Yesterday was the fifth day during which employees of hotels, restaurants, clubs, and catering firms, have absented themselves from their places of ...
Article : 416 wordsThe transport workers of the capital, including employees on the trams, omnibuses, and eletric railways, have declared a general strike as a protest ...
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Article : 122 wordsWhen the Y.A.L. tourists entered Scotland they were met near Gret[?] Green, Dumfriesshire, by a pipers band and a party of Glasgow business men, who were ...
Article : 100 wordsAt the opening of the seventh quin-quennial session of the International Council of Women the Marchionese of Aberdeen declared that the strength of ...
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Article : 733 wordsThe manhood suffrage law, quadrupling the franchise, was promulgated this morning. It will be operative at the general election, in 1928.—Reuter. ...
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Article : 167 wordsIn Connection with negotiations which have taken place between representatives of the Plumbers' Union and the employ-ers with regard to a 44 hours' week. it ...
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Article : 371 wordsThe inquiry into the deaths of Thomas Lynn and Mary Hickey, who were killed in the aeroplane smash, was resumed at Orange to-day. It was stated that Lynn ...
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Article : 40 wordsThe former Premier of Queensland (Mr. E. G. Theodore), who is assisting the Labour campaign in New South Wales, arrived in Sydney to-day. He ...
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Article : 265 wordsDuring the week-end Mr. C. D. Mac-Lurean, of Sydney, succeeded in holding a number of wireless conversations with a British experimenter(Mr. W. E. ...
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Article : 154 wordsThe Customs authorities recently seized a number of copies of a German trade union production addressed to the Sydney Trades and Labour Council upon ...
Article : 113 wordsTo-day the Prinece of Wales started on his tour of the Union and Rhodesia in auspious circumstances. His visit to Capetown has been a big success, and ...
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Article : 36 wordsThis afternoon the Beigian ex-Permier (M. Marton de Wiart) opened the conference of the League of Nations on the traffic of arms and munitions. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 6 May 1925, Page 9
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