The enginemen's refusal of the Government offer makes the outlook black. The waterside, and tramway workers are restive, and the telegraphists and ...
Article : 683 wordsAmong the motions to be moved at the A.L.P. Conference are:-- That both Federal and State election days be made public holidays, to be paid for by the ...
Article : 189 wordsThieves gained admission to the booking office at the Strathfield railway station last night. They chloroformed the booking clerk and removed £600 from a ...
Article : 204 wordsA report issued by the committee appointed by the Foreign Office considers tho means whereby to foster a greater spirit of solidarity, amongst British communities ...
Article : 235 wordsThe celebrations were described as the most extensive in the history of British trades unions. Thousands of miners, dockers, builders, factorymen, ...
Article : 103 wordsRenter's Berlin correspondent telegraphed on Friday that replying to the German note of April 14 the Reparations Commission pointed out to Germany that ...
Article : 170 words"The Times" Manchester correspondent telegraphed on Saturday that despite the mutual concessions the negotiations with the cotton mill operatives were ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Bristol tramways are dismissing the girl conductors with a week's salary and a gratuity of £5 with a view to replaying them by ex-service men. The drivers ...
Article : 62 wordsFifty thousand persons were present in Hyde Park to-day. The crowds were orderly, and the most notable democratisation of democracy was the large numbers ...
Article : 206 wordsThe railwaymen's central executive denounces the unauthorised "ea' canny" movement, and it is discussing "strong measures" to enforce discipline. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Lloyd George, replying to Mr. Asquith, said the Allies were anxious in the interest of all, including Germany, of shortening the suspense. As regards ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. Lang, State Treasurer, speaking at the Clyde Engineering Co.'s annual picnic, declared: Mr. David Hall is a deadly enemy to my party, so how could we ...
Article : 174 wordsIn connection with the Strathfield robbery, two arrests were made to-day. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe "ea canny " railway strike was unauthorised, the executive merely experimenting with the release of rule 55 of regulations, requiring a driver to walk to ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. Oakley, acting Comptroller-General of Trade and Customs, has received a cablegram form High Commissioner relative to the proposed sale to the ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Army Council refused to permit Bisley marksmen to use the service rifle with the barrel packed with a view to cheeking vibration. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Ministry for Defence has issued a statement, regarding German war stores. There a re 478 heavy and 430 light guns at present, at Koenigsberg. The Entente ...
Article : 101 wordsA War Office statement announces that the Russians have accepted the Japanese Siberian terms, except the surrender of warships, which the Japanese waived. ...
Article : 35 wordsIn Hyde Park, speeches of all shades were made, notably one on a platform were English. French, Spanish, Russian, Yiddish, and Esperanto were used. At a ...
Article : 176 wordsChristophe Fowler appeared before the Blarney police court to-day on a charge of murdering William Jones. Wm. Cowles, gun expert, declared that ...
Article : 104 words"The Times" city editor on Friday, recalling his February opinions, deplores Queensland's Land Amendments Bill, which he fears is a repudiation of ...
Article : 74 wordsThe busmen have renewed their demands for an increase of 10 weekly. The employers adhere to their offer of 5. The union declares that the situation ...
Article : 48 wordsand the list will probably can. beyond 30. VANCOUVER, Friday. ...
Article : 136 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Manning River Musical Festival Society, Mr. J. T. Wilson was re-elected president and Mr. David Drake secretary. A strong ...
Article : 287 wordsOwing to the striking dockers in Holland resuming work, the British Transport Workers' Federation has raised the sympathetic embargo on the loading, discharging, manning, and bunkering of Dutch-owned and Dutch-bound ships in ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is stated that, with a view to defeating May Day strikes, the Government has decided to take over the control of all underground and other communications. ...
Article : 120 wordsThe pound sterling is now, at 3.83¾ dollars (16.). ...
Article : 21 wordsA mass meeting of the A.M.A. at Broken Hill, after the report of the delegates to the Melbourne conference had been read, decided to fight on until ...
Article : 84 wordsThe "Echo de Paris" has received a message from Stockholm which states that Petrograd will be henceforth known as Leningrad. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe "Despatch" states Bishop Welldon, says the clergy must and will raise their voices in protest at the insufficiency of dress, whether in higher or lower ...
Article : 72 wordsPeople wearing overalls have appeared in the city, of both sexes, as a protest against the high prices. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Polish Government has officially recognised Patlura's Government, and acknowledged the right of Ukraine to independence. Pilsudski has issued a ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Paris railway strike is not serious and is restricted to the service. Street traffic is negligible and soldiers and police with tanks are stationed at the Gare ...
Article : 193 wordsIt transpires that a meeting of union presidents and secretaries, held in the Trades Hall last night, made it clear that it favored arbitration as against direct ...
Article : 58 wordsThere was a military procession through the city streets in honor of General Birdwood on Saturday morning. The route was lined with members of the citizen ...
Article : 146 wordsAntwerp wool sales of May 7 have been postponed to May 21 owing, to delay in arrival of Berlin and local trains. Vehicle shops and factories are closed ...
Article : 78 wordsAt Oxford, addressing the Liberals, Lady Bonham-Carter said the Prime Minister asks us to join the Tories, who had lost their greatest opportunity with ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Industrial Registrar was engaged to-day with the application of the Public Service Association for registration as an industrial union; also with the application ...
Article : 70 wordsSir.-- An error crept into my letter in your issue of Saturday in connection with the above question, which I hasten to correct. ...
Article : 278 words"The Times," in a leader, says that the Poles' heavy defeat of the Bolshevists may affect the whole of Eastern Europe. The fall of Kieff will be determined by ...
Article : 94 wordsSpeaking at the Labor Day gathering in the Trades Hall, on Saturday, the Acting Premier, Mr. Fihelly, forecasted some possible legislation for the next ...
Article : 133 words"The Times" Cape Town correspondent, telegraphed on Saturday that the Labor members declined to be made the cat's paw of the Nationalists, and walked out ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Minister for the Navy, referring to the decision of the boilermakers, plumbers, and shipwrights employed at Cockatoo Dockyard and Garden Island not to work ...
Article : 108 words"The Times" Paris correspondent telegraphed on Friday that France's anxiety is lessened because of a quarrel between the railwaymen and transport workers, ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Mayor of Brisbane (Alderman Maxwell), in a speech of welcome, stated that no greater compliment could be paid Australians than the future appointment ...
Article : 37 wordsPlans for the full diplomatic representation of Canada in Washington are now before "President Wilson, and until he has acted on them it is not expected that any ...
Article : 103 words"The Times" Dublin correspondent telegraphed on Friday that a gang removed vast stores of military equipment from trucks at the railway station at ...
Article : 48 wordsA deputation of temporary clerks in the Public Service brought a series of grievances under the notice of the Attorney General. Included in the demands was ...
Article : 73 wordsMay Day passed off quietly in the United States. The strikes here and there were unimportant, and there was no violence. The authorities claim that the ...
Article : 82 wordsTwo boys were driving a lorry across a crossing at Temora when it collided with a mail train, which struck the lorry, just clear of the horse. The impact cut ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Coal and Shale Miners' Council carried a resolution that the executive endeavor to convene a conference between representatives of the waterside workers, ...
Article : 135 wordsMasked raiders robbed a mail car m a Limerick suburb, aud it is reported that a large sum of pension money was stolen. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture fears that about two hundred men will have to be discharged from the Murrumbidgee irrigation area next Wednesday unless a ...
Article : 52 wordsCaptain Roald Amundsen, the Arctic explorer, in a message to "The Times," probably written at Christmas, describes the wintering of his party at Chelysukin, ...
Article : 108 wordsHarry Reed was standing in Abercrombie street last night when lie was wounded in the head by a revolver bullet. ...
Article : 28 wordsTwelve thousand miners struck at Sydney in Nova Scotia as a protest against the imprisonment of the Winnipeg strike leaders. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe State Savings Bank has issued a statement showing that there are 2,489,487 depositors in the Commonwealth, the total amount of the deposits being ...
Article : 103 wordsLeslie Norman, 30, was run over by a motor lorry at Concord and killed instantly. Deceased was riding a bicycle at the time. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe building trade is at a standstill today owing fo the decision of the members of the unions against Saturday work. ...
Article : 30 wordsA thousand Chicago families are on a rest strike, refusing to vacate their apartments in accordance with May Day moving orders. Tenants from the league ...
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Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), Mon 3 May 1920, Page 3
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