20,000 strike over mine leader's murder
WASHINGTON: Within two days of the murder of mineworkers union reform champion Joseph Yablonski and his…
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24 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2
Shorter Week As Miners' 1970 Aim
SYDNEY: A shorter working week has been set as one of the main aims of the Miners' Federation for 1970. The Federation's general president, Mr. W. Smart, has…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bernie Gold's Sporting Times
Presenting a new regular Jewish sporting column by BERNIE GOLD, one of Sydney’s leading all-round sportsmen and Australian Maccabiah representative. TOP Jewish sprinter and…
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Presenting a new regular Jewish sporting column by BERNIE GOLD, one of Sydney’s leading all-round sportsmen and Australian Maccabiah representative. Manager of the NSW Perth…
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HAKOAH has invited three players to represent the club in the Ampol Sprint during the football competition…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →UIA receives mining shares
A prominent UIA supporter has given a novel and topical contribution to the forthcoming United…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners to 'build a coffin' for 40-hr. week
SYDNEY: "We're out on strike to build a coffin for the 40-hour week" was how one mineworker described last week's stop on the NSW Southern District coalfield. In decisions of the highest…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Miners' Federation of Australia
THE Miners' Federation sends May Day greetings to the Australian working people and the people of other countries, especialy Vietnam. Miners have traditionally played a leading part in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Signs of the times at King Solomon's mines
King Solomon's mines ore working again. At Wadi Timna, on the edge of Israel's scorching Negev desert copper ore is being won from the ground worked by the king's men nearly 3,000 years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →BOOKS at a glance Miners
AUSTRALIANS have developed a greater sense of their own history during the Cook bi-centenary…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sporting Times Bernie Gold
SO the South African cricket tour of England is off and with it the chance for Ali Bacher to become…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →New W. Mining victim
PERTH: Another man has been killed in a Western Mining Corporation mine, making two deaths in as many weeks. The first death led to a stoppage, and a promise by the company of improved safety. But 14 days later an underground…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gold medal award to speedboat champion
A Guildford businessman and speedboat driver has been awarded the Union of International Motorboating Gold Medal for 1969. He is 65-year-old Ernie Munn, of Clyde Street…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Award for Speedboat Champion
ABOVE: Speedboat champion, Eric Nunn,. displays some of the trophies he has won. In 1969 Nunn won every championship event he entered in his boat "Wasp Too"…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mines Action If Owners Won't Cut Weeklyhours
SYDNEY: Mineworkers' leaders began negotiations with coalowners' representatives this week backed by the militant determination of the rank-and-file to win the 35-hour week, by all-out direct action by the 13,500 NSW mine workers if need be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Strictly femirire 'Gold in Jerusalem'
This is how Yurika Mann describes her own paintings in the travelling exhibition of Israeli artists she has…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mining Hours Inquiry
SYDNEY: Judge Gallagher (Coal Industry Tribunal) last week reserved his decision on the inquiry into a 35-hour week in the mining industry. Mineworkers have been campaigning militantly, including…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Drivers prepare for 'gold' series 37 ENTRIES
Inter-state interest in the Warwick Farm Gold Star meeting is extremely high. No less than 37 separate entries…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Meriton Goes Into Mining
Meriton Properties Limited, well known Sydney home-unit developers, whose chairman is Mr. H. O. Triguboff, has gone into the mining field by floating a new mining company, Kimberley Mineral Holdings Limited…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →They Searched For Gold -- And Struck Gear!
A year ago Colin and Nancy Scattergood joined an expedition to look for the lost treasure of the Conquistadors, high in the Peruvian Andes. At 17,000 feet Colin, and a Peruvian guide, found a cave with…
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