The State Government today issued a proclamation taking over all the coal mines in New South Wales for the period of the ...
Article : 83 wordsAdela Pankhurst was sentenced to a month's imprisonment at the City Court today on a charge of having behaved in an offensive manner ...
Article : 993 wordsVoluntary workers yesterday completed loading a lighter with wool, and the vessel was taken to Melbourne. Other lighters are coming to ...
Article : 111 wordsEnrolling at the National Volunteer Bureau in the Athenaeum a going forward steadily. All the deck hands who will ...
Article : 130 wordsWork began this morning on the Commonwealth steamer from Calcutta with a cargo of jute goods. The steamer had been in the Bay for several days. ...
Article : 65 wordsCity merchants state that shortage of coal will not affect the production of Victorian butter except insofar as railage is concerned, as the country ...
Article : 44 wordsBeyond knots of workless men at intervals along Nelson place there was little to suggest this morning that Williamstown was participating in a ...
Article : 117 wordsVolunteers are steadily enrolling at the bureau in the Athenaeum, Collins street. The numeral method has now been introduced. ...
Article : 160 wordsJ. Flynn and J. Middling, Broken Hill delegates, addressed a mass meeting of unionists yesterday and urged the Port Pirie men to join in sympathy with the ...
Article : 150 wordsFollowing its expressed determination to work the coal mines if the men remained out on strike, the New South Wales ...
Article : 98 wordsNow that the coal strike has extended to Victoria manufacturers take a serious view. Most of those dependent on steam power have fair stocks ...
Article : 238 wordsIn well-informed union circles it is stated this morning that at a meeting of railway shunters last night [?]allot was taken on the question of ...
Article : 183 wordsShipowners in Melbourne today stated that no work was being done along the river by members of the Ship Painters and Dockers' Union ...
Article : 58 wordsSpeaking in the Legislative Assembly today, Mr R. H. Solly referred to a statement made by Mr F. W. Hagelthorn, Minister of Agriculture, at ...
Article : 248 wordsThis morning there were approximatley 3200 country volunteers in Sydney. This numbr[?] will, it is expected, be doubled by tonight. ...
Article : 175 wordsMadame Melba called at the National Service Bureau, Athenaeum Hall, today and stated that she was willing to render any service that ...
Article : 173 wordsSerious trouble is feared at Port Pirie. At a meeting of the Trades and Labor Council, it was reported that 99 ...
Article : 82 wordsCalling at the National Service Bureau this morning, a representative of the Melbourne Steamship Company Pty. Ltd. picked up two gangs of men ...
Article : 182 wordsAt Unity Hall tonight, a special ag[?]gate meeting of the Amalgamated dety of Engineers is to be held, at each it is understood the industrial ...
Article : 60 wordsIn an amendment of the War Precautions Regulations, issued today, it was made an offence if any person, by word, attitude, or otherwise, interferes ...
Article : 94 wordsThere was a new development on the [?]arf today, when the timber sorters[?] stackers, who have not previously [?]en any part in the strike, did not ...
Article : 155 wordsAlong the water front today work was continued on every vessel in the river and at the Victoria Dock, on which men were employed yesterday ...
Article : 170 wordsWhen the steamer Conah leaves for Burnie and Devonport at 5 p.m. today she will be manned by a notable crew. All the deck hands will be men ...
Article : 175 wordsAt the usual weekly meeting of the Federal Ministerial Party today, Mr W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister, presiding, unanimous approval was ...
Article : 66 wordsToday was "grievance day" in the Legislative Assembly, and, on the motion that the Speaker leave the chair, and the House go into ...
Article : 343 wordsFifteen laborers who were engaged this morning by the Austral Nail Works, Ferrars street, South Melbourne, on learning that they would ...
Article : 114 wordsA further 400 men have ceased work [?] Yarraville because of the decision [?] the employes at the Mount Lyell company's chemical works at ...
Article : 143 wordsThis morning's train service into Sydney comprised 68 trains. Evening trains will begin running today on the main suburban and certain ...
Article : 68 wordsMany of the chaff mills in Melbourne have been compelled to shorten hands, while reports have been received that all those at Geelong will be closed ...
Article : 79 wordsReports received this morning by the sub-committee of steamship owners which is controlling volunteer national workers for shipping ...
Article : 88 wordsIt is almost certain that waterside workers in north-west ports will refuse tomorrow to discharge the cargoes of the Marrawah and Oonah, on the ...
Article : 159 wordsWhen the Labor leaders E.J. Kavanagh, M.L.C., secretary of the Trade and Labor Council; A. C. Willis, secretary of the Australasian Coal and ...
Article : 101 wordsNow that the railway services between New South Wales and Victoria are being well maintained, the New South Wales authorities have advised ...
Article : 67 words[?]rocery manufacturing houses on [?]om the public is dependent for sup[?]es of oatmeal, split peas, and many [?]er articles of daily consumption are ...
Article : 127 words"Only about 15 of our men are affected yet," said Mr W. Brown, secretary of the Shipwrights' Union, today. "However, others will become ...
Article : 139 words"In a few weeks Cessnock will be without food, and a starving man does not care whether his food is black or white," the president of the Cessnock ...
Article : 117 wordsMr John Johnston (Moonee Ponds) writes:-- A Fitzroy master baker giving evidence before the Interstate ...
Article : 136 wordsThere is a temporary shortage in some grades of salt, and grocers are for the moment conserving stocks. This shortage is due not, to the ...
Article : 189 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Victorian Association of Creches at the Town Hall, this afternoon, the following office-bearers were re-elected: ...
Article : 115 wordsMr A. B. Hellmrich, general manager of the Co-operative Film Ex- change Ltd., stated today that Melbourne and Sydney were well supplied ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Thu 23 Aug 1917, Page 1
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