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  • A.C.T.U. May Move In High Court If Margins Case Not Reopened MELBOURNE, Tuesday.

    A special meeting of the A.C.T.U. emergency committee will be called within the next few days to discuss the reported refusal of the Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. Galvin, to re-onen the metal trades' margins case. ... [Article] (373 words)
  • DOCKERS RESUME WORK AFTER WARNING MELBOURNE, Tuesday.

    Unless ship painters and dockers stage another ban or strike, the Chief Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. Mooney, will not vary ... [Article] (236 words)
  • SUDDEN STRIKE ON WATERFRONT SYDNEY, Tuesday.

    The port of Sydney was thrown Idle to-day by a sudden strike of 16,200 waterside workers. The men will return to work ... [Article] (143 words)
  • FIRST POWER BAN IN MELBOURNE MELBOURNE, Tuesday.

    The State Electricity Commission's power ban came into force to-day, bringing industry in vast areas of Melbourne to a ... [Article] (78 words)
  • Prisoner Exchange Now Major Issue MUNSAN, Tuesday.

    Early resumption of the vital prisoner exchange talks, which might break the Korean armistice deadlock, is expected, following the return of Vice-Admiral T[?] Joy and Rear-Admiral R.E. ... [Article] (346 words)
  • 1400 Watersider Dismissed In W.A. PERTH, Tuesday.

    About 1400 waterside workers were dismissed by waterfront labour employers at Fremantle tonight when they refused to ... [Article] (169 words)
  • ATTEMPT TO SHOOT WIFE ALLEGED MELBOURNE, Tuesday.

    Wangaratta police to-day arrested William Henry Vivian, 37, of Tarawingee, near Wangaratta and charged him with shooting ... [Article] (67 words)
  • CENSURE IN S.AFRICA

    Mr. J. G. N. Strauss, Leader of the Opposition, to-day accused Dr. Malan's Government of "flouting the law of the land" ... [Article] (79 words)
  • BY SURF SKI TO NEWCASTLE SYDNEY, Tuesday.

    A Sydney engineer paddled a surf ski through Sydney Heads to-night on his way to Newcastle. ... [Article] (96 words)
  • Hydrogen Bomb Test Likely At Eniwetok WASHINGTON, Tuesday.

    The United States will make the first test of its controversial hydrogen bomb, believed many times more powerful than the atom bomb, at Eniwetok testing, ground in the Pacific in about five months' time, informed sources said. ... [Article] (174 words)
  • 20,000 FAMILIES LEAVE HOMES IN U.S.FLOODS OMAHA (Nebraska), Tups.

    Missouri River Valley floods, covering more than a million and a quarter acres of nine States from North Dakota to Southern ... [Article] (113 words)
  • COUNCIL REFUSES TO DISCUSS TUNIS ISSUE NEW YORK, Tuesday.

    The United Nations Security Council last night refused an Asian-African request to consider the French- Tunisian dispute. ... [Article] (179 words)
  • MR. WARD WANTS WORLD LABOUR PEACE PLAN SYDNEY, Tuesday.

    Mr. E. J. Ward, M.P., said to-day that he would ask the A.L.P. to call all British Commonwealth Labour parties ... [Article] (202 words)
  • BUS TOURISTS RESCUED BY ROWING BOAT SYDNEY, Tuesday.

    Police early this morning used a rowing boat to rescue, 27 passengers and the driver from the roof of a tourist coach which had ... [Article] (287 words)
  • RAIL STRIKERS GO BACK TOMORROW AS TALKS PLANNED SYDNEY, Tuesday.

    N.S.W. railway services may be restored to normal next weck-end, following a settlement to-day of the strike of turners and fillers. The Director of Transport, Mr. Winsor, ... [Article] (587 words)
  • SCREENING OF SCIENTISTS FOR WOOMERA TESTS LONDON, Tuesday.

    Two hundred British scientists now being chosen for atomic weapon experiments in Australia next September, ... [Article] (195 words)
  • STRICT SECRECY ON "ATOMIC" SHIPS PERTH, Tuesday.

    Strict security precautions will be observed when two British tank landing ships, with men and equipment for the ... [Article] (127 words)
  • N. JERSEY VITAL PRIMARY VOTE TO BE CLOSE NEW YORK, Tuesday.

    Supporters of General Dwight Eisenhower, Senator Robert Taft, of Ohio, and Mr. Harold Stassen ended their campaigns last night with newspaper, broadcasting and television appeals ... [Article] (362 words)
  • STATE JOBS NOT DISCUSSED SYDNEY, Tuesday.

    State Cabinet to-day did not discuss appointments to fill key vacancies in a number of statutory bodies. ... [Article] (141 words)
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  • TWO ESCAPE IN TASMANIAN AIR CRASH LAUNCESTON, Tuesday.

    A Tiger Moth aeroplane crashed at Sheffield, on the NorthWest Coast this afternoon, but the pilot and passenger escaped ... [Article] (95 words)
  • FIVE SEEK INDIAN PRESIDENT NEW DELHI, Tuesday.

    An Indian who claims that London police arrested him for [?] a Congress Party tricolour on the India House in ... [Article] (116 words)
  • Iberian Defence Discussions MADRID, Tuesday.

    General Franco and the Portuguese Premier, Dr. Salazar, met secretly last night near the Spanish frontier for talks believed ... [Article] (94 words)
  • WEAVER REJECTS JAP. WOMEN TOKYO, Tuesday.

    Frank Loyal Weaver, former Australian serviceman, who illegally returned to Japan seven times, said to-day he is being ... [Article] (158 words)

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