Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen has formed a Provisional Government. A declaration of war against Germany and Austria has been issued. ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the Senate to-day Senator Gardiner, Leader of the Opposition, moved the adjournment of the Senate to discuss the advisability of the Government taking ...
Article : 1,065 wordsThe Premier (Mr. H. B. Lefroy), accompanied by the Colonial Treasurer (Mr. James Gardiner) and the Attorney-General (Mr. R. T. Robinson), will leave the city ...
Article : 1,667 wordsAt a meeting of the National Federation to-night telegrams were received intimating that Senators Lynch, Buzacott, and Henderson would assist the National ...
Article : 782 wordsA fine dramatic feature of the times is "A Place in the Sun," now being screened at Lean's Perth Palladium. Mr. Malcolm Cherry, one of London's popular actors, is ...
Article : 1,083 wordsAnother quiet day was experienced at Fremantle yesterday, when volunteers on the wharves continued the usual routine of loading and discharging vessels. There ...
Article : 386 wordsIn a statement to-night Mr. Fuller said that after the last general elections a series of secret meetings was held in Sydney and an elaborate plan was prepared for the ...
Article : 197 wordsA war precautions regulation was issued to-night, giving the Government power to cancel a provision in agreements relating to preference in employment. The ...
Article : 174 wordsParliament sat all last night. Discussing the railway vote on the Estimates, the Leader of the Opposition said that in several declarations by the Government ...
Article : 242 wordsThe Minister for the Nevy (Mr. Cook) stated to-day that he had been informed that the stokers on an outward-bound hospital ship had struck work, because ...
Article : 102 wordsThere are many unionists now on strike at Fremantle for no other reason than a false idea of loyalty to other unionists. One need only listen to street corner ...
Article : 256 wordsApplications which were made to Mr. Justice Higgins in the Arbitration Court last week to deregister, the Waterside Workers' Federation as an organisation ...
Article : 434 wordsTo-day many persons refused to work in cases where volunteer labour had been employed in the handling of goods. As the employers generally are fixed in their ...
Article : 579 wordsReferring to the strike at Broken Hill at the half-yearly meeting of the North Broken Hill, Ltd., the chairman of directors (Mr. W. M. Hyndman) said that the effect ...
Article : 327 wordsTwo big fires occurred in Sydney to-day. This morning a fire broke out amongst a thousand tons of copra in the Harbour Trust shed at Miller's Point. A large ...
Article : 180 wordsThe s.s. Dimboola has left Melbourne for Fremantle with a full shipment of cargo, including a consignment of butter, but no word has yet been received as to ...
Article : 176 wordsA meeting of the Perth recruiting committee was held last night, Mr. W. F. Lathlain presiding. It was decided to hold a meeting ...
Article : 115 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Tudor), moved the adjournment of the House to discuss the circumstances of the strike. He ...
Article : 1,229 wordsThere were no developments to-day in connection with railway matters. —The Premier stated that he had not received any reply from the combined unions in the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe firemen of a steamer now in port who gave 24 hours' notice have been paid off and left for Perth by yesterday's train. A shipping authority states that it has ...
Article : 198 wordsIn the Arbitration Court to-day Mr. Justice Higgins directed that the order made last week striking out clause 9 of the Waterside Workers' award, 1915, should ...
Article : 901 wordsThe High Court to-day allowed the appeal respecting a claim by Joseph Christopher Gelling, of Temora, agains: Crespin and Sons, of Melbourne. The ...
Article : 111 wordsIt was rumoured in Adelaide to-day that the tramwaymen would probably come out on strike in sympathy with the employees in Sydney. Mr. Hill (the Federal ...
Article : 59 wordsTwo days ago the following food suppies were held by the local stores:—12 bags of sugar, 11 50lb. bags of flour, less than two cases of onions, practically no ...
Article : 404 wordsThere was a large attendance at the East Fremantle Town Hall on Wednesday night last, when a children's plain and fancy dress ball was held in aid of the ...
Article : 158 wordsFirearms have again been used by and against the loyalist workers. An oil punt was drawing into Miller's Point wharf this afternoon, when a shot was fired at a ...
Article : 418 wordsThe waterside workers are working as usual at Port Augusta, but the railway strike is complicated. On Tuesday the A.W.U. decided to return to work, and 70 ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 7 Sep 1917, Page 8
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