Heroic measures may shortly be adopted by the Government to end the coal strike. In accordance with the Government's invitation, the mineowners in the south and west had their mines ready yesterday. The miners ...
Article : 293 wordsThe German mall steamer Friedrich der Grosse, which arrived from Bremen to-day, had just about enough coal in her bunkers to enable her to get to Sydney, after taking in ...
Article : 83 words"I think there ought not to be any difficulty for the Gas Company," Mr. Hughes ended. "Since the Raliway Commissioners have more coal than they want, let them lend the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe steamer Galava, with a consignment of coal from Newcastle for Messrs. Warburton and Son, portion of which is for the Manly Gas Company, on preparing to discharge ...
Article : 51 wordsThe steamer Marloo, of the Adelaide Company, has a quantity of concentrates which were to be shipped into the Palermo. The latter, having brought foreign coal, is on the ...
Article : 83 wordsA further number of men were put off at the electrolytic works at Port Kembla to-day. These works employed over 250 hands, and of these only a few have been kept at ...
Article : 62 wordsMembers of the various relief committees who are in charge of what is known as the Federation Commissariat Department continue to canvass the district for subscriptions ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Attorney-General (Mr. Glynn) expects that it will be quite another week before he will be able to decide what action, if any, shall be taken against firms and companies alleged ...
Article : 132 wordsThe strike of coal-lumpers naturally is a matter in which the stevedores have some concern. There was a gathering of a number of them connected with coal yesterday. This ...
Article : 54 wordsIn order to economise coal the Railway Department is utilising old sleepers for fuel. The stacks of old sleepers along the HayJunee line are being taken to Junee and sawn ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Seamen's Union held a meeting in the Trades Hall last night. The largest room in the building was crowded, and a resolution was carried expressing confidence in the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe hearing of the charge of conspiracy against Peter Bowling, William Brennan, Albert Burns, Amram Lewis, and Andrew Gray in connection with the strike of coal-miners ...
Article : 1,718 words"Goodness gracious!" Mr. Hughes exclaimed. This expression, although not precisely similar, is used as more or less equivalent to the ...
Article : 109 wordsThe strike congress meets at 10.30 this morning. It did not sit yesterday. The northern delegates were still in Newcastle, and Mr. Hughes did not turn up. The result ...
Article : 228 wordsAround many of the mines on the field are to be seen big heaps of refuse coal, containing thousands of tons, known be the miners as "chitter." This is composed mostly of coal ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Government last week invited the mineowners to open their mines, and the men to return to them. On Saturday the whistles at the southern and western collieries were ...
Article : 199 wordsThe attention of Mr. Learmonth, president or the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association, was to-day drawn to the statement made by Mr. Hughes that the northern proprietors had ...
Article : 208 words"I'm very glad to hear the Railway Commissioners have found coal," said Mr. Hughes. "It is a jubilation in which the whole of the public ought to join, expressing, no doubt, ...
Article : 166 wordsThe step which the Government is supposed to have under consideration would come as little short of a bombshell. The congress delegates are being watched to see if they ...
Article : 1,028 wordsThe Newcastle City Council has a bylaw entitled "Acts of Disorder." This bylaw states that any alderman who raises any question which the council has no legal right to ...
Article : 152 wordsAll the local collieries, viz., Coal Cliff, South Clifton, South Clifton Tunnel, and North Bulli, were in readiness for the resumption of work this morning. The horses ...
Article : 557 wordsThe strike congress appears to have more power than it over had. It has permitted the Ivanhoe miners to resume work for the cement factory at Portland. ...
Article : 322 wordsDuring the earlier stages of the strike comparatively little inconvenience was experienced by the oversea companies generally, and an enormous fleet of deep-sea liners has been ...
Article : 601 wordsMr. Htrghes's statement, published in to-day's "Herald," that the proprietors do not intend to open their mines until February, found some corroboration in the remarles made ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Mayor of Wickham called a public meeting this evening in answer to a requisition to discuss a means of raising funds to relieve distress in the municipality, in view ...
Article : 90 wordsThe proposals that have been made that the miners in the southern and western districts should return to work have been the subject of keen discussion in the Newcastle ...
Article : 500 wordsMr. Learmonth, president of the Colliery Proprietors' Association, stated to-day that the proprietors were now awaiting further notification as to when the compulsory board was to ...
Article : 63 wordsIt is understood, now that mediation and conciliation have been thrown aside, that the Government intends to watch the doings of the strike congress. If it can be proved that ...
Article : 153 wordsThree shifts of men were at work in the Young Wallsend and Ebbw Main mines to-day, and the output was increnscd to about 1700 tons. It is expected that this will be brought ...
Article : 49 wordsIt was rumoured that the two men Williamson and Phillips, who in the early stages of the Clifton trouble defied the union, intended to resume work this morning. They, ...
Article : 158 wordsMine managers point out that desperate as is the situation now, if the present state of affairs continuos much longer no trade will be left for the South Coast mines to work upon, even ...
Article : 445 wordsMr. Hughes had not heard of the rumour that the Government was having the strike congress watched, with the view of arresting some or all of its members if the conclusion ...
Article : 132 wordsThe colliery whistles blow on Saturday, and owing to many rumours interest was keen this morning as to whether any of the miners would present themselves for work. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe trouble at the city gas works is now at an end, the employees having agreed to work the coal which is to be unloaded by the company's own hands. ...
Article : 353 wordsMr. Holman, M.L.A., deputy leader of the Labour party, replied yesterday to the statement made by the Premier respecting the attitude taken up by the Labour party upon ...
Article : 617 wordsAt the commencement of the strike there were in port at Newcastle six steamers and 13 sailing vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 42,939 tons. Most of these vessels are still ...
Article : 150 wordsThe steamer Bellambi, with a cargo of coal in her hold, was alongside the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer Coblenz all day Sunday, and there was considerable curiosity about her ...
Article : 381 wordsWe are informed that the legality of the amalgamation between north, south, and west is to be tested by certain proceedings, and that Mr. E. A. Beeby (of Beeby and Co., ...
Article : 360 wordsThe manager of James Service and Co., agents for the steamer Duiaburg, stated to-day that the vessel had not got any coal on board for Australia. The vessel took the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 14 Dec 1909, Page 7
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