In accordance with the decision arrived at yesterday by members of the Wharf Laborers' Union, no work either of coaling, ...
Article : 145 wordsAbout 30 interstate and coastal vessels with cargo for Sydney are at the wharves, but it will be difficult to get them unloaded in anything like ...
Article : 332 wordsSir G. W. Fuller, Acting Premier of New South wales, states that the States Government has completed its organisation for the ...
Article : 219 wordsMr H M'Kenzie, Minister for Railways, informed the Wheat Commission today that as there are now 530 trucks of wheat waiting to be unloaded at ...
Article : 83 wordsGoods trains were not sent away front Melbourne for New South Wales today, but it is expected that butter and potatoes will be loaded in ...
Article : 43 wordsSir Alexander Peacock, the Premier; Mr F. Hagelthorn, Minister for Agriculture; and Mr H. A. Pitt, Secretary to the Australian Wheat Board, were ...
Article : 65 wordsNew South Wales railway officials have informed the Victorian Commissioners that they are now prepared to accept potatoes butter, vegetables and ...
Article : 58 wordsFederal Ministers in Cabinet this afternoon are understood to be considering the terms of a Bill to deal with the industrial situation generally in ...
Article : 157 wordsWhat looks like an extension of the strike to the country has taken place. The Victorian Wheat Commission wife informed today that the men lumping ...
Article : 207 wordsMr W. G. Spence, M.H.R., who for many years was president of the Australian Workers' Union, one of the largest and most powerful employes' ...
Article : 391 wordsA special meeting of the Executive Council will be held today, at which a Minute will he passed giving the Government power to commandeer all ...
Article : 101 wordsAs a result of the Industrial Workers of the World display yesterday, Robert Todd, president of the Railway Traffic Association, and the whole of the ...
Article : 380 wordsFollowing on the decision of the Geelong wharf laborers yesterday not to handle the cargo of the steamer Bar- won the laborers decided to hold a ...
Article : 168 wordsToday the steamer Cooma arrived from the north, but it is not known whether it will continue its voyage southward. Several steamers have been ...
Article : 52 wordsCoal for purposes of fighting and generally for manufacturing appears to be fairly abundant. The coal strike of last year taught a lesson that the truest ...
Article : 140 wordsThat shipowners were anxious to carry on services as well as possible under adverse circumstances was the emphatic statement made at the ...
Article : 436 words"The Government has definitely completed its organisations for the maintenance of traffic and the distribution of foodstuffs," declared Mr G. W. ...
Article : 134 wordsThough the waitresses who left work yesterday, at the Central Railway Station have not returned, a full staff was working this morning, and ...
Article : 131 wordsWharf laborers were present in large numbers at their rooms in Flinders street today, and they gathered in groups eagerly discussing the situation. ...
Article : 193 wordsHobart was exceptionally quiet today., There was no interstate shipping. A coal shortage is feared if the mainland trouble is not settled soon. ...
Article : 39 wordsFaced with an estimated expenditure, equal to nearly £2,500,000 a week for the current financial year, Federal Ministers have decided to exercise the ...
Article : 129 wordsDelegates from the Strike Defence Committee waited upon the Newcastle Council last night and asked that the supply of current to the Railway ...
Article : 143 wordsWilliam Daly, 32. vice-president of the Seamen's Union, was arrested on warrant today on a charge of having at Sydney on August 11,.1917, and other ...
Article : 387 words"There is only about 60 tons of last season's butter in the stores at present, said a merchant today, "and it belongs to London firms and is ...
Article : 177 wordsThe decision of the wharf laborers at yesterday's meeting only applied to the period up till Sunday, when a further meeting is to he held to discuss ...
Article : 92 wordsAlready the news that the President of the Traffic Association and other members,of that body have returned to work has had an effect upon some of ...
Article : 114 wordsTHE MAN BEHIND THE GUN CARLS FOR SHELLS TO LOAD IT This striking American cartoon is one of a number which will is appear, la "The Winner" tomorrow ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 33 wordsAt the half-yearly meeting of the Melbourne Tramway Employes' Association at the Unity Hall, Bourke street, yesterday, it was decided that a voluntary ...
Article : 59 wordsMen in city and suburban flour mills have been advised, says Mr George Lowis, secretary of the Federated Millers and Mill Employes' ...
Article : 97 wordsA telegram from Newcastle received today the Melbourne Steamship Company confirms the news contained in one of our messages from Sydney that a great Sudney ...
Article : 62 wordsThere was a new development at the Australian Wharf today, when the clerks employed by the Huddart Parker Company discharged the cargo from ...
Article : 256 wordsWheat agents informed Mr H. J. Baker, secretary of the Victorian Wheat Commission, this morning, that wheat stackers employed on the ...
Article : 120 words"As far as we are concerned,'' said Mr Doig, stationmaster at the Central Railway Station, this morning, "the strike is over. We start a new tra ...
Article : 107 wordsWilliam Daly, Vice-president of the Seamen's Union, was charged in the Central Police Court today with having conspired with others to instigate ...
Article : 65 wordsMr H. A. Pitt, Secretary of the Australian Wheat Board, has been informed officially that the when stackers in South Australia are working as usual. ...
Article : 35 words"This is hound to fizzle out. " said an elderly unionist at Spotswood today, when discussing the action of the wheat stackers (about 700 or 800) who did not ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Tue 14 Aug 1917, Page 1
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