Although Mr. Justice Higgins has threatened to deprive the waterside workers of the preference clauses in their award if the men do not return to work by ...
Article : 99 wordsThis afternoon Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, Governor-General, inspected the new buildings at the Defence Department. ...
Article : 199 wordsThe first consignment of coal from the Wallarah colliery, which is being worked by volunteers, reached Sydney today. Two other ...
Article : 104 wordsA deputation from Wonthaggi today received a hint from Mr. H. S. W. Lawson, Minister for Education, that the permanency of the State coal mine ...
Article : 236 wordsMr. T. J. Ryan, the Premier, has sent a telegram to Mr. W. M. Hughes, in reply to the communication forwarded by the Prime Minister ...
Article : 214 wordsThe statement supplied to you on Saturday, that I called at the National Service Bureau, and offered the services of the boys of Xavier College, ...
Article : 332 wordsAlthough Mr. Justice Higgins has threatened to strike out the preference clauses in the waterside workers' award unless the men agree by tomorrow to ...
Article : 145 wordsYesterday 1413 tons of coal wore hauled from different collieries to Newcastle by train, and 1709 tons were shipped. ...
Article : 48 wordsMore trams were running today than at any period during the strike. Yesterday seventy-nine tramway strikers returned to duty, and this ...
Article : 475 wordsWith the view of testing brown coal as fuel for furnaces under more favorable conditions than is possible with the ordinary bars used for black coal, ...
Article : 157 wordsAdvising a deputation representing the Victorian trades interested in the building of motor bodies not to be afraid that the Government would go ...
Article : 385 wordsAdditional men continue to apply at the railway for re-employment, and many are also seeking work at various private industrial works. ...
Article : 85 wordsLate this afternoon the Public Works Department regarded it as likely that the engineers and boilermakers who stopped working at the State ...
Article : 60 wordsArrangements were being made by the National Service Bureau to load coke at Bellambi, on the South Coast, for despatch to Port Pirie in order to ...
Article : 73 wordsThere are the boys in the trenches, living in a perfect hell, water up to their waists, nights of misery and ...
Article : 183 wordsOfficials of building trades unions today expressed pleasure at the announcement by Mr. W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister, that the construction ...
Article : 123 wordsThere was a further decrease in the number of volunteers employed on the waterfront today, when 854 men handled cargoes, as compared with 947 ...
Article : 336 words"I have received information," said Mr. G. W. Fuller, the Acting Premier, today, "that at about 3.20 o'clock this morning two piers at the Wallarah ...
Article : 116 wordsVolunteer workers have made such excellent progress loading wool on lighters that they are ahead of the dumps, and yesterday had to suspend ...
Article : 111 wordsSentiments expressed in "Union Jack's" letter, in "The Herald" on August 25, open up a very good way ...
Article : 216 wordsMr. F. Hagelthorn, Minister for Agriculture, visited Brooklyn today, and expressed himself pleased at the manner in which National Service ...
Article : 38 words"I would like to assure the public that there is no possibility of a sugar famine," said Mr. W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister, today. ...
Article : 153 wordsAttention is directed to a late advertisement, correcting one in another portion of this issue, with relation to the use of coal. It is now officially ...
Article : 69 wordsIn the Criminal Court today, Sir John Madden, Chief Justice, contended that he was right when he referred on Monday to a case connected with the Treasury. ...
Article : 494 wordsIn the charges of conspiracy against E. J. Kavanagh, M.LC., secretary of the Strikers' Defence Committee; Claude Thompson, secretary of the ...
Article : 75 words"I have given instructions that if unlawful assemblies or processions are held in the city the police are to break them up, and, if necessary, ...
Article : 70 wordsThis morning the first coal from the Wallarah mine, which is being worked by volunteer labor, reached Sydney in the collier Tuggerah. ...
Article : 312 wordsOwing to the strike, Mr. W. M. Hughes, the prime Minister, said today, Mr. W. C. Grahame, Minister for Agriculture in New South Wales, who was ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. J. H. Singleton (Coventry street, South Melbourne) writes--I have spoken to a number of married men since the strike started, and they are ...
Article : 123 wordsRepresentatives or the Melbourne Wharf Laborers' Union intend asking for permission from Alderman Sir David Hennessy, the Lord Mayor, for ...
Article : 36 words"When the men heard that Mr. A. C. Willis, the general secretary of the Coal and Shale Miners' Federation, had been arrested, they ceased work on their own ...
Article : 317 wordsUp to noon today at the National Service Bureau 35 men had been sent to work, the number including timber stackers, drivers, carters, stevedores, ...
Article : 68 wordsA dispassionate view of the strike situation at Broken Hill discredits recent sensational and highly colored narratives and statements. Life here ...
Article : 333 wordsIn addition to a mass meeting of members of the Timber Employes' Union, which is to be held at the Socialist Hall at 10 a.m. tomorrow, a ...
Article : 74 words"The letter of Mr. James Webb (No. 1798) appearing in "The Herald" on August 25 is typical of present-day unionism. That is to say, it is couched ...
Article : 213 wordsOn behalf of National volunteers who have been doing the work of wharf laborers since unionists ceased operations, the question has been asked if ...
Article : 104 wordsIn our advertising columns today are particulars of the reductions in the train services, to take effect on Friday. ...
Article : 33 wordsA concert by The Bendigo Cheeros in aid of the lady Mayoress's Patriotic League, Malvern branch, will be held this evening. The Athenæum Hall was ...
Article : 63 wordsAt a meeting of the Lardner branch of the Farmers' Union on Monday night, volunteers were called for national service, and every member ...
Article : 40 wordsCity readings by Gaunt's instruments in Bourke street at noon today were.--Barometer, 30.062; falling. Thermometer, in the sun, highest 84; shade, ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Wed 29 Aug 1917, Page 1
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