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  2. THE STRIKE.

    All hope of an immediate settlement of the strike seems to have disappeared. The desire for peace negotiations which was expressed to the Victorian Premier by a ...

    Article : 735 words
  3. WESTERN FRONT.

    The Amsterdam "Telegraaf" reports that practically the whole of the make population of Bruges has been ordered to help to strengthen the new German lines between ...

    Article : 239 words
  4. RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS.

    The latest desertions of troops on the Riga and Roumanian fronts have induced General Korniloff to reiterate his demands for disciplinary reforms in the army. It ...

    Article : 456 words
  5. ITALIAN ADVANCE.

    Mr. Perceval Gibbon, the English war correspondent, describes the Italians' attack on the spur of Monte San Gabriele. "The Italians," he says, "had to ascend ...

    Article : 318 words
  6. OUTPUT OF BROWN COAL.

    Owing to the abnormal rise in the Latrobe River, which, has flooded the brown coal mine at Morwell, work there has been suspended. The floor at the bottom of the ...

    Article : 80 words
  7. Victoria's Intervention.

    A more confident tone regarding the issue of the strike marked the discussion of the situation by the State Cabinet yesterday. At the start of the discussion the ...

    Article : 515 words
  8. Attitude of Seamen.

    A meeting of the Victorian branch of the Seamen's Federation of Australia was held in the wharf laborer's' building last evening. Many seamen, the married men ...

    Article : 224 words
  9. "Ask the Wharf Laborers!"

    Members of the Federated Mining Employes' Association of Australia, after months of waiting during the hearing of evidence on their plaint for increased wages ...

    Article : 244 words
  10. CAPTURE OF VIMY RIDGE.

    Through the courtesy of the Foreign Office and the War Office the London correspondents of some of the chief newspapers in the Overseas Dominions were ...

    Article : 2,000 words
  11. Contributions to Strike Fund.

    It was reported in well-informed circles yesterday that the Common wealth Government has under consideration the early promulgation of a regulation, under ...

    Article : 58 words
  12. RUSH OF VOLUNTEERS.

    Yesterday 503 men called at the National Service Bureau seeking employment, and 288 were engaged. The officer in charge (Mr. G. Whitehead) stated that these ...

    Article : 154 words
  13. GERMANY IN SOUTH SEAS

    In a remarkable article on the subject of Germany's former possessions in the Pacific, the "Bertiner Tageblatt" states:—"New Guinea and Samoa before the war ...

    Article : 193 words
  14. ON THE WATER FRONT.

    Over a thousand volunteer workers were employed along the water front yesterday. About 512 men were employed amongst mine oversea steamers and four sailing ...

    Article : 206 words
  15. Sixteen Thousand Persons Idle

    Statistics supplied to the joint meeting of the Federal and State national committees yesterday by Mr. H. M. Murphy, Secretary for Labor, show that there are ...

    Article : 122 words
  16. A "FREE" LABORERS' UNION.

    The Minister of Agriculture stated last night that the Wheat Commission had been informed of a proposal to form a union of the wheat stacker engaged at Brooklyn. ...

    Article : 36 words
  17. EMPLOYERS' ORGANISATIONS.

    Meetings of the Employers' Federation, Timber Merchants' Association, Master Carriers' Association, Box Makers' Association and other employers' organisations ...

    Article : 107 words
  18. THE JUTLAND NAVAL BRUSH.

    A later message from Copenhagen gives further details of the naval "incident" on Saturday off the coast of Jutland, in which British light forces sank four German ...

    Article : 142 words
  19. Storemen and Packers.

    Though there are many thousands of storemen and packers employed in Melbourne, it does not appear that more than 200 have been directly affected by ...

    Article : 155 words
  20. WHARF LABORERS.

    Questioned yesterday as to whether there was any immediate likelihood of the Victorian Wharf Laborers returning to work, Mr. E. Jones, president of the union, said ...

    Article : 322 words
  21. Enemy Socialists' Conference.

    A conference of representatives of the Socialists of Germany and Austria was held in Vienna, Herren Schiedemann and Ebert representing the German Majority ...

    Article : 171 words
  22. Union Defence Committee.

    A meeting of the union defence committee was held yesterday morning, but there was no meeting in the afternoon, and the deliberations after lunch were confined ...

    Article : 197 words
  23. State Ship Yards.

    An example that might well be followed by another unionists was set yesterday by the boiler makers, who last week left their work at the State ship yards. It was the ...

    Article : 158 words
  24. Drivers' Strike Extending.

    There were significant developments yesterday in connection with the attitude of the carters and drivers, and the indications point to the whole of the transportation ...

    Article : 377 words
  25. THE IDEAL OF DEMOCRACY.

    President Wilson, in letters to Mr. Samuel Compers, president of the American Federation of Labor, praising the coming conference of the Alliance of labor ...

    Article : 166 words
  26. HORSE SHUNTERS CEASE WORK.

    Yesterday morning about fifteen employes of Mr D. Vaughan, carrier, who have been engaged in house shunting operations at the Spencer street goods shed, ...

    Article : 71 words
  27. GERMANY'S INTERNAL PLIGHT.

    Advices from Berne state that the epidemic of dysentery which is general throughout Germany and Austria is attributed to malnutrition. Even patients are ...

    Article : 106 words
  28. Mr. Justice Higgins's Attitude.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), in his capacity as Attorney-General, commented last night on the observations of Mr. Justice Higgins in the Arbitration ...

    Article : 518 words
  29. REICHSTAG "UNDEMOCRATIC."

    The pan-Germans are making an effort to dissolve the Reichstag. The leading Junker newspaper declare that the Reichstag does not represent the people, and are ...

    Article : 98 words
  30. WONTHAGGI MINERS.

    WONTHAGGI.—A special general meeting of Wonthaggi branch of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employes' Association was held on Monday afternoon to discuss ...

    Article : 389 words
  31. RAILWAY UNION PRESIDENTS SPEECH.

    The Railway Commissioner yesterday called upon Mr. F. W. Sear, president of the Victorian Railways Union and an employe in the printing and stationery ...

    Article : 143 words
  32. Conflicting Views of Governor and Mayor.

    Mayor Thompson, of Chicago, permitted the "People's Council" to open a peace conference in the city, and ordered the police to protect the meeting. Governor ...

    Article : 63 words
  33. Germany's Difficulties.

    The following statement is made by the Paris "Matin':—"Despite the apparent successes gained by the Central Power against Russia, the enemy is in a most difficult ...

    Article : 87 words
  34. PRICE OF FOOD IN ENGLAND.

    A national conference at Leeds of delegates of the engineering and allied trades, representing 200,000 unionists, has passed a motion demanding that the price of the ...

    Article : 96 words
  35. FIGHTING ON MONASTIR FRONT.

    "The French," a German official message says "strongly attacked near Monastir. We wiped out or took prisoner those penetrating our lines. Servian attacks at ...

    Article : 41 words
  36. BLACKMAIL ALLEGED.

    It is reported that a hotelkeeper who has normally a fairly extensive patronage from a section of the men now on strike was given the alternative of contributing ...

    Article : 64 words
  37. THE PROSPECTS.

    Many hundreds of those affected by the strike assembled at the Trades Hall yesterday. Members of the Carters and Drivers' Union who are unemployed because of ...

    Article : 188 words
  38. English Coast Again Raided.

    Hostile aeroplanes crossed the coast of East Kent at 11 p.m. on Sunday. They returned seaward, but a few minutes later a few bombs were dropped. Only two ...

    Article : 65 words
  39. IRON CROSS FOR BERNSTORFF

    The Hague correspondent of New York "Times" reports that the Kaiser has personally presented Count von Bernatorff with the iron cross suspended upon a white ...

    Article : 43 words
  40. The Women and Children.

    One of the saddest features of the strike is the suffering occasioned among the families of the men who have thrown up their employment The pinch is already being ...

    Article : 129 words
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  42. GENERAL CABLES.

    Eleven German prisoners who escaped from internment camps in England and Scotland have been recaptured. ...

    Article : 21 words
  43. SWISS CHOCOLATE FOR THE ALLIES.

    Switzerland has agreed to reduce her ex-portation of 4,600,000 lb. of chocolate to the Central Powers to 2,400,000 lb., and to divert the surplus to the Allies. ...

    Article : 35 words
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