Qld. Miners Act on Pit Closures
Tribune · Wednesday 24 January 1968 · page 10
BRISBANE: Over 300 Ipswich-Rosewood coalminers last week, during a 48-hour strike, held a meeting and march here in protest at State Government inaction against mine closures and unemployment of mineworkers. It was a vigorous and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Saboteurs use Chinese mines
The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 January 1968 · page 1
Two Chinese-manufactured mines were used by saboteurs to blow up the small office adjoining the regional water…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Voor De Twieners How to look for gold and find nothing
Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 9 February 1968 · page 3
Trove gives no preview of this one. Open it to read the story on the page.
Continued on Trove, page 3 →US drops gold note backing
Tribune · Wednesday 21 February 1968 · page 9
In a desperate attempt to shore up the sagging dollar, the US Congress has approved President Johnson's request to abolish the 25 per cent gold backing of America's paper currency…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Professor Pierre Hugon wins the Gold Medal of the I.N.
Le Courrier Australien · Friday 23 February 1968 · page 4
Professor was once a naval officer and is now and secretary general…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Weight in gold
The Biz · Thursday 14 March 1968 · page 3
The Commonwealth Bank branch at the Royal Easter Show this year will feature a "worth your weight in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the industrial scene Miners make Mitsui retract insults
Tribune · Wednesday 20 March 1968 · page 10
BRISBANE: Strike action by Moura (Central Queensland) mineworkers last week threw VIP celebrations into confusion and forced a public apology from a prominent representative of Japanese monopoly who had insulted them. The occasion was the opening of the Government-built…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →West faces crash from U.S. policies Gold Crisis: the Real Reasons
Tribune · Wednesday 20 March 1968 · page 1
THE deep crisis, which exploded last week in the capitalist world's financial system, threatens the livelihood of millions of people, including Australians. Far from being due to the "anti-Americanism" of General De Gaulle, or…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The great gold rush: a study in capitalist chaos
Tribune · Wednesday 27 March 1968 · page 10
THE COLLAPSE of sterling and the recent gold raid on the dollar are a striking demonstration of the truth of Lenin's thesis: that imperialism is moribund capitalism that takes the contradictions of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Make mine mink
The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 March 1968 · page 1
Fur has a vast emotional appeal to today’s woman. Its appeal (or lack of it) to men is largely financial. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold, dollars and "shinplasters" the Gold Crisis
Tribune · Wednesday 3 April 1968 · page 8
"SHINPLASTERS" was the term applied to the personal notes put into circulation by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The politics of gold
Tribune · Wednesday 3 April 1968 · page 11
Your timely and valuable main story (20368) and editorial on the gold crisis was most welcome. But I think…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →“Button Mine”
The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 April 1968 · page 7
The “button mine” (approximately life-size) is shown above. These mines, manufactured in China, are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Emotional Thinking on Gold"
Tribune · Wednesday 17 April 1968 · page 11
Vic Williams' letter on "the politics of gold" (Tribune, April 3) is a prize example of the confused, emotional…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Coal Production
Le Courrier Australien · Friday 19 April 1968 · page 4
h In 1967 production of Charbonnages de France can be estimated at 49,428,900 Ions h…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Market price of gold
Tribune · Wednesday 24 April 1968 · page 11
Let me assure Gordon Murray that my statement (Tribune 3468) "the fixed price of gold is below its real value,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Our own paper gold
Tribune · Wednesday 1 May 1968 · page 7
Finding ourselves in a position analogous to that of the United States, in having a permanently adverse…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →USA and the gold crisis
Tribune · Wednesday 15 May 1968 · page 11
You cannot take away a man's leg and expect him to walk; or take half a sentence and expect it to make sense…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Death in the mine
Tribune · Wednesday 26 June 1968 · page 5
EIGHT mineworkers in NSW and one in Queensland killed in 5½ months -- four of them…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine warning to children
The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 July 1968 · page 3
Jerusalem police have taken a series of precautions to safeguard the city’s children during the summer holidays, with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →