This morning there were 4900 country volunteers in Sydney, of whom all but 1000 were at work. An effort being made to ...
Article : 433 wordsAnother section of the strikers held the view that it would be impossible to keep the engineers on strike if all the other unions returned to work. ...
Article : 421 wordsMr Justice Higgins this morning withdrew the Preference to Unionists' clause from the Waterside Workers award, as far as ...
Article : 93 wordsWork was resumed this morning by 18 volunteers in the painting of a transport berthed at the Outer Graving Dock Pier. Williamstown. ...
Article : 27 wordsAccording to estimates presented to the joint meeting of the Federal and State National Service Committees in Melbourne today. about 9000 persons ...
Article : 175 wordsA petition for presentation to the Speaker and Parliament, asking for the appointment of a tribunal to settle the dispute, is being circulated for ...
Article : 32 wordsPreference to unionists was taken away from the waterside workers to-day by Mr Justice Higgins, though the order will not be issued for a week. ...
Article : 2,226 wordsMr W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister, refused the request of Mr T. J. Ryan, Premier of Queensland, that Mr Justice Higgins, President of the ...
Article : 133 wordsUntil the Sydney wharf men decide to resume it is not believed likely that the Melbourne wharf laborers will agree to return to work, and so far ...
Article : 88 wordsMessrs. J. Cook and W. A. Watt, representing the Federal National Service Committee, and Sir Alexander Peacock and Mr F. Hagelthorn, representing ...
Article : 107 wordsThere were 885 volunteers employed on the wharves and piers of Melbourne, Yarraville and Williamstown today, being 31 more than yesterday. ...
Article : 219 wordsAdvices have been received by the Central National Voluntary Labor Bureau that Healesville, Warragul and Werribee shires have take up the work ...
Article : 158 wordsMr W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister, today received a further telegram from Mr T. J. Ryan, Premier of Queensland. ...
Article : 79 wordsMore than 2000 members of the Timber Workers Union met at the Socialist Hall, .Exhibition street, today to consider tho position created by the ...
Article : 151 wordsVolunteer laborers have formed an association entitled National Waterside Workers' Union of West Australia, and are applying for ...
Article : 132 wordsBetween 600 and 700 carters and drivers are now idle as a result of the union's determination not to carry goods either to or from the wharves. ...
Article : 88 wordsSince 10 a.m. yesterday and up to this morning 351 strikers had been re-employed by the railway and tramway authorities, and 53 new hands had been ...
Article : 140 wordsIt has been decided to hold a special meeting of the Storemen and Packers' Union at Unity Hall, Bourke street, at 3 p.m. on Sunday. The Industrial ...
Article : 44 wordsMr E. Jones, president of the Melbourne Wharf Laborers'. Union, said this morning that, true to their resolve to handle transports, unionists had ...
Article : 203 wordsMr H. J. Baker, secretary of the Victorian Wheat Commission, stated this afternoon that 30,000 bags of wheat a day were being handled by men in the ...
Article : 78 wordsBefore Mr C. J. Rogers, P.M., and a bench of honorary justices, at the City Court today, Walter Carne, elocutionist, and James Turner, a returned ...
Article : 337 wordsProtection for volunteer laborers in their future employment is sought by the Perth Chamber of Commerce, the members of which have passed the ...
Article : 235 wordsAnother detonator explosion occurred on the tramway line in Barlow street yesterday, in the course of the strike procession. No damage was ...
Article : 83 wordsA transport has berthed at the new pier, Williamstown, and it is stated that it is to be loaded with flour by volunteers, including University and ...
Article : 64 wordsProtesting against the innuendo thrown out by Father O'Dwyer, the Principal of St. Xavier's College, against the boys of other public schools ...
Article : 227 wordsBy 10 a.m. today all cargo space on the steamer Dimboola had been booked, and the demand for berths during the morning indicated that all ...
Article : 245 wordsToday the sunken steamer Morinda was declared black, and several shipwrights decided that she could not bo worked. ...
Article : 117 wordsThere was a large concourse of people in Victoria parade. Fitzroy. this afternoon, when the funeral a the late Mr. J. R. Snowball, secretary ...
Article : 135 wordsMr E. Jones, president of the Melbourne Wharf Laborers' Union, denied today that wharf laborers took part in the disturbance which occurred in the ...
Article : 126 wordsAt a meeting of the Necessary Commodities Commission today, Mr Justice Edmunds road reports of inspectors who had examined imported butter in ...
Article : 117 wordsAt the Central Red, White, and Blub mine 300 tons have been cleaned up for 93¼oz. of gold. ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Thu 30 Aug 1917, Page 1
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