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Article : 79 wordsA proposal that the members of the A.W.U. should demand a 30-hour week, with no Saturday work, was submitted to yesterday's sitting of the annual convention of the Australian ...
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Article : 128 wordsMr. Huckell, secretary of the Barrier District Assembly of the Australian Labour party, who is the representative of the Assembly on the Government relief committee, ...
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Article : 82 wordsThe Home Secretary has decided not to advise the reprieve of Jack Alfred Field and William Thomas Gray, who are under sentence of death for the murder of Irene Munro, ...
Article : 51 wordsJudge Armstrong, presiding at the Bathurst Quarter Sessions, to-day, sentenced Leonard Hughes aged 30, a railway-cleaner, to one year's imprisonment for the theft of softgoods ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 3 Feb 1921, Page 9
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