The labour market at Rookhampton is remarkably quiet so far as regards applications for work. At the Government Bureau for the week ended August 31 only 14 applications, ...
Article : 1,053 wordsThe following is said to be a genuine report of the fight at Yashan:—The Chinese general, thinking that the position of the camp was not a good one, decided to move to Tohyewan, not ...
Article : 173 wordsTelegrams have been received from Winton announcing that early on Saturday morning (12.30 a.m.) the firing of a dozen shots aroused seven men who were watching inside Dagworth ...
Article : 203 wordsThe following is the Japanese account of the battle at Sukwan: The Japanese army took up its position in a pine forest some 600 metres away from the enemy in entrenchment. It ...
Article : 890 wordsAt the St. George Police Court, on August 25, James Wilson was charged by the police with intimidating shearers at Whyenbah, on the 13th of that month. After evidence had ...
Article : 49 wordsThe conduct of the men at Warnamhool, which is shearing under union rates (writes tho Winton correspondent of a contemporary), does not tend to throw a very favourable ...
Article : 69 wordsFrom personal observations while travelling through the strike localities, it appears that unionists are controlled by cliques, principally larrikius. A large number of respectable ...
Article : 126 wordsIt is officilly, announced on behalf of the shearers that camps are being broken up with the object of carrying on the strike on entirely different lines to those on which it has hitherto ...
Article : 40 wordsThe shearing strike in the Hillston district is practically over, most of the sheds working under the conference or the verbal agreement. The unionists in the Guudagai district ...
Article : 986 wordsA ballot of the members of tho Central Warrego Carriers' Union is to be taken as to the advisability of dissolving the union. A reward of £100 is offered by the Warrego ...
Article : 61 wordsA private letter received in Brishane from a station outside cf Adavale, and dated August 22, contains the following: "Shearing was started here on August 4 with 14 shearers; ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Colonial Secretary is in receipt of a communication from Tangorin, from magistrates, asking that further police asaistance may be afforded for the district in view of the attitude ...
Article : 47 wordsShearing is going on satisfactorily at sheds already reported as started (says the St. Gemago Slandard of August 31). On the 2lst all hands signed at Newinga, now agreement, and ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Fri 7 Sep 1894, Page 13
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