aimed at providing employment on the Western coalfields, has been…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Gold Purchasing From the U.s

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 24 May 1963 · page 4

IN 1962, France requested delivery of $409,100,000 worth of gold from the United States. Great Britain was next with purchases of $387,000,000, followed…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Miners" protest to USA

Tribune · Wednesday 12 June 1963 · page 5

WOLLONGONG: The Nebo coal miners' at a pit top meeting sent a telegram to the United States Embassy in Canberra…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Golden mile miners mass

Tribune · Wednesday 19 June 1963 · page 1

PERTH: Over 1500 trade unionists packed Boulder (WA) Town Hall last Sunday to express opposition to employers' attempts to cut wages and deny them an extra week's leave. WORKERS came from Boulder,…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Greetings from Miners' Federation

Tribune · Wednesday 19 June 1963 · page 2

"The central executive, on behalf of members of the Federation, wish to extend to the Tribune our heartiest congratulations on this auspicious occasion of the 40th anniversary of its life…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Miners plan action for nationalisation of coal industry

Tribune · Wednesday 3 July 1963 · page 11

SYDNEY: The Central Council of the Miners' Federation, which met lest week in Sydney, called upon its members "to plan now for activity to achieve a nationalised industry." The council welcomed the decision of the New South Wales Cabinet to…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

The News in Brief Coal from Queensland

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 12 July 1963 · page 1

Trove gives no preview of this one. Open it to read the story on the page.

Continued on Trove, page 1 →