The following advertisement appears in another column:— The Sydney Coal Lumpers' Union having refused to carry out its duties as a Naval ...
Article : 153 wordsPending a decision by the Interstate Commission in regard to the price of various commodities, the Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, stated yesterday that the prices already fixed ...
Article : 100 wordsHousewives will welcome the announcement made at the close of a meeting of master butchers yesterday afternoon that all retail shops are to be open as usual for the sale of ...
Article : 298 words"I should like," said Mr. Fuller on Saturday, "to deal with the last bulletin issued on behalf of the Strike Promotion Committee. "In spite of assurances to the contrary, we ...
Article : 644 wordsThe problem of supplying sufficient labour for the wharfs is gradually being solved. The Government is now in a position to supply labour for the purpose of unloading ships and ...
Article : 553 wordsA startling development over the week-end in connection with the strike was the arrest at about midnight of Saturday of three men whose names have figured prominently in ...
Article : 525 wordsSeen late to-night on the situation created by the wharf-labourers not resuming work, the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) made the following statement:—"I greatly regret to ...
Article : 922 wordsAt the close of a meeting of the Defence Committee last night it was stated:—"The conference to-night considered the position created by the arrest of Messrs. Kavanagh, ...
Article : 464 wordsSir,—Most fair-minded people will be disposed to agree with what your contributor, Mr. Boote, has to say concerning the behaviour of the men on strike and their fine spirit of ...
Article : 648 wordsMr. G. S. Rigg, of Newtown, has been advised that his eldest son Lieut. George Southerton, has been killed in France. He was previously in the service of the City Bank. ...
Article : 401 wordsThe Railway Commissioners stated on Saturday that in consequence of a number of warehouses and leading shops remaining closed the suburban trains were well able to ...
Article : 247 wordsInquiries made on Saturday elicited the information that various meat companies consider the position in the north caused by the strike of railway employees to be a very ...
Article : 242 wordsThe Newcastle District Defence Committee met this afternoon. The members of the local committee intend urging their colleagues in Sydney to consider a policy which would ...
Article : 119 wordsFourteen engine-drivers, ten firemen, and one cleaner returned to work at Hamilton to-day and were accepted. It is not intended to increase the suburban passenger service ...
Article : 100 wordsThe first interstate steamer to sail since the seamen's strike cleared the Heads on Saturday afternoon. This was Messrs. Scott Fell and Company's steamer Omana. The ...
Article : 104 wordsThe northern recruiting train, which left Tenterfield on Monday, August 6, arrived to Newcastle yesterday afternoon with 90 recruits to its credit. Forty-three travelled by ...
Article : 122 wordsMr. Mutch, M.L.A., on behalf of the Strike Defence Conference, stated on Saturday afternoon that at a meeting called to receive the report of the representatives who waited on ...
Article : 143 wordsSir,—The laboured apology by Mr. H. E. Boote for the strikers, which appeared in your issue of Saturday, comes as a last despairing effort to fan the expiring embers of ...
Article : 1,058 wordsNo difficulty is being experienced in dealing with the tram traffic. Over 230 trams were in use on Friday, and 238 at 11 a.m. on Saturday. ...
Article : 222 wordsThe position of the mines as regards coal supply has become serious Mr. E. J. Horwood, president of the Mining Managers' Association, announced to-day.—"As the stocks ...
Article : 103 wordsThere have boen two conferences at the Raliway Institute between members of the Strike Committee and the Chief Railway Commissioner, on Saturday night and again on ...
Article : 515 wordsThe Newcastle and Hunter River S.S. Company have, without intermission, conducted their cargo trade between Sydney, Newcastle, and Morpeth since the strike started, with the ...
Article : 107 wordsPrivate telegrams from Townsville, Cloncurry, and other towns affected by the north ern raliway strike suggest that in the opinion of business people the trouble will ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. J. M. Baddeley, president of the Colliery Employees' Federation, said to-day that the executive officers were not much alarmed at the action of the Government in amending ...
Article : 460 words"I do not propose," said Mr. Fuller on Saturday, "to enter into a controversy with Dean Talbot. I can only express regret that he should have made the statements attributed ...
Article : 196 wordsA new development has taken place in connection with the industrial dispute. The unloading of the Wyandra has been completed, but as the seamen who signed on at ...
Article : 164 wordsSir,—The article by Mr. Boote in your issue of August 18 may not unfairly be taken to put the case for the men on strike as fully and as ably as it is possible to state it. As ...
Article : 909 words"I agree readily," said Mr. Fuller on Saturday, "that it is a matter of very small importance whether the inquiry proposed is held in six weeks or three months, but there is ...
Article : 125 wordsThe whole of the lumpers at Fremantle decided to cease work following upon the commencement of work by clerks and other free labour on loading operations. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe death occurred yesterday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. W. P. Stephen, at Leichhardt, of Mr. Allan Lamond, at the age of 81 years. The deceased, who was father ...
Article : 75 wordsA meeting of the Shipwrights' Union was held on Saturday morning. At the termination of the proceedings members of the union explained that about 450 members were now ...
Article : 45 wordsThere have been many large gatherings in the Sydney Domain' in recent years, but yesterday's assemblage eclipsed them all in point of numbers. Some judges estimated 80,000, ...
Article : 581 wordsThe Acting-Premier stated on Saturday that there has been such a good response to the appeal for volunteers that no more are required at present. ...
Article : 458 wordsThe business of Sussex-street, the greatest food-distributing centre in the city, has been practically declared black. That is to say, the Trolly and Draymen's Union, at a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 wordsA serious step has been taken by the Colliery Employees' Federation in deciding to remove pumpers, water bailers, top bands, and other employees who have been working ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 194 wordsA special meeting of the Australian Clerical Workers' Association was held at the Trades Hall on Saturday afternoon. The officials would not supply any particulars ...
Article : 80 wordsAn official of the Municipal Employees' Association stated on Saturday that the trouble which had occurred at White Bay owing to a number of the employees of the City ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsThe threatened trouble amongst the mornbers of the Water and Sewerage Employees' Union has now apparently been settled. It was stated on Friday that in all probability ...
Article : 106 wordsA report from Newnes runs as follows:—At a meeting of the Miners' Union on Wednesday evening it was decided to cease work, and on Thursday all underground operations are to ...
Article : 99 wordsEra, s, 2379 tons, Captain Parkes, from Cairns. Howard, Smith, Ltd., agents. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 20 Aug 1917, Page 8
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