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 wordsAnnouncements 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 wordsThere 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 wordsDesirous 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 wordsProtracted, 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 wordsA sensational seene occurred in the Now South Wales Assembly yesterday, when a Nationalist member asked whether two men—Walsh and ...
Article : 507 wordsThe 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 wordsIt 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 wordsCalam 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 wordsIn no uncertain manner the railway workers chose the strike weapon to settle their grievances at a largelyattended stop-work meeting. No reply ...
Article : 655 wordsIn 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 wordsAt 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 wordsThe railway employees to-day carried a motion setting out that unless their demands are met by midnight they will cease work. ...
Article : 28 wordsA 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 wordsA 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 wordsTwelve 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 wordsThe railwaymen struck to-night. With so many people engaged in seasonal employment in Townsville, the effect of the hold-up at the meatworks, ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 27 Aug 1925, Page 7
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