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Mining & the mines, 1984

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Gold Top Tenpins

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 July 1984 · page 22

Top game in the Maccabi Tenpin Club at St Leonards Bowl, last Sunday night went to Baron Gold with a…

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Yachting — Israel’s only hope for an Olympic gold

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 July 1984 · page 23

TEL AVIV: A much coveted Olympic medal may finally come Israel’s way — depending on performances on a stretch of the Pacific Ocean. It is the yachtsmen Eytan…

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Herzog’s Hope for L.a. Gold

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 July 1984 · page 28

JERUSALEM: Israel’s President, Chaim Herzog, last week told members of the Israeli…

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Liberty Equality Bolidarity Support the MINERS

Tribune · Wednesday 1 August 1984 · page 5

The British miners' strike, now in its fifth month, is about to escalate into a new stage following Thatcher's latest move in using anti-union legislation in an attempt tb break the miners. The High Court this week issued an injunction against the South…

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Mines in Red Sea

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 August 1984 · page 1

JERUSALEM: Israel is seriously concerned with the apparent mining of the Red Sea which resulted in the sinking of a Liberian-registered tanker on the…

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Gold From Tiffany

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 August 1984 · page 28

American Jewish swimmer, Tiffany Cohen, set a new Olympic record when she…

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Gold for Gaylord!

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 August 1984 · page 28

The 1981 Maccablah champion, Mitch Gaylord, has added his name to the list of…

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Support the British Miners

Tribune · Wednesday 15 August 1984 · page 4

Ninety-one years apart the message remains the same... Above: the military at Orgreave pit during the lockout of 1893. "Over-production" was the spark for the dispute; management wanted to…

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Support the British Miners Fund

Tribune · Wednesday 22 August 1984 · page 4

The British Miners are now entering the sixth month of their heroic struggle to prevent pit closures and save jobs in the mining industry. Despite the police-state tactics employed by the…

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CPA pledges support for Coalcliff miners

Tribune · Wednesday 22 August 1984 · page 4

At a specially convened meeting on Saturday, August 18, 1984, the South Coast District Committee of the Communist Party of Australia pledged the Party's moral and physical support to the struggle against the proposed retrenchment at Coalcliff colliery…

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Temporary reprieve for miners following Deputation to minister

Tribune · Wednesday 22 August 1984 · page 4

Miners at Kembla Coal and Coke (KCC) mines at Coalcliff and Darkes Forrest on the South Coast of NSW received a reprieve on retrenchment notices following a deputation to the NSW Minister for Resources and…

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Mine Blast Death

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 August 1984 · page 11

Israeli Chief of Staff Moshe Levy stands atop an armored personnel carrier shortly after it…

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Kookatha people continue their fight against mine management

Tribune · Wednesday 29 August 1984 · page 3

The treatment of the Kookatha people, the traditional owners of the Olympic Dam area, by the Roxby Downs…

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The British Miners' Strike Bastard Off- Spring of Decay

Tharunka · Tuesday 4 September 1984 · page 7

The British miners' strike is now entering its twenty-sixth week. The outcome is no more certain now than when the strike began. Ostensibly, the issue is pit closures. Ian MacGregor, head of the National Coal Board, early this year announced a plan to close twenty pits and shed twenty thousand jobs over the following twelve months. He also…

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Miners

Tribune · Wednesday 5 September 1984 · page 4

Striking British miners, locked in struggle with the Thatcher government for over six months, this week converged on Brighton to receive well-earned support from the British Trade Union Congress (TUC)…

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Miners Us miners fight hack against unemployment

Tribune · Wednesday 5 September 1984 · page 5

The job crisis in coal mining is not only hitting Australian and British miners. In France, miners are fighting against the…

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Miners' struggles -- Sth African style

Tribune · Wednesday 5 September 1984 · page 5

Black miners in South Africa currently earn US $198 a month compared with B US$1265 for white miners. A…

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COAL Plans to decimate a workforce

Tribune · Wednesday 5 September 1984 · page 5

The six months long British miners' strike has so far cost the Thatcher government about $2,500 million. However, it's…

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IRELAND British miners give solidarity to Irish struggle

Tribune · Wednesday 5 September 1984 · page 6

Malcolm Pitt, president of the Kent National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), who was in Australia…

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Gold Coast Chevra

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 September 1984 · page 5

SURFERS PARADISE: The rapidly growing Gold Coast Hebrew Congregation has…

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