The maritime strike which appeared inevitable yesterday has been averted. Two more strike leaders, Messrs. Andrew Gray and Amram Lewis, were arrested yesterday morning. ...
Article : 411 wordsMr. J. Trefle, M.L A. for Castlereagh, delivered an address from the Royal Hotel balcony at Saturday night on the nationalisation of coalmines. The speaker was subjected to ...
Article : 45 wordsAfter Mr. Hughes' meeting on Saturday evening a social function was held at the Helensburgh Workmen's Social and Literary Club. Mr. G. Smith (president or the ...
Article : 165 wordsThe charge of conspiracy laid against certain strike leaders is what is known as a misdemeanour at common law. It is alleged that they conspired to do an unlawful act. If ...
Article : 101 wordsThe two delegates of the Miners' Federation who last week visited the construction works on the North Coast line to obtain assistance for the miners returned to Newcastle to-day. ...
Article : 182 wordsIn the Industrial Court yesterday afternoon, before his Honor Judge Heydon in application was made on behalf of the Attorney-General for the State of New South Wales for ...
Article : 858 wordsThe Premier was waited upon at the Albany last night by the Lord Mayor, Alderman Allen Taylor, on behalf of a party of commercial men, who represented to him the ...
Article : 112 wordsA rumour is current to-day that the Metropolitan mine is about to start operations for the purpose of supplying the railways with coal. ...
Article : 29 wordsWhen the wharf-labourers' meeting last night ended Mr. Hughes said the resolution had been passed, and then made a statement. Mr. Hughes was clearly delighted with the ...
Article : 186 words"The statement that the southern miners' officials intended meeting the southern mineowners with a view to a settlement, is absolutely unfounded," said Mr. Hughes last night, ...
Article : 51 wordsA general meeting of the United Furniture Trades was held in the Trades Hall last night, and a l[?]vy was struck for the assistance of the women and children affected by the strike. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Strike Congress did nothing yesterday. The delegates met at 2 p.m., and then adjourned until 10.30 to-day, to give the northern delegates a chance to attend the meeting. ...
Article : 120 wordsThe president, secretary, and treasurer of the Eskbank Ironworkers' Association met the secretary and treasurer of the Western Miners' Association to-day, and had an ...
Article : 636 wordsThe Trolley, Draymen, and Carters' Union committee passed a vote of £75 last night towards the fund for the families of the miners in distressed circumstances. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Victorian branch of the Musicians" Union of Australia to-day voted £10 to the Newcastle miners as a first instalment to their relief fund. ...
Article : 53 wordsMr Holman, M.L.A., Deputy-leader of the Parliamentary Labour party, expressed great satisfaction last night when informed of the result of the wharf-labourers' meeting. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Australian Gaslight Company yesterday bought the coal on two ships in the harbour, which, taken with the cargo of the Lac[?], will give Sydney its gas for an additional ...
Article : 278 wordsA meeting of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association will be held to-day in Newcastle. It is said that the appointment of Mr. Forsyth by Judge Heydon on the Industrial ...
Article : 167 wordsInspector Sykes at Maitland has reported to Superintendent Saunders here that a dynamite outrage took place at Pelaw Main on Friday night. The report states that at 10.40 ...
Article : 171 wordsThe meeting, it is understood, was forced by a minor strike which took place on the Circular Quay in the morning. Through some misapprehension a gang arranged to work at ...
Article : 359 wordsAndrew Gray, general secretary of the Federated Coal and Shale Workers' Federation of Australia, and secretary of the strike congress, was arrested yesterday morning. ...
Article : 443 wordsAt a meeting of the Rockchoppers' Union last night a resolution was carried:—"That in the opinion of this meeting the arrest of the leaders of the Miners' Federation is unjust ...
Article : 59 wordsA petition lodged with the Registrar of the Conciliation and Arbitration Court, Mr. Stewart was before Mr. Justice Isaacs, as a Judge of the Commonwealth Conciliation and ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Ebbw Main and Young Wallsend mines are both working two shifts, and to-morrow the manager of the Young Wallsend states that he will be able to start the third shift, ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Wharf Labourers' Union, amid a wild uproar, in the Oddfellows' Hall, Elizabeth-street, last night, decided not to come out on strike. ...
Article : 1,025 wordsA conference between representatives of the Australian Gaslight Company and the Lord Mayor was held at the Town Hall yesterday in refernce to the fixing of kerosene lamp[?] ...
Article : 285 wordsA meeting of the Seamen's Union was hold last night in the Trades Hall, and lasted over three hours. The social room was crowded, and several speeches were delivered in which ...
Article : 170 wordsThe belief that preparations are being made for working at least one of the mines, if not more, on the northern fields with free labour is gaining ground, but no information can be ...
Article : 256 wordsThe executive of the New Zealand Miners' Federation are assembled at Wellington conferring on the strike at the State coalmines. The Point Elizabeth case will be submitted ...
Article : 399 wordsNothing on earth will induce the Coallumpers' Union to touch the Japanese coal—or any other foreign coal, for that matter. The meeting yesterday morning decided that. ...
Article : 1,109 wordsThe strike was referred to by several members of the House of Representatives to-day while the Estimates were under review. Mr. Mathews (Vic.), while discussing the ...
Article : 592 wordsUnless something happens to change the outlook it is almost a certainty that the railway services will have to be still further reduced. When the strike began early last month ...
Article : 307 wordsAt the police court this morning, Amram Lewis, treasurer of the Miners' Federation, who had been arrested at Curlewis, was brought up on a charge of conspiracy. ...
Article : 72 wordsAt a meeting of the South Grota miners this morning, a list of grievances which the men desire should be remedied before they return to work was prepared, and it was ...
Article : 94 wordsThe three accused men appeared at the police court this morning, before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M. Long before 10 o'clock a large crowd had assembled in front of the ...
Article : 1,127 wordsIn addition to the 50 foot police who were sent to Newcastle on Saturday night from Sydney, a batch of 30 mounted men, drawn from the country districts in the North, ...
Article : 91 wordsA railway journey under the present, reduced timotable is an undertaking which cannot be viewed with equanimity. The taking off of sleepers had increased the ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Secretary for Mines to-day received the following telegram from Mr. Stanley Hunter, officer in charge of operations at the State coal mine, Powlett River:—"Men are ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 7 Dec 1909, Page 7
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