Because of the strike in Sydney the sailing of steamers from Wellington to Australia has been discontinued for the present. ...
Article : 26 wordsTwenty-seven interstate steamers, aggregation 96,404 tons, are idle today through the N.S.W. strike, and in addition 5000 tons ...
Article : 97 words"Lam very glad to know," said Mr. G. W. Fuller, the Acting-Premier, to-day, "that we have already a large number of volunteers, and that ...
Article : 118 wordsMr. F. Hagelthorn, Minister for Agriculture, announced this afternoon that practically all the watchmen employed on the metropolitan seaside wheat ...
Article : 448 wordsFree Labor for wheat-stacking [?] being engaged today through [?] State Labor Bureau. The [?]tchmen who struck have ...
Article : 88 wordsThe steamers Wyreema and Bingera are due tomorrow. The intention of their crews is unknown. If the Bingera is held up North ...
Article : 59 wordsThomas Robinson, of the Seamen's Union, was charged at the Water Police Court today with having conspired to instigate a strike. The terms of the ...
Article : 139 wordsAt a sitting tomorrow the Necessary Commodities Commission will consider the situation in regard to the butter supply. ...
Article : 146 words[?]llowing a special conference of [?]ral Ministers this afternoon, it [?] announced that a war precaution [?]lation would be issued immediately ...
Article : 134 wordsHaving received an official message that the employes at Cockatoo Island, the great Government dock and shipyard, were on strike, Mr. Joseph Cook, ...
Article : 288 wordsOccupants of the big camp being formed for strike volunteers are almost exclusively country men By this morning's country trains ...
Article : 509 wordsThis morning the Rosehill Racing Club was notified by the railway authorities that special trains would not be available for race meetings this week. ...
Article : 54 wordsIt has been decided by the Operative Bakers' Union to close its membership roll until the strike is over. This action has been taken because ...
Article : 84 wordsFollowing is a list of the inter-state vessels held up as a result of the strike, and the ports in which they are lying:-- Rupara (1368 tons), Sydney: Gabo, ...
Article : 352 wordsThat the Naval Department had [?]red coal for the use of the Naval[?], Williamstown, and the men had [?]sed to handle it, was stated by a ...
Article : 387 wordsMost Victorian manufacturers are in a very good position in regard to power for machinery purposes. Those who rely only on coal recently took ...
Article : 161 wordsMr. P. J. Smith, secretary of the Builders' Laborers' Federation, said today that he had received advices from Mr. J. Millard, secretary of the ...
Article : 92 wordsAt Queen's Wharf this morning, clerks from the office staff continued to discharge cargo from the s.s. Courier, which has been tied up. There were ...
Article : 269 wordsUnion officials this morning vigorously denied the statement made by Mr. W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister, in his appeal, that the men engaged in ...
Article : 271 wordsAt Camden today potatoes cannot be obtained, and sugar is doled out in onepound lots. Other foodstuff supplies are approaching the vanishing point. ...
Article : 47 wordsAt a meeting of the Bendigo Gas Company today a dividend for the half-year of 26 a share was declared. The company has sufficient coal ...
Article : 42 wordsWharf laborers at Grafton have been ordered to cease work. They will meet today, and almost certainly obey the orders of the union in Sydney. ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. G. Large, secretary of the Operative Bakers' Society, denied today that the strike was in any way discussed at the social evening held by the union ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. W. A. Watt, Minister for Works and Railways, said today that it had been reported to him by Mr. N. G. Bell, Acting Commissioner for Federal ...
Article : 367 wordsPICKETS AT DOWNLING STREET TRAM DEPOT The Photograph Shows Strikers and friends at lunch time in their "dug-out," as they term it. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 20 wordsExcept for the handling, of goods for oversea sailing vessels by the stevedores, there is idleness on the waterfront, and the men are gathered in ...
Article : 152 wordsFerry firemen and deck hands, at a meeting today, decided to remain loyal, Meetings of other shifts will be held this afternoon and evening. ...
Article : 96 wordsNo work was done in loading or un[?]ding at Port Melbourne or Williamstown today, except in the case of a [?]nsport which is taking a general ...
Article : 464 wordsThere were no strike developments today, but the effects of the trouble on the mainland are likely to he felt throughout Tasmania soon. ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. T. Tunaley, secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, said today that, through circumstances over which his organisation had no ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Wed 15 Aug 1917, Page 1
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