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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsMr. 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 wordsOwing 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 wordsA 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 wordsA 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 wordsMembers 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 wordsThrough 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 wordsIt was reported in well-informed circles yesterday that the Common wealth Government has under consideration the early promulgation of a regulation, under ...
Article : 58 wordsYesterday 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 wordsIn 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 wordsOver 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 wordsStatistics 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 wordsThe 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 wordsMeetings of the Employers' Federation, Timber Merchants' Association, Master Carriers' Association, Box Makers' Association and other employers' organisations ...
Article : 107 wordsA 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 wordsThough 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 wordsQuestioned 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 wordsA conference of representatives of the Socialists of Germany and Austria was held in Vienna, Herren Schiedemann and Ebert representing the German Majority ...
Article : 171 wordsA 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 wordsAn 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 wordsThere 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 wordsPresident 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 wordsYesterday 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 wordsAdvices from Berne state that the epidemic of dysentery which is general throughout Germany and Austria is attributed to malnutrition. Even patients are ...
Article : 106 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsWONTHAGGI.—A special general meeting of Wonthaggi branch of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employes' Association was held on Monday afternoon to discuss ...
Article : 389 wordsThe 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 wordsMayor 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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"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 wordsIt 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 wordsMany 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 wordsHostile 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 wordsThe 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 wordsOne 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 ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 4 Sep 1917, Page 4
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