For some time past butchers, employed in shops have been agitating to have part of Saturday off. Several conferences on the matter have been held between delegates from the ...
Article : 230 wordsPeople who have growled about the heat during the past week have really nothing to make a noise over. The man who flounders around in a state of semi-collapse when the ...
Article : 635 wordsMr. Hickey, secretary of the Federation of Labor, received a lengthy cable from Mr. Hughes controverting the suggestion of the employers that the Federation would not accept ...
Article : 352 wordsMr. Asquith endorsed the younger Pitt's declaration that the quality most needed in a Premier was not eloquence, knowledge, or industry, but patience. ...
Article : 570 wordsA more unsoldierly and disgraceful spectacle than that presented during the entraining of the 5th Infantry Brigade which broke camp at Liverpool yesterday afternoon, it has never ...
Article : 823 wordsEarly on Saturday morning a serious railway disaster, was narrowly averted at Rydal. It appears that a goods train from Bathurst was standing at the platform waiting for a ...
Article : 260 wordsA conference at Swindon between the management of the Great Western Railway Company and the national and local railway men and officials, has settled the strike. ...
Article : 135 wordsAt Bryan in Texas the Brazos River overflowed its banks, marooning 1000 people. They are suffering intensely from cold and hunger, and are sheltering in the tree tops. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Building Trades' Federation of N.S.W., through its secretary, Mr. F. L. Parker, has informed the affiliated unions that at a recent meeting the following resolutions were ...
Article : 208 wordsExtraordinary prison barbarities, alleged to have been practised here, have been told of in in an investigation into the management of prisons. ...
Article : 137 wordsIn connection with the journey of Sir George Reid, High Commissioner, from Melbourne to Sydney a few weeks ago, we had occasion to comment upon the fact that no special ...
Article : 166 wordsThe opinion on recent developments of the official spokesman of the Wharf Laborers' Union—the secretary, Mr. "Jock" Woods—was not available yesterday. On several visits the ...
Article : 349 words"The gloves are off!" declares an official notice to members of the Australian Workers' Union, in reference to the opposition of the rural employers' associations to settling the ...
Article : 310 wordsDelegates to the British Medical Association have rejected the council's proposal to form a fighting fund by voluntary subscriptions, which were estimated to yield £40,000 a year. ...
Article : 98 wordsThe defeat of the Watt Government was by no means unexpected. Ever since last election a good deal of unrest and dissatisfaction has prevailed among that section of the supporters ...
Article : 374 wordsMaster Ross Wheatley, one of the two successful South Australian candidates for admission to the Royal Naval College at the recent examinations, was coached by Mr. M. ...
Article : 434 wordsThe Kaiser, after consultation with the Imperial Chancellor, Herr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the Statthalter of the Reichsland, Count "Wedel, and the Commandant of the troops in ...
Article : 280 wordsRepresentatives of the Federated Furnishing Trade Societies in the various States report to the following effect:—Sydney: "Cabinet-makers in very fair demand; polishers very ...
Article : 147 wordsAfter four days of sharp fighting between gendarmes and tribesmen, the former have, cleared the road from Shiraz to Bushire. They hanged three of the fomenters of the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe fact that it was Election Day yesterday doubtless contributed to the quietness around the wharves. As some people have a dread of travelling or doing anything special on a ...
Article : 419 wordsLONDON, Saturday Morning.—The "Sporting Life" states that Inman has reconsidered his decision not to contest the billiard championship, and may play, after all. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt the Victorian Asociation Regatta, held to-day on the Yarra, the senior fours was won by Albert Park, with Essendon second. Banks won the pairs, the Civil Service being second. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Operative Bakers will hold their annual meeting on Tuesday week, when officers will be elected. The inter-State voting on the question of daywork will also be discussed. ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, Saturday Morning.—The deaths are announced of Lord Napier and Ettrich, and the Hon. George William Spencer Lyttleton, who was at one time private secretary to Mr. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Civil Ambulance had a very busy day yesterday. Commencing with the motor smash shortly after 12 a.m., they did not ease up till midday. After conveying Mr. MacLaughlin to ...
Article : 479 wordsThe last report of the secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, Mr. D. E. Black, says that in this State last month there has been a slight improvement, particularly in the wiring section. ...
Article : 83 wordsThirty thousand men have been rendered idle in the South Wales mines. DENVER (Colorado), Friday Night. Terrific snowstorms are raging along the ...
Article : 171 wordsThe city as well as the rural organiser does not always meet with the glad hand from employers. Mr. P. Upton, of the Federated Furnishing Trade Societies, gives in the union ...
Article : 60 wordsThe suffragettes have turned Kelly House, a ine mansion in Wemyss Bay. Parties of suffragettes have also picketed all the prisons where Mrs. Pankiiurst is likely to be ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. G.A. Elmslie, leader of the State Opposition, was to-day commissioned by Lieutenant-Governor Madden to form a Ministry in succession to the West Administration. ...
Article : 176 wordsThe award of the Watchmen, Caretakers, and Cleaners' Board is practically complete, and will be gazetted in the near future. ...
Article : 24 wordsSir George Reid, High Commissioner, arrived at Brisbane to-day. He was met by the members of the Ministry, and taken to Government House, where he is the guest of the ...
Article : 109 wordsThe bloodstock sales at Newmarket closed today. There were 713 lots, in all realising 308,658 guineas, which is a record. LONDON, Saturday Morning. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe employees of Huddart, Parker, Limited, had a holiday yesterday when the annual picnic was held. It was a well-earned respite after the worries in despatching steamers in the past ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 wordsThe Unionists in Dublin regard the proclamation as the Government's recognition of the seriousness of the situation in Ulster, and the prelude to the taking of all possible steps to ...
Article : 91 wordsThe funeral of the late Second-Lieutenant S. O. N. Anderson, of the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery, whose body was recovered from the Harbor on Friday, took place ...
Article : 87 wordsThe date of the by-election at Kalgoorlie (W.A.) for the return of a member to the House of Representatives to represent the above constituency, rendered vacant through ...
Article : 61 wordsThere was but one case of smallpox reported yesterday, and that was discovered late on Friday night, the victim being an infant from a house in Union-street, Newtown. ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 7 Dec 1913, Page 14
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