Mr. Hughes went to Newcastle yesterday to put before the Northern Federation officials the congress' scheme for breaking the vend. It is understood that this scheme involves a return to work in the south and west. ...
Article : 425 words"The time has come," said the Acting Premier, Mr. Lee, last night, "when this congress should consider that everything points to the fact that the interests of the men themselves ...
Article : 384 wordsThere is a strong feeling among waterside workers that complications will arise in the handling of cargo in ships that have been declared black, which will so confuse matters ...
Article : 582 wordsOn the Legislative Assembly meeting again yesterday afternoon a further series of questions were asked in regard to the railways. THE STOCK OF COAL. ...
Article : 798 wordsThe coal-lumpers took a day off. "It's nothing to us," said one of them, "to have a few weeks' holiday," and so they went and played cricket at Moore Park, or sat under ...
Article : 192 wordsA draft of the agreement between Messrs. A. Kethel and Co. and the Colliery Employees' Federation, governing the rates of payment to employees at the Ebbw Main ...
Article : 378 wordsDuring the hearing of the conspiracy cases at the Newcastle police court to-day a cheque book, from which choques were made out drawing upon the funds of the Amalgamated Coal ...
Article : 128 wordsNotice was given by the Premier in the Legislative Assembly last evening that he would to-day move the suspension of the standing orders to permit of a bill to amend ...
Article : 71 wordsA further series of questions having relation to the strike were addressed to Ministers in the Legislative Assembly last evening. COAL MINES REGULATION BILL. ...
Article : 422 words"We have already ordered," said Mr. Lee last night, "upwards of 50,000 tons of coal, and, as previously stated, several of the cargoes will be here early in January. We do not ...
Article : 178 wordsA day or two ago the "Herald" foreshadowed that Mr. Hughes, M.P., would visit Newcastle and endeavour to shatter the last vestige of the Bowling influence with the miners. To-night ...
Article : 1,694 wordsThe possibility of a general strike was the question with unionists yesterday. Particularly was this the case among the deepsea section of the wharf-labourers. The ...
Article : 987 wordsThe charge of conspiracy against Peter Bowling, William Brennan, Albert Burns, Amram Lewis, and Andrew Gray was resumed at the Newcastle Police Court to-day, before ...
Article : 1,347 wordsIt is not generally known that one of the first acts of the present Chief Commissioner when he came to New South Wales was to order the laying in of large coal stocks ...
Article : 337 wordsImmediately after the meeting which ended in such uproar, the union leaders gathered at the Trades Hall, where a conference, which had evidently been arranged before hand, took ...
Article : 133 wordsAn accident occurred shortly before 6 o'clock last night at a point where the Lilyfield train turns off from the Balmain line. A car bound for Lilyfield was crowded with passengers, ...
Article : 107 wordsTaking the prospects of the arm of the law being stretched out to them as something that may happen any day, the members of the strike congress are in continual ...
Article : 77 wordsEvidence becomes stronger every day of a feeling of unrest among the strikers. All the bombast has gone at of them. You no longer hear them say, "Wade is not game to set his ...
Article : 423 wordsThe strike congress sat for a couple of hours yesterday morning, and rose at about 4 in the afternoon. When the delegates came out, Mr. Hughes said: "Matters have now ...
Article : 506 wordsThe Mayor, Alderman Holloway, who is president of the Labour League, called a meeting of citizens, at which a motion urging the Government to take over temporarily two ...
Article : 59 wordsThe official notification of his appointment as Chairman of the Newcastle Collieries (Newcastle and Maitland Miners') Board was received yesterday morning by Judge Scholes. ...
Article : 97 wordsIn the House yesterday morning a number of complaints were mude of the cutting down of the train services. Mr. BURGESS complained of the extent to ...
Article : 392 wordsThe appointment of Mr. Paterson to the wages board was discussed at the strike congress for a brief space yesterday, but no finality was reached. Only three of the ...
Article : 58 wordsAs the applause following Mr. Hughes' concluding remarks died down, Mr. M'Williams, acting president of the Miners' Federation, asked Mr. Hughes why he did ...
Article : 955 wordsThe president of the Colliery Proprietors' Association, Mr. F. Livingstone Learmonth, was questioned to-day in regard to the telegram sent to the association by the Dean of ...
Article : 163 wordsIt is estimated that for the five weeks' strike ended last Saturday £25,000 in wages was lost to the town. Cases of need are becoming more numerous daily, but relief is given ...
Article : 65 wordsAll day yesterday the Marmora worked quietly with her scratch crew getting cargo stowed away, Along that part of the waterfront the talk was about the probabilities in ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 16 Dec 1909, Page 7
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