The first day of the genera strike passed off with very few incidents. There was some rioting at the East India Docks and in one or two provincial centres, but that at the docks is reported by the police not to have been due to bona fide strikers, who are behaving in a very orderly fashion, but to gangs of hooligans. ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Australian's Match against Leicester was concluded today in the manner in which three day games usually end when play is interrupted by rain—a draw. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 604 wordsEleventh hour attempts are being made to prevent a stoppage at all the collieries throughput New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania which has been ...
Article : 256 wordsWe do nothing at all in what is sometimes ambitiously called research, excepting it relates to our single objective. We believe that anything else would be ...
Article : 5,796 wordsTwenty persons were injured in a police baton charge at the East India Dock. Strikers attacked Government food lorries, women taking part. A ...
Article : 43 wordsThe South African trade unions will probably assist the funds of the strikers. A large meeting of furniture workers has already decided to make a levy. ...
Article : 31 wordsA joint Conference of stewards of the English Jockey Club and the committee of the National Hunt Crab has decided that owing to the difficulty of carrying ...
Article : 54 wordsThe General Confederation of Labour has convened a conference of miners, railwaymen, dockers, and seamen to discuss the question of support for the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe police officers are convinced that the disturbances were not due to bona fide trade unionists who are very orderly, but to "roughs" operating in small gangs ...
Article : 135 wordsThere is an extraordinary influx of passengers from England. Yesterday's trains from Calais to Paris have been doubled. The Northern Station in Paris to-day ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Union of Transport Workers, Dock Labourers, and Seamen's Organisations have issued a manifesto ordering their members to cease work on ships ...
Article : 40 wordsThe International Federation of Trade Unions has not yet received application from the British Trade Union-Council, but it has made preparations for ...
Article : 33 wordsGreat Britain wants to do its part toward preventing smuggling liquor into the United States. So the British Government has advised the Secretary of ...
Article : 176 wordsThe following British Government official wireless news (by courtesy of Amalgamated Wireless) G.B.R., has been received under date of May 5:— ...
Article : 144 wordsThe newspaper "The Sheffield Telegraph," will appear tomorrow, produced by its regular staff. Both the Cardiff evening papers appeared. ...
Article : 77 wordsIt is reported that the Japan Labour Federation is holding special conference tomorrow for the purpose of considering a request from the British ...
Article : 68 wordsEngland awakened this morning to find itself in the grip of a paralysing strike, but it is too early to feed the effects of the greatest industrial ...
Article : 1,300 wordsThe, "Manchester Guardian," in the course of a leading article, says:—"It would appear that there were only two ways of escape—the Withdrawal either ...
Article : 178 wordsThe depressing influence of the British strike on the local securities market was intensified on Tuesday when a wave of selling orders swept over the stock ...
Article : 107 wordsAn official wireless message from the British Government states that correspondence between the British and American Governments has been issued ...
Article : 328 wordsThe House of Lords' debate on the crises followed the lines of yesterday's House of Commons. Lord Haldane requested the Government not to lose an ...
Article : 343 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) stated today that he had received a cable from the High Commissioner in London that there were in port and about to arrive in ...
Article : 125 wordsThe first day of the general strike passed off quietly and only one incident was reported—at the East India docks—where Government lorries were attacked. ...
Article : 207 wordsNo morning papers were published today. Instead his Majesty's Stationery Office issued the first number of "The British Gazette," a four page sheet ...
Article : 256 wordsPrivate advices received by Hobart shippers of fruit indicate that the collapse of the London fruit market is inevitable, with serious losses to all concerned. ...
Article : 148 wordsThe House of Commons met in the quietest mood and no business papers were circulated. The Speaker appealed to members not to submit written ...
Article : 211 wordsThere was a normal attendance of members when the House of Commons met. At the opening the Budget resolutions were discussed. Mr. Snowden ...
Article : 227 wordsSpeaking in the Fremantle Town Hall last night in support of Mr. E. H. Gray, M.L.C., who is a candidate in the forthcoming elections, the Premier (Mr. P. ...
Article : 418 wordsThe journey to London is much easier and traffic is much less congested owing to better organisation and more trains. The Civil Commissioner reports that the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe strike has already affected German ports. Vessels scheduled to sail to England have cancelled their departure in view of the impossibility of coaling in ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Cambridge and Middlesex match was abandoned today, and Oxford v. Middlesex, fixed for tomorrow, has been cancelled. ...
Article : 35 wordsFor the third time, the first day's play of the Australian XI fixtures has been delayed by rain. There was a murky drizzle all the morning and play ...
Article : 182 wordsThe general good humour of the crowds, many of whom seemed to appreciate the novelty of the situation, was only disturbed by a few minor incidents, like ...
Article : 99 wordsSir Laming Worthington-Evans (Secretary of State for War) in the House of Commons today dispelled the first absurd rumours by emphatically denying ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Prince of Wales this morning left Le Bourget aerodrome aboard a British aeroplane, escorted by another British aeroplane. It is expected that the Prince ...
Article : 83 wordsLondon's discomfort has been completed by the settling down of a dense fog accompanied by an incessant drizzle. Eight of the London theatres have closed ...
Article : 33 wordsThe American Federation of Labour holds, that the British miners are justified in their demands for a "decent" living wage, and that their grievances should ...
Article : 218 wordsIt is believed that the strike in Britain is not likely to permanently affect the South African coal trade, though it is probable that in the event of a ...
Article : 97 wordsThe county matches finished today, with the following results:— London, May 3. The County games resulted as ...
Article : 189 wordsThe staff committee of the National Whitley Council has carried a resolution advising all civil servants not to volunteer to perform duties outside normal ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Prince of Wales arrived by aeroplane at Croydon this morning from Paris, and quietly motored to London.—Reuter. ...
Article : 27 wordsAn official broadcast report states that the London milk transport service is working according to plan, and long distance milk and fish trains have arrived ...
Article : 219 wordsThe British Post Office has suspended foreign and Colonial mails. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe South African Trade Union Congress (Johannesburg) has received an appeal for support from the Amsterdam International. In reply thereto congress ...
Article : 132 wordsThe airship Norge has left Leningrad for Spitsbergen. ...
Article : 16 wordsAll the produce trades are absolutely at a standstill owing to the lack of transport facilities. Eight apple steamers arrived before 8 ...
Article : 82 wordsA message from Fairbanks (Alaska) states that Captain George Wilkins announced on Tuesday night that the would leave Fairbanks on Wednesday with his ...
Article : 92 wordsActing in co-operation with the International Federation of Trades Union plans are being made that, should the British strike last for such a period as ...
Article : 130 wordsA sharp, inexplicable relapse occurred in francs to-day. Belgians opened at 153 and are now 160. while the French fell from 151 to 153½. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. S. Saktatvala, the Communist member of the House of Commons for North Battersea, was quietly arrested at his home at Highgate, under the Emergency ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 6 May 1926, Page 11
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