It has been a cold and dry Easter in England. Owing to the dislocation of the train service in consequence of the coal strike, the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Board of Trade has issued a circular to the Labour Exchanges, asking for applications from 1,000 unemployed to emigrate to Australia. The circular points out ...
Article : 89 wordsA party of strikers, while searching for coal in a disused mine at Nantymoel, Glamorganshire, had an unexpected experience. A huge fall of ground occurred, with the ...
Article : 74 wordsThe National Conference assembled yesterday to consider the question of the resumption of work in the collieries, referred to it by the Miners' Federation. ...
Article : 78 wordsNews from Illinois shows that the City of Cairo, situated at the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, is completely isolated by the great floods in that region. ...
Article : 181 wordsThe coalowners have resolutely declined to further discuss the demands of the enginemen and stokers in Monmouthshire and South Wales. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe members of the Young Australian League are now in Dublin. They have visited the old Irish House of Commons and House of Lords, and have been ...
Article : 41 wordsThe coal strikers at Newbridge, Monmouthshire, invaded the pitheads, and, in spite of police intervention, forced the strike breakers to cease work. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Quebec correspondent of The Daily Chronicle telegraphs regarding the naval policy of the Dominion. The correspondent says that it has been ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Unionist Party in the South African Parliament will discuss the resignation of Sir Starr Jameson on Wednesday. It is expected that Sir Thomas Smartt will be ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Scottish miners are divided. Thousands are anxious to get back to work, and unless the National Conference rejects the recommendation of the Miners' Federation ...
Article : 58 wordsSerious rioting in consequence of an attempt to cart coal has occurred at Pendlebury, Lancashire. The excited coalminers on strike ...
Article : 124 wordsThe utilization of army supplies for sufferers from the great floods has been authorized at the instance of President Taft. Congress is ready to provide monetary ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Bonar Law) was accorded a tumultuous welcome upon his arrival in Belfast, to take part in the Anti-Home Rule ...
Article : 81 wordsAt a meeting at Rotherham, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the miners were advised to imitate the boiler makers, and overthrow their leaders, on the ground that the ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. Vernon Hartshorn, who is a Socialist and represents the South Wales miners on the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, says continuation of the strike involves a ...
Article : 127 wordsThe appointment of Governors to Crown colonies from outside the Colonial Office has created dismay in the Service. The selection of an army officer to govern ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Percy H. Illingworth (Laberal member [?]er for the Shipley Division of Yorkshire, and a Junior Lord of the Treasury) has had a sensational experience in Wiltshire. ...
Article : 177 wordsAt many meetings of miners in Yorkshire the miners' leaders have been condemned for having ordered resumption of work until the District boards had fixed the ...
Article : 32 wordsA telegram from Hickman, Kentucky, states that 20 persons, who were marooned on tops of trees and housetops, have been rescued by boats, after all hope of rescue had ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Keir Hardie (Labour M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil), speaking at Doncaster, remarked that the refusal of the miners to return to work was suicidal. The miners ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Tagliche Rundschau, a leading Conservative journal, states that difficulty has arisen between Great Britain and Germany regarding the exchange of naval ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. James Haslam (Labour M.P. for the Chesterfield Division of-Derbyshire), speaking at Chesterfield, considered the miners must gracefully surrender. Nothing would ...
Article : 58 wordswork. It is considered probable that the Scottish miners did likewise. The minority in favour of continuing the struggle thus consisted of the districts in Yorkshire, ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois, is now rising to an alarming extent. Hundreds of men are working to prevent destruction of the water front levels. Acres of ...
Article : 90 wordsThe West Indian Trade Conference is reported to have resulted in favour of sweeping traiff changes in Canada and the British West Indies. ...
Article : 178 wordsOwing to the strike the receipts from 51 railways during the last week in March indicated a decrease of £747,060, compared with the corresponding period in 1911. The ...
Article : 57 wordsAdivices from Memphis, Tennessee, indicate that a crisis has been reached in connection with the floods on the Mississippi. If the dykes on the river in Arkansas. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of The Standard telegraphs that the German Imperial Chancellor (Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg) is closely studying the Taxation Acts in ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Times in in article on the present situation arising out of the coal strike, states that the cotton industry has been only slightly affected. This is due, it ...
Article : 93 wordsUp to last night it was estimated that 150,000 miners had returned to work. It is expected that the majority of the others who went on strike will resume duty at the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe German Imperial Chancellor (Dr. Bethmann von Hollweg) is on a visit to the Kaiser, who is yachting in these waters. The Chancellor is conferring with the ...
Article : 53 wordsResumption of work in the Durham and South Wales mines has been delayed by the attitude of the enginemen. The enginemen connected with the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent, in the Potteries, in a letters to the newspapers, asserts that the kind action of New South Wales has put heart into the ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Claude Grahame-White, the most famous, and one of the earliest of British aviators, narrowly escaped with his life this morning as the result of a fall with his ...
Article : 252 wordsHerr Haussmann (Leader of the South German Radicals) has initiated a campaign against Admiral von Tirpitz, the head of the Admiralty. He alleges that the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe March[?]oness of [?]mlithgow has presented her husband with twin sons. The accouchement took place at Hopetoun House, Linlithgowshire, and the mother and ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Vernon Hartshorn, in an address at Maestag, Wales, announced that preparations were being made for a labour movement of unprecedented magniture. The ...
Article : 188 wordsMany district meetings of minors have censured the executive of the federation for its recommendation to the National Conference in favour of resumption. ...
Article : 47 wordsA number of Liberal Churchmen, including the Bishops of Birmingham, Hereford, and Lincoln, and the Right Rev. Dr. Welldon (formerly Bishop of Calcutta), have ...
Article : 53 wordsBumon to the amount of £190,000 has been already recovered by divers from the wrecked P. & O. steamer Oceana, which sank off Eastbourne as the result of a ...
Article : 40 wordsSome men having been suspected of coalgetting at Newton Colliery. Dunfermline, a crowd of about 10,000 assembled at the colliery, and committed great havoc. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe revenues of the Dominion of Canada for the fiscal year show an increase on the previous period of £3,600,000. The total revenue was £26,400,000. The ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Duke of Argyll, Mr. Balfour. Mr. Bonar Law, and 1,157 Peers and members of the House of Commons, with other influential Scotsmen, have signed an appeal ...
Article : 112 wordsAt an executive meeting of the Timber Workers' Union on Thursday it was decided to give £100 towards relieving the distress among the coalminers of Great Britain. ...
Article : 39 wordsA telegram from Nome, Alaska, gives the result of the world's greatest dog team race, which took place from Nome to Candle and back, a total distance of 412 miles. ...
Article : 77 wordsTyneside coal merchants predict that there will be a permanent rise at from 1/6 to 2/ per ton on household coal, to cover the increased cost of production, owing to ...
Article : 56 wordsAt the Victorian Political Labour Councils annual conference to-day the following mo[?]ion was unanimously agreed to:—"That this conference, representing the ...
Article : 90 wordsReal-Admiral Peary (discoverer of the north pole in 1909) espresses his belief that Capt. Scott (leader of the British Antarctic Expedition) has been successful in ...
Article : 121 wordsThe death is announced, in her sixtyeighth year, of Emily Soldene, the well-known actress and novelist. She was born at Islington, and appeared first as a ...
Article : 155 wordsOn the subject of ecclesiastical reunion in Scotland the Duke of Argyll has penned a letter in which he approves of a general appeal to the Scottish public for support. ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. George Barker, a member of the Miners' Federation Executive, has hinted at the possibility of all classes of workers going out on strike again if the district ...
Article : 82 wordsA section of the National Conference, summoned to deal with the question of the coal miners' return to work, sharply criticised the action of the executive of the ...
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Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931), Sat 13 Apr 1912, Page 42
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