At a conference of the Waterside Workers' Federation to-day, a motion was passed in favor of bringing into existence a union covering the whole ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. S. M. Bruce) to-day declined a request from a deputation of the Roman Catholic laity of the Commonwealth, that ...
Article : 507 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 191 wordsThe correspondent of the Australian Press Association at Geneva, states that while there is criticism among sensation seekers, that the ...
Article : 289 wordsSix convicts were killed, another fatally wounded and eight injured in a pitched battle at the State penitentiary when the convicts attemped to ...
Article : 37 wordsM. Briand's speech at Geneva has terribly shocked Berlin political circles, as the German correspondents have wired the newspapers the ...
Article : 156 wordsIn order to prevent a Communist anti-military demonstration, troops accupied the working-class suburb of St. Denis, when 1500 arrests were ...
Article : 44 wordsThe position on the waterfront to-day was practically the same as yesterday, no men being employed in discharging cargo on the vessels. ...
Article : 99 wordsA terrible collision is reported to have occurred at Lunderburg, where the Berlin to Vienna express, travelling at a great speed, crashed into a ...
Article : 80 wordsThe objections of the Waterside Workers' Union to the new award are contained in an official statement issued to-day, as follows : Much to the ...
Article : 232 wordsAs yet the waterfront trouble in Brisbane has not extended to other organisations. The secretary of the Amalgamated ...
Article : 147 wordsThe 'Daily Chronicle' states that Russia is suffering from an epidemic of secret societies, and the Bolshevist dictator is fighting hard against the ...
Article : 157 wordsReferring to the Rhineland occupation, in a bitter speech at Mainz, Guerard, Minister for Transport, described the French statements--that ...
Article : 97 wordsUnder an amending measure introduced in the Legislative Asembly to-day, a 60 per cent, vote, instead of a two-thirds majority as hitherto, ...
Article : 718 wordsM. Griand participated in the league of Nations Assembly's general discussion. His speech lasted an hour and a half, and was delivered ...
Article : 584 wordsM. Briand, in a statement to the journalists, expressed surprise that the speech had produced a commotion. He explained that he did not intend to ...
Article : 94 wordsThe following statement was made to-day by the chairman of the Over seas Shipping Representatives' Association (Mr. Trousdale). ...
Article : 527 words"Compulsory arbitration has proved a failure, and unless there is a nation-wide movement in favor of an open shop, as was the case in ...
Article : 380 wordsThe publication of Ralph Strauss's book, "Charles Dickens," has given a fresh impetus to the Dickens controversy. Strauss, who is the director ...
Article : 319 wordsSir Douglas Mawson, the Antarctic explorer who will return to Adelaide to September [?] to secure Captain Scott's ship, the ...
Article : 98 wordsIt is understood that a petition is being prepared and circulated in most of the sugar districts of Queensland, and it is quite certain that a ...
Article : 209 wordsMr. George Eastman, of the Kodak Company, some time ago undertook to give £200,000 for a new dental clinic for the Royal Free Hospital, London, ...
Article : 152 wordsThe present position on the waterfront, and the holding up of shipping is causing a considerable amount of anxiety with regard to the meat ...
Article : 268 wordsMrs. Victor Bruce, a motorist, crossed the Channel in an outboard motor-boat in 85 minutes. ...
Article : 21 wordsAt a meeting of business men it was decided to support the establishment of a Diploma of Commerce at the University. It is estimated ...
Article : 77 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 81 wordsAs a result of the hold-up of the River Gambia at Cairns, which was expected to load maize, the Atherton maize pool to-day decided to call a ...
Article : 151 wordsThe steamer Loongana had a narrow escape from drifting on to the sand at Port Phillip to-day, as a result of her coal running out during a ...
Article : 183 wordsThe waterside trouble is viewed with concern by the Federal Government, particularly in view of the delay in the despatch of wool, the ...
Article : 116 wordsMackay experienced its first waterside trouble for the year yesterday morning, when watersiders ceased operations on the waterfront soon ...
Article : 87 wordsUnder the Royal Automobile Club's official observation, a heavily laden major-lorry travelled and from London to Beaconsfield and returned, a ...
Article : 50 wordsThe position in ports thoughout Queensland remained unaltered to-day. The only ports working to-day were Rockhampton and Gladstone ...
Article : 63 words[?] [?]tion's executive in South Australia have appointed officers to discuss with the Disputes Committee of the ...
Article : 61 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Wed 12 Sep 1928, Page 10
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: