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100 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 5
As Tribune goes to press talks are stil going on between the National Coal Board and striking British miners represented by their union the NUM. The Thatcher government is under increasing pressure to meet the miners' demands not to close 20 pits and cut 20,000 jobs. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The future of Victoria's brown coal resources has long been the subject of heated debate. David White's ministerial announcement of July…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Talks on the British miners' strike broke down again last week and NUM president Arthur Scargill said the six month strike could go on for "a long time". TUC chiefs will meet this week with transport, steel and power unions to coordinate support for the miners. With winter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY: Coal miners on the South Coast at Kembla Coke and Coal and BP Clutha mines received a six months reprieve…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Watty and Agnes Doig are the central figures in the film Strikebound. To mark the opening of Strikebound, we publish an edited version of an…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →How long were you out? About six weeks! The Wonthaggi Miners Union helped support us and the women had a soup kitchen. We lost that struggle. It was the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The National Coal Board gave some indications during the now defunct talks with the British miners union that the Board at least could be willing to make concessions in order to bring the strike, now in its 29th week, to an end. It apparently dropped its hard posed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rabbi Richard Hirsch, executive director of the World Union of Progressive Judaism, met the Gold…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TEL AVIV: The 39 athletes of the Israel team to the Para-Olympic Games for the Disabled returned here from England last week with a bag of 29 medals, including nine gold and 15…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Margaret Kirkby reports on a 15,000-strong London rally supporting the British miners' struggle held on August 11 last, organised by Women Against Pit Closures. Miners and their families came to London from mining…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This week's fine response to Tribune's British Miners Fund comes as news is received that the British Labour Party Congress overwhelmingly condemned the Thatcher government's brutal use of police violence against the strikers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Members of Wollongong Out of Workers (WOW) have collected $87 for the Tribune British Miners Fund, all from unemployed people. Handing over the cheque to CPA organiser George McIlroy, WOW treasurer Shane Raferty said WOW regarded the British miners fight against Thatcherism as their fight. "Unemployment in Australia is a direct result of international capitalism's attack on the working class",…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal mining unions are stepping up their campaign for a Coal Marketing Authority as a key issue in the struggle to save…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hurley Taylor (NSW) $5, MM (Qld) $5, c- VC(Qld)$l0, MD(Qld)$7 WH Newtown (NSW) $5, G Griffith (Vic) $10, Dixon St Front Office Collection (NS W) $10, AR&LR (Vic) $10, Laurie Aarons (NS W) $ 10 Les fry (NSW) $10, BF (NSW) $5, Wally Hall (NSW) $5, E Lahiff (NSW) $5…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The 15,000 strong National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (NADOCS) will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lynn is from Melbourne. While in Britain, she went to Nottinghamshire which, she says, is particularly interesting because it "is the county" with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →This week's fund is boosted by $500 donated by comrade LB of Adelaide. It comes from money saved for a holiday trip that he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oh dear. There were moments when this film teetered on the brink of the deliciously tasteless So Bad Its Good category, but it unfortunately righted…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →This week's Tribune British Miners Fund donations amount to $602.15, bringing the total to $5,753.85. WH Newtown (NSW) $5, Max Thomas (NSW) $5, F Bate (NSW) $5, John Paul Esposito (NSW) $20, Michael Parsons (NT) $50, Janet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An imaginative Gold Coast developer has decided to add a whole new dimension to Gold Coast living with penthouses at…
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