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  2. THE RAILWAY CRISIS. GOVERNMENT PARTY ADHERES TO ARBITRATION.

    After sitting until an early hour this morning, the Government Party resolved in favour of adhering to the principle of arbitration, and the Cabinet was authorised to convene a conference of the railway unions with a view to bringing about a settlement. ...

    Article : 316 words
  3. IPSWICH WORKSHOPS PRACTICALLY IDLE.

    Announcements made at a mass meeting of railwayman to-night indicate that in Ipswich, at any rate there will be practically a general stoppage of work ...

    Article : 1,583 words
  4. NO OVERTIME. MINISTERS CRITICISED.

    There was a good-humoured atmosphere about the stop-work meeting held in the morning on the green near the singnal-box at Roma-street. The assemblage ...

    Article : 1,107 words
  5. SHIFTING RESPONSIBILITY. OVERSEAS SHIPPING TURMOIL.

    Desirous of removing the responsibility of the strike from their own shoulders, the officials of the Australian Seamen's Union in Sydney yesterday induced the British seamen to form a ...

    Article : 1,739 words
  6. CAUCUS DECISION.

    Protracted, and at times angry, consideration of the railway crisis by the Government Party last night ended arter a sitting of over five hours in ...

    Article : 689 words
  7. TO ESCAPE LAW.

    A sensational seene occurred in the Now South Wales Assembly yesterday, when a Nationalist member asked whether two men—Walsh and ...

    Article : 507 words
  8. TRAINS STOPPED.

    The Railway Department sent instructions to Maryborough for the Townsville mail train, which left Brisbane at 2.45 p.m. to-day, to be brought into ...

    Article : 622 words
  9. UNION LEADERS.

    It is feared in union circles that when the railway unionists concerned in the dispute learn through their representatives on the Vigilance Committee this morning ...

    Article : 558 words
  10. OFFICIAI CIRCLES.

    Calam reigned in official and political circles yesterday before the storm which some polilticians and many industrialists feared, or hoped, would break about the ...

    Article : 519 words
  11. CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MEN STRIKE AT MIDNIGHT.

    In no uncertain manner the railway workers chose the strike weapon to settle their grievances at a largelyattended stop-work meeting. No reply ...

    Article : 655 words
  12. THAT 5 PER CENT.

    In 1922. following a reduction of the basic wage from £4/5 to £4, the Labour Government passed the Salaries, Act, which redneed the salaries of all public servants ...

    Article : 188 words
  13. CAIRNS MEN GO OUT.

    At a meeting of railwaymen this evening, it was decided to strike at midnight to-night on instructions forwarded from Townsville, notwithstanding the fact that ...

    Article : 117 words
  14. AT INNISFAIL.

    The railway employees to-day carried a motion setting out that unless their demands are met by midnight they will cease work. ...

    Article : 28 words
  15. SOUTH-WESTERN COMMITTEE FORMED.

    A meetign of the disputes committee was held at the Toowoomba locomotive shed at noon to-day, when a wire from the executive in Brisbane ...

    Article : 128 words
  16. CHARTERS TOWERS MEETING.

    A mass meeting of all branches of the railway unions was held this morining when it was unanimously decided to support the Townsville resolutions, Another ...

    Article : 68 words
  17. FIREMEN CEASE WORK.

    Twelve firemen on the Port Hardy stopped work at 10 o'clock on Tuesday. They are single men, and remained on the ship. The married men are still at work. ...

    Article : 47 words
  18. TOWNSVILLE MEN CEASE WORK.

    The railwaymen struck to-night. With so many people engaged in seasonal employment in Townsville, the effect of the hold-up at the meatworks, ...

    Article : 111 words
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