The fitters on strike at the Eveleigh locomotive erecting shops were again idle yesterday, as were also about 200 labourers, whose services have been temporarily dispensed with, ...
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Article : 37 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Capt. Toombs drew the attention of the Minister for Labour and Industry to the report that the wages board now sitting in Newcastle to deal ...
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Article : 666 wordsA communique states: We crossed the Upper Chorok Basin, in Armenia, seizing strongly fortified positions 10,000 feet above sea level, and capturing a company ...
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Article : 62 wordsThe Bakers and Pastrycooks' Union has forwarded to the Minister for Defence a copy of a resolution passed at the last meeting, emphatically protesting against the Federal ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 5 Apr 1916, Page 13
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