The whole community is now experiencing the acuteness of the position created by the railway crisis. The meat export season has closed abruptly and the wool sales have been postponed. Widespread unemployment is threatened. There is no immediate fear of a strike by the Transport Workers' Union, but at a meeting last night the members of that union decided to stand by the railwaymen if called upon. ...
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Article : 493 words"Honour your signature and save your country from mob rule and chaos." This advice was given to-day by Mr. Blair, a prominent railway ...
Article : 352 wordsAlready the acuteness of the position caused by the crisis in the railways is being felt by other industries. Many of these depend upon supplies ...
Article : 170 wordsPrimary producers who met at Crow's Nest yesterday in connection with the proposed establishment of an Agrarian Union in Queensland, decided ...
Article : 170 wordsAt a meeting of the Queensland Railway Traffic Employees' Union management, held at the Railway Institute, last night, with Mr. J. B. Harding ...
Article : 135 wordsRumours were current yesterday that members of the Brisbane branch of the Amalgamated Road Transport Workers' Union would strike in ...
Article : 195 wordsROCKHAMPTON, September 7. Local farmers are bitter towards the A.R.U. leaders. "Why, the railwaymen don't know ...
Article : 221 wordsThe cessation of the railway service has created a very grave situation at Morven. Had a large consignment of lucerne not arrived previously for Mr. ...
Article : 151 wordsMall services were running as smoothly as possible, said the Deputy Director of Post and Telegraphs (Mr. J. W. Stilton) last night. ...
Article : 87 wordsAfter sitting for two hours yesterday afternoon, the South Johnstone and Railways Disputes Committee despatched the following telegrams to ...
Article : 194 wordsThe augmented fleets of tramcars and motor buses are managing, without great inconvenience, to cope with the increased passenger traffic in the ...
Article : 176 wordsThe district superintendent of traffic (Mr. Deacon) has been besieged by inquiries from farmers in the district regarding trains for the removal of ...
Article : 178 wordsMall services on the Downs are generally running smoothly, and with reasonable regularity, according to the district postal inspector (Mr. D. G. ...
Article : 269 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. S. M. Bruce) yesterday referred to the Queensland dispute in the following terms: "The action of some of the ...
Article : 174 wordsIt is understood that arrangements have been made to shift perishable goods in the idle trucks. Confusing instructions have been ...
Article : 264 wordsSeveral hundred railwaymen marched through the city this morning on the way to the Stadium, where a mass meeting was held. The men were ...
Article : 116 wordsLarge stocks of timber are held in Brisbane, and so far the railway stoppage has not caused inconvenience to the building trade, according to a ...
Article : 97 wordsAt a mass meeting of railway workers, attended by 400 men, including representatives from outside centres and the Tablelands, a motion ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. J. S. Garden, secretary of the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council, has arrived in Brisbane, and yesterday was in consultation with ...
Article : 36 wordsThe dismissed railwaymen have not yer received their pay. In the ordinary course the fortnightly pay would have been made to-day. ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Wed 7 Sep 1927, Page 9
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