Mr C. Crofts, secretary of the Federated Gas Employes' Union, stated today that work was being carried out amicably at the various Gas ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Masters and Engineers' Association has reaffirmed its decision to remain neutral in regard to the strike. ...
Article : 95 wordsMr E. J. Holloway's statement of the reason for the strike, as published in "The Herald" last night, at a superficial glance presents an appearance of ...
Article : 839 wordsMr G. G. Haldane, Director-General of National Services, today supplied a report to Mr W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister, denying that either he or Mr ...
Article : 397 wordsMr. Hughes stated, in the House of Representatives today, that wharf laborers would be employed if they attended at the ...
Article : 91 wordsMany men were unable to gain admittance today to the Town Hall, which was overcrowded by members of eight important craft unions, ...
Article : 167 wordsEvery day the output of coal improves, and the possibility of a fuel famine is rapidly becoming more remote as the men get used to the work. ...
Article : 370 wordsA circular has been issued by the Melbourne District Committee of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers regarding the strike. The society is ...
Article : 501 wordsVolunteers on the water front today numbered 1179, being 67 more than were employed yesterday. On 10 oversea steamers and five ...
Article : 281 wordsLeonard R. Preston writes from Howe Crescent, Albert Park: -- Mr E. J. Holloway, in his explanation of the "Reasons for the Strike," starts ...
Article : 395 wordsOnly the engineers at the Clyde Engineering works are idle. They number about 70. The remainder of the staff, which consists of about 500 men, is ...
Article : 61 words"No instructions have been issued to this department," said Mr S. Whitehead this morning, at the National Labor Bureau, "that unionists will ...
Article : 154 wordsMore than 100 members of the Timber Workers' Union employed at the Cooperative Box Factory, Balmain, struck this morning. ...
Article : 55 wordsIt is not intended to reduce further the country and suburban train services until after the week-end meeting of coalminers at Wonthaggi. It is not ...
Article : 110 wordsThere are now 6153 country national workers in Sydney. They are all at work, and the demand for their labor is in excess of the supply. Further ...
Article : 43 words"The whole position is as difficult as can be, and we are dealing with it in the best way we can," remarked Mr. J. Cook, in the House of ...
Article : 175 wordsAmong wharf laborers this morning the principal topic of discussion was the action of Mr Justice Higgins in striking out the preference clauses in the ...
Article : 95 wordsImproved tram services are to be run this evening, and late trains will also run for the benefit of Friday night shoppers. There will be no special ...
Article : 41 wordsYesterday Mr J. Cook, Minister for the Navy, stated that unionists had refused duty on hospital ships, and today he acknowledged in the House of ...
Article : 79 wordsAssistants in the wholesale grocery trade who went out are returning to work. Several of the wholesale firms are now working with full staffs of ...
Article : 41 wordsIn order to conserve power and light, many street lamps in the suburbs were extinguished last night. The streets were in partial darkness. ...
Article : 29 wordsAfter the meeting of the State National Service Committee today, it was stated officially that reports showed that the arrangements made for ...
Article : 185 wordsAt the conclusion of the meeting of the Unions Defence Committee, which continued its sittings at the Trades Hall this morning, it was announced ...
Article : 59 wordsArthur Lewis, organiser, of Grace and Collier streets, West Brunswick, was charged at the City Court today with having, on August 24, contrary to the ...
Article : 355 wordsMembers of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers are working as usual in Victoria, and the unemployed books of the society show that ...
Article : 172 wordsThe building in Sussex street which was the headquarters of the Industrial Workers of the World, is now in possession of a bailiff, and unless ...
Article : 54 words"Technologist" writes from St. Kilda: -- Like "G.F.C.," I think that inquiry ought to be made into causes of ...
Article : 436 wordsA batch of 20 painters was added this morning to the list of those already employed on a Commonwealth transport berthed at the Williamstown Graving ...
Article : 30 wordsCritic writes: -- So Mr M. Blackburn, M.L.A., won't fight. As I rather expected, he abuses me, but he does not even attempt to answer my arguments. ...
Article : 119 wordsWhen Reginald James Wearne, national worker, appeared before the Newtown Police Court today, on a charge of having slain Mervyn ...
Article : 39 wordsThere are now 21,434 persons in Victoria affected by the strike. According to the figures made available today by the Labor Department, ...
Article : 95 wordsAt the meeting of the committee of the Newcastle Jockey Club last night a motion was carried that the secretary, in forwarding a letter to the ...
Article : 275 wordsTo satisfy himself that reasonable progress is being made with the preparations for increasing the output from the State brown coal mine at Morwell, ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Master Carriers' Association has placed an order with the National Bureau for 150 man for immediate requirements. This order is being filled as ...
Article : 11 wordsAlex. Surtees (Essendon) writes: -- I would like to remark, to "Tact," your correspondent of last evening's issue, that the most "commonsense" ...
Article : 151 wordsIn the Senate this morning Senator A. Gardiner (N.S.W.) asked Senator E. D. Millen, Vice-President of the Executive Council, the following question: -- ...
Article : 100 wordsIn the course of a valuable analysis of the real meaning of Nominal Capital, Mr J. R. Butchart, writing in THE ...
Article : 82 wordsThere was a further extension of the strike at the Dunlop rubber works yesterday afternoon, when all the rim markers and wire workers ceased work. ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Fri 7 Sep 1917, Page 1
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