About 200 members of the A.M.A. assembled at the mines on Saturday afternoon to consider the best means for supporting the men on strike in connection with the maritime dispute. ...
Article : 206 wordsMr. T. Parry, who was one of the delegates lately sent from the head-qUarters of the Mercantile Marine Officers' Association in Melbourne to Port Adelaide, and who has been ...
Article : 82 wordsIn the Assembly Mr. Cock put on the Paper the motion—"That it is desirable that a measure should at once be introduced to this House by the Government to provide a means ...
Article : 144 wordsAs this steamer is under charter to the Adelaide Steamship Company at the present time it was generally supposed that the Company were making a direct loss. On being spoken ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Working Mens Association have decided to allow the lumpers to handle the cargo of the intercolonial steamer Hesketh, which they refused to discharge, and which was, ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steamer Britannia got away without any trouble being occasioned by the stevedores. Amongst other cargo she took ...
Article : 36 wordsA Melbourne correspondent writes, dating on Sunday last:—"People are now beginning to feel the effects of the strike, especially in their domestic arrangements, and the ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Gas Company have announced by advertisement that unless a fresh supply of coal can be obtained before Wednesday, the 10th inst., no gas will be supplied after that date, and ...
Article : 293 wordsThe stoppage of gas during the day is likely to have a serious effect on several industries. Many factories will have to shorten hands and where gas-engines are used the ...
Article : 39 wordsIn many quarters the objection of the owners to the officers affiliating with the labour bodies has been considered to be imaginary, and it has been stated over and over again that until ...
Article : 272 wordsOn Thursday afternoon the Employers' Union held a meeting and decided to appoint Messrs. A. L. Harrold (President), J. Darling, jun., and J. W. Colton delegates to the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Victorian arrived at the wharf at 7 a.m., and the crew at once gave notice. This came as no surprise; it was a foregone conclusion. The Victorian brought 400 tons of coal from ...
Article : 254 wordsMr. Frederick Humphries, Secretary of the Steamship-owners' Association, received (says the Melbourne Argus) the following, cable message from London on Saturday morning:— ...
Article : 178 wordsThe s.s. Duckerfield, from Glasgow, cast anchor at Glenelg at about 6 o'clock on Friday evening, but the captain on being informed of the shipping difficulty decided ...
Article : 50 wordsGeneral trade at the Fort is dull in consequence of the strike, and merchants and small tradespeople are complaining that their trade is falling off rapidly. There is ...
Article : 195 wordsAll round there seems to be a general feeling of depression and a disinclination to go into any speculation in business matters. This is especially noticeable in the soft goods line. ...
Article : 347 wordsWhen the crisis in the shipping trade was unmistakably dose at hand we gave full particulars both from the owners and men's point of view, explaining what the demands of the ...
Article : 761 wordsMr. Trenwith, M.L.A., speaking to a meeting of railway employes, who are agitating for the payment of the extra sixpence per day passed last session (according to the ...
Article : 332 wordsThe steamer Age left for Melbourne on Wednesday afternoon, slipping her moorings shortly before 5 p.m., and proceeded down the river under easy steam. There was no ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Trades Hall Council seems determined to stick at nothing (says the Argus of Wednesday) in its efforts to prevent the employment of those who are not Unionists. The last two ...
Article : 333 wordsThe Secretary of the Trades and Labour Council contradicted a statement appearing in the Register to the effect that Broken Hill supplies would be allowed to pass. ...
Article : 226 wordsThe following is the full text of Sir Alfred Stephen's "Bill for the Protection of Labourers under Engagement to Perform Work," which was read in the New South Wales Legislative ...
Article : 359 wordsOwing to the holiday there were no developments in the strike at Port Adelaide. The Anchor Liner Culgoa arrived about 8 o'clock on Monday morning, and took up a berth at ...
Article : 665 wordsThe following notice was issued on Friday by the Dry Creek Smelting and Refining Company to all their clients:—"Owing to the very uncertain state of the labour and shipping ...
Article : 217 wordsThe following letter was received from the Secretary of the Trades and Labour Council by the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce at 12.30 p.m. on Wednesday:—"Selborne Hotel, ...
Article : 429 wordsThe Tasmanian Government have telegraphed to the South Australian Ministry asking if they will agree to the Bill introduced by Sir Alfred Stephen in New South ...
Article : 158 wordsAt a meeting of boot manufacturers held on the 3rd inst. to consider the question of the Gas Company failing to supply gas for manufacturing power, they decided to do all they ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 6 Sep 1890, Page 31
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