The effects of the railway strike in Northern Queensland are now beginning to be felt at Charters Towers, and the food situation is likely to become serious. Butter ...
Article : 154 wordsDay by day the scope of the Sydney strike has widened, and in the case of the wharf labourers it has extended to Victoria. The nominal ground of the strike was the ...
Article : 1,002 wordsBy August 16 there-were at work nearly ar thousand volunteers from the country to help the citizens of Sydney resist the domination of ...
Article : 273 wordsIn March last a plate-laying gang of from 70 to 80 men on the East-West railway went on strike for three days because of an official refusal of their request ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) appealed to the men on August 10 to exercise reason, and threatened in the alternative that every resource at the disposal of the ...
Article : 357 wordsThe Melbourne-Trades Hall has during the past few days taken no open part in the industrial upheaval. The officials recognise that the situation is developing ...
Article : 320 wordsThe Victorian Railways Commissioners have decided that the butty-gang, or contract, system, which has been in operation with regard to supernumerary ...
Article : 169 wordsResidents of harbour suburbs now breathe freely. The ferries will run. The steadying influence expected of the unanimous decision of the masters, and engineers ...
Article : 76 wordsThe only serious development in the New South Wales strike on Thursday was the extension of unrest to Glebe Island, where the slaughtermen did not report for duty. ...
Article : 154 wordsAn endeavour by the Melbourne Tramways Board to increase the running speed of the trams on the Clifton Hill and Nicholson street lines has been so bitterly ...
Article : 200 wordsThe members of the Melbourne Wharf Labourers' Union are determined that they will not even consider the question of resuming work in Victoria before Sunday, ...
Article : 296 wordsThe Federal Government on the night of August 14 issued a proclamation appealing to all loyal unionists to resume work within twenty-four hours, declaring that, in ...
Article : 440 wordsLast week representatives of the Melbourne Wharf Labourers' Union waited upon the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), and protested against the high cost of ...
Article : 485 wordsA Navy Office announcement states that there is cause for grave anxiety as to the s.s. Matunga, which has long been. engaged between Australia and Papua. The ...
Article : 410 wordsThe most important statement yet made in regard to the strike was made on August 15 by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), who stated that the Federal Ministry had ...
Article : 346 wordsVictorian employers are now beginning to feel the effects of the suspension of the export trade to New South Wales. Two boot factories in Melbourne have ...
Article : 62 wordsAn announcement by the Acting Premier (Mr. Fuller) on August 14 revealed an anti-strike organisation, which the Cabinet, in conjunction with the Farmers and ...
Article : 126 wordsThe erews of the Laranah and of the Alabama on August 15 gave 24 hours' notice to the companies of their intention to terminate their engagement. ...
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The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), Sat 18 Aug 1917, Page 37
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