This morning a meeting of the executive of the Melbourne Wharf Laborers' Union was held, and at its conclusion Mr E. Jones, the president, announced ...
Article : 227 wordsIndustrial unrest is the rule not the exception. Each strike, each lockout is merely a new example of the rule. But what makes tho rule? "The ...
Article : 485 wordsFull tram services are to be provided for the Spring race meeting, also trains for horses. Sleeping cars will be attached to the ...
Article : 132 wordsDeclaring that hemp which had been handled by volunteer workers was "black," more than 200 rope and cordage employes ...
Article : 267 wordsTwo men were arrested at Scarborough this morning in connection with the shooting of Fireman Alfred Vincent Green while his train was ...
Article : 250 wordsTwo hundred more country men arrived on the Sydney Cricket Ground today, bringing the roll call of the camp to 5600. ...
Article : 970 wordsThere were 1024 volunteers employed on the waterfront today, handling the cargoes of 28 vessels. The total number of oversea vessels ...
Article : 466 wordsMr W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister, today denied the statement that the Federal Government has under consideration the question of making it an ...
Article : 37 wordsAccording to a statement prepared by the Department of Labor and Industry there are 17,742 persons out of employment in the Newcastle district. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn officer of the Melbourne Steamship Company stated today, that a crew had been obtained to man the steamer Dimboola, which will leave ...
Article : 45 wordsThe inquest on Mervyn Ambrose Leslie Flanagan, 33, carter, who was shot during a disturbance at Camperdown on Thursday, was continued ...
Article : 196 wordsAlderman R. D. Meagher, the Lord Mayor, stated today that he had no communication in answer to his proposals from either the Government or ...
Article : 292 wordsReferring today to the statements made by Mr J. J. Love, President of the Timber Merchants' Association, in the course of which he denied that ...
Article : 433 wordsCarters and drivers employed by prominent flour millers declared flour "black"' this morning, and refused to cart it to the wharves for shipment. W. ...
Article : 112 wordsW. H. Thompson writes from Bendigo :-- "I see by your report in Saturday's 'Herald' that the waterside idlers have ...
Article : 298 wordsFor being members of the Industrial Workers of the World, three men, Rudolph Hamilton Mathias, Monty Miller, and Arthur Benjamin Wilson, were ...
Article : 43 wordsMessrs A. Asquith, president, and J. McVicars, secretary, of the Powlett branch of the Australian Coal and Shale Employes' Federation, ...
Article : 108 wordsThere was a large supply of eggs on the Sussex street market today. Prices fell a penny a dozen, new laid suburban arrivals bringing 10d. ...
Article : 88 wordsMr W. Padgen, president of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, who occupied the chair at the mass meeting of unionists hold in the Town ...
Article : 439 wordsAn extension of the strike at the Government ship building yards at Williamstown was brought about today when four of the blacksmiths left work. ...
Article : 84 wordsWaterside workers at Port Pirie still refuse to work on wharves and wheat stacks. Yesterday two train loads of coal were received at the smelters from ...
Article : 133 words"Though hundreds are going out to work from here every day," said a National Labor Bureau official today, the number coming in shows no ...
Article : 158 wordsAt the request of the Coal Board Master Butchers are to meet at Sargent's Cafe, Elizabeth street, at 8 p.m. tomorrow to state the amount of ...
Article : 54 words"What your correspondent 'Common Sense' says is only too true. "Australia, at the present time, is unfortunately devoid of statesmen who ...
Article : 195 wordsMr R. Bowers, secretary of the Timber Workers' Union, said today that an employer this morning drove two teams into a timber yard within two ...
Article : 63 wordsAs revised again today, the official figures issued by the Labor Department show that there are now 15,921 persons in Victoria affected by the ...
Article : 292 wordsThat the glass bottle workers in Sydney have gone out on strike is a matter that has not yet affected the Australian Glass Bottle Manufacturers here. ...
Article : 183 wordsAt a public meeting last night the following motion was unanimously carried :--That this meeting of the people of Bairnsdale accord the utmost ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is hoped by the Defence Department that the appointment of two inspectors of food in camps will have the result of ensuring the best and most ...
Article : 112 wordsThere was a further extension of the strike today, when more than 200 men employed by George Kinnear and Sons Proprietary Ltd., rope and cordage ...
Article : 255 words"Only a Woman who Knows the Value of Prayer,", writes:--"Noting that today had been set apart as a day of prayer and that our worthy ...
Article : 169 wordsHorse shunters employed at the Spencer street goods yards, who ceased work yesterday, resumed this morning, and work proceeded as usual. ...
Article : 73 wordsReplying to the complaint by Mr T. J. Ryan, Premier of Queensland, that the Gulf District in Queensland was short of food and could only be helped ...
Article : 104 wordsIt is unofficially estimated that the Classification Board will recommend increases of from sixpence to one shilling a day in the rates of pay for ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Tue 4 Sep 1917, Page 1
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