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  2. IN THE BALANCE

    The strike has not yet spread dangerously. Many of the alarming rumors circulated yesterday were mere gossip. Mr. Kavanagh, M.L.C., who presided all day over a continuous meeting ...

    Article : 345 words
  3. AUSTRALIA'S WORST STRIKE

    There need be no niggling of words in relation to this latest example of loyalty, as unionists in mass understand the term. The strike of rail and tramway workers now proceeding ...

    Article : 2,079 words
  4. CABINET'S DECISION

    The State Cabinet yesterday considered the proposal of the detence committee, a body appointed from various Unions at the Trader Hall to watch the interests of the strikers. ...

    Article : 140 words
  5. DISLOYAL AND COWARDLY

    If the attitude the people of Sydney have adopted towards the strikers, and their feelings on the rights or wrongs. of the dispute, have any effect on the outcome of the strike the ...

    Article : 1,242 words
  6. THE MEN'S BOGEY

    One of the workers seen outside the Trades Hall yesterday morning save his ground of objection to the card system:—"I'm on a job; and it takes me six hours. That's all right. ...

    Article : 203 words
  7. HARMFUL RUMORS

    The erroneous report that the Defence Committee had declared coal "black," which gained currency yesterday, was calculated to do harm by causing men to cease work on the ...

    Article : 220 words
  8. WHY CARDS ARE NEEDED

    One of the reasons for the introduction of the card system of check on the cost of work done in the different producing branches of the railway service is the enormous increase, ...

    Article : 138 words
  9. LOCO. MEN'S DECISION

    At a mass meeting of the Locomotive Drivers, Firemen and Cleaners yesterday it was decided by a large majority to strike immediately. Later on the executive sat to ...

    Article : 52 words
  10. WILL IT SPREAD?

    It is still in doubt whether the strike at the railway and tramway workshops will extend to other branches of the services. Yesterday the Chief Commissioner described the position as ...

    Article : 362 words
  11. MEN WILLING TO CONFER

    The Unions' Defence Committee, composed of delegates from all the Unions, and invested with authority an the governing body in the crisis, sat for the better part of yesterday in the ...

    Article : 929 words
  12. MEN WHO HOLD THE FORT

    In the course of conversation with some of the workers in the Loco, and Firemen's Union yesterday, it was stated that the key of the city transport position is in the hands of the ...

    Article : 132 words
  13. ENGINEDRIVERS NOT INVOLVED

    The resolution of the Drivers, Cleaners, and Firemen's Association to stop work docs not involve the body of men known to the public as engine-drivers—the men ...

    Article : 492 words
  14. THE STATE ON THE VERGE OF UNPRECEDENTED INDUSTRIAL CRISIS

    The statement that the tramway men have been called out is another of the gossipy items to which no importance need be attached. As Mr. Kavanagh pointed out in his statement ...

    Article : 486 words
  15. COMMISSIONER'S VIEW

    Yesterday afternoon the Chief Railway Commissioner, Mr. J. Fraser, stated that matters were very little worse than on Friday. "The present position with regard to the ...

    Article : 157 words
  16. AWAITING DEVELOPMENTS

    The railway Commissioners met last night to discuss the general situation. They declined to make any statement afterwards beyond saying that they were awaiting ...

    Article : 30 words
  17. ON THE SOUTH COAST

    Inconvenience has been caused in this district on account of the stoppage of workmen's trains. Miners who live in this end of the district but who are employed in the northern ...

    Article : 247 words
  18. 3000 MEN AFFECTED

    Mr. A. C. Willis, general secretary of the Coal and Shale Employees' Association, states that owing to the concellation of the workmen's trains in the coal centres on the South ...

    Article : 57 words
  19. COAL NOT BLACK

    It was published in the course of yesterday that, in accordance with a decision of the Unions' Defence Committee, all coal in the hands of the Railway Department is declared ...

    Article : 47 words
  20. MR. BEEBY RETICENT

    Seen at Menzies' Hotel this morning, Mr. Becby, Minister for Labor in New South Wales, stated that he would not make any communication in regard to the strike. An ...

    Article : 165 words
  21. EFFECT ON RECRUITING

    The strike will, in the opinion of the Chairman of the State Recruiting Committee, gravely influence the work of that body. For a little time the number of enlistments has been ...

    Article : 159 words
  22. POSITION AT GOULBURN

    Strike effects are Being seriously felt here, About 100. men, are out, and the goods sheds are practically closed owing to restriction of traffic. The Engineer's Society here ...

    Article : 52 words
  23. MORE FUEL MEN OUT

    The three fuelmen at Milson's Point railway yards struck at midday. It was expected the Hornsby men would follow suit. ...

    Article : 24 words
  24. NEWCASTLE MEN WAITING

    There were no fresh developments to-day. The tramway men appear to be awaiting the decision of their confreres in Sydney. All the apprentices were working as usual to-day. ...

    Article : 64 words
  25. FEDERAL MEMBERS BLOCKED

    Several Federal Members who usually go to Sydney over the week-end have stayed in Melbourne. Mr. Cook, Minister for the Navy, Mr. Webster, Postmaster-General, and Senator ...

    Article : 43 words
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