The European delegates to the Miners' Conference at Brussels have carried a resolution, by a majority of four, to the effect that the eight-hour system should be the subject of ...
Article : 474 wordsThe secretary of the Australian Labour Federation (Mr. A. Hinchcliffe) sent a letter on Wednesday to the Employers' Association asking them to appoint representatives to meet in ...
Article : 75 wordsIt is estimated that between 350 and 370 men connected with the Queensland Amalgamated Operative Boot Trade Union are now out on strike. This union only includes the ...
Article : 91 wordsThe men state that they have been forced to take the determined action they have done for several reasons. They feel that socially they are not the equals of those engaged in other ...
Article : 311 wordsA mass meeting of the Queensland Amalgamated Operative Bootmaker's Union w&s held is the Oddfellows Hall. Charlotte street, at 10 a m[?]on Wednesday. There was a large ...
Article : 772 wordsThe shop secretaries interviewed the employers on Wednesday, and no satisfactory settlement being arrived at, the men under instructions from the Australian Labour Federation ...
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Advertising : 376 wordsAll the shops from whence men are out on strike are now closely watched by representatives of the union, and tho employment of non-unionists will be immediately reported to ...
Article : 37 wordsA telegram received here from Mildura, Victoria, this morning, is as follows:—"A meeting of the members of the union was held on Wednesday evening when the rules of the ...
Article : 205 wordsThe clickers, blockers, and machinists do not appear to have been affected by the strike, they continued their work at the several factories as though so strike had taken place. But it must ...
Article : 1,079 wordsThe bootmakers of Brisbane have for more than three months past been agitating for an increase in the prices paid on all classes of work in the boot factories, and negotiations ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Sat 31 May 1890, Page 21
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