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  2. VICTORIA FEELS BLOW

    In accordance with the decision arrived at yesterday by members of the Wharf Laborers' Union, no work either of coaling, ...

    Article : 145 words
  3. WHARF VOLUNTEERS

    About 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 words
  4. NEW SOUTH WALES CHAOS

    Sir G. W. Fuller, Acting Premier of New South wales, states that the States Government has completed its organisation for the ...

    Article : 219 words
  5. MANY TRUCKS TO UNLOAD

    Mr 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 words
  6. GOODS NOT SENT TO SYDNEY

    Goods 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 words
  7. STATE MINISTERS CONFER WITH THE PRIME MINISTER

    Sir Alexander Peacock, the Premier; Mr F. Hagelthorn, Minister for Agriculture; and Mr H. A. Pitt, Secretary to the Australian Wheat Board, were ...

    Article : 65 words
  8. GOODS FROM THIS STATE CARRIED BY N.S.W. LINES

    New South Wales railway officials have informed the Victorian Commissioners that they are now prepared to accept potatoes butter, vegetables and ...

    Article : 58 words
  9. INDUSTRIAL BILL IN FEDERAL CABINET

    Federal 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 words
  10. COUNTRY LUMPERS CEASE

    What 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 words
  11. THE "SECRET CONCLAVE"

    Mr 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 words
  12. SYDNEY'S MOTORS FOR STATE'S USE

    A 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 words
  13. I.W.W TACTICS CAUSE REVOLT

    As 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 words
  14. NO WORK DONE AT GEELONG ON BARWON AND COURIER

    Following 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 words
  15. VESSELS HELD IN BRISBANE

    Today 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 words
  16. COAL ABUNDANT

    Coal 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 words
  17. MANY SHIPS TIED UP

    That shipowners were anxious to carry on services as well as possible under adverse circumstances was the emphatic statement made at the ...

    Article : 436 words
  18. "WE ARE PREPARED"

    "The Government has definitely completed its organisations for the maintenance of traffic and the distribution of foodstuffs," declared Mr G. W. ...

    Article : 134 words
  19. AT CENTRAL STATION

    Though the waitresses who left work yesterday, at the Central Railway Station have not returned, a full staff was working this morning, and ...

    Article : 131 words
  20. COMMITTEE MEETS

    Wharf laborers were present in large numbers at their rooms in Flinders street today, and they gathered in groups eagerly discussing the situation. ...

    Article : 193 words
  21. HOBART FEARS SHORTAGE OF COAL FROM MAINLAND

    Hobart was exceptionally quiet today., There was no interstate shipping. A coal shortage is feared if the mainland trouble is not settled soon. ...

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  22. ARSENAL PROJECT SCANNED BY COMMITTEE OF CABINET

    Faced 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 words
  23. DELEGATES ASK COUNCIL TO STOP RAILWAY CURRENT

    Delegates from the Strike Defence Committee waited upon the Newcastle Council last night and asked that the supply of current to the Railway ...

    Article : 143 words
  24. CONSPIRACY CHARGED

    William 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
  25. BUTTER POSITION STATED

    "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 words
  26. UNION DELEGATES LEAVE FOR SYDNEY BY MOTOR CAR

    The 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 words
  27. DEFECTIONS HAVE EFFECT

    Already 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 words
  28. "Fill the Breach!"

    THE 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]

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  29. MELBOURNE TRAMWAY MEN TO ASSIST STRIKE FUNDS

    At 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 words
  30. FLOUR BY RAIL "BLACK"

    Men in city and suburban flour mills have been advised, says Mr George Lowis, secretary of the Federated Millers and Mill Employes' ...

    Article : 97 words
  31. GOOD NEWS FROM NEWCASTLE

    A 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 words
  32. COURIER DISCHARGED

    There was a new development at the Australian Wharf today, when the clerks employed by the Huddart Parker Company discharged the cargo from ...

    Article : 256 words
  33. WHEAT STACKERS STOP WORK

    Wheat agents informed Mr H. J. Baker, secretary of the Victorian Wheat Commission, this morning, that wheat stackers employed on the ...

    Article : 120 words
  34. "NEW ERA TODAY"

    "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 words
  35. SEAMEN'S VICE-PRESIDENT CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY

    William 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 words
  36. STACKERS STILL AT WORK ON SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GRAIN

    Mr H. A. Pitt, Secretary of the Australian Wheat Board, has been informed officially that the when stackers in South Australia are working as usual. ...

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  37. MEN EXPRESS DISAPPROVAL

    "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 ...

    Article : 110 words
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