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  2. CEMENT WORKERS' TROUBLE.

    Now that the industrial disputes committee of the Trades-hall Council has been brought into the trouble of the cementworkers connected with the United ...

    Article : 1,034 words
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  4. PRICE OF FRUIT.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In opening the Australasian Fruitgrowers' ninth annual conference to-day the Governor (Lord Chelmsford) made some stringent remarks on the ...

    Article : 924 words
  5. AUSTRALIAN EXTRAVAGANCE.

    The fact that Australia is earning a reputation for extravagance in public expenditure is one of the most striking inpressions gained by Mr. G. Swinburne, M.L.A., ...

    Article : 1,229 words
  6. GENERAL NEWS.

    Andrew Monigomery and his brothers, of Kir[?]bright, Scotland, were breeders of horses. John Edward Walter, now deceased, went to Scotland, and made an ...

    Article : 1,160 words
  7. INDUSTRIAL NEWS.

    After the third count of the votes of the members of the Tramway Employees' Association for the position of secretary, Mr. T. Jewell came out on top with a majority ...

    Article : 295 words
  8. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    "Sir.—The board's watchword has been "equal pay for equal work," with the welfare of the male worker conspicuously before them, although it is he who has been ...

    Article : 490 words
  9. PLASTERERS' REVOLT.

    Mr. R. Loughnan, secretar[?] of the Building Trades Council, in criticising the action of the Plasterers' Union in withdrawing imm the council yesterday, stated:- ...

    Article : 375 words
  10. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Your leading article on the decision of the wages board deals with very important issues. Typing and shorthand writing are skilled occupations, and many ...

    Article : 314 words
  11. OVERSEA STEAMERS' CREWS.

    Responding to the prompting conveyed in a question by Mr. Kelly (N.S.W.) in the House of Representatives yesterday, the Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) said that he ...

    Article : 106 words
  12. FIBROU'S PLASTERERS.

    The employees representatives on the [?] Plasterers' Board, Messrs. W. Fox, H. Riley, and C. Walters, having been ob[?] to, the Minister for Labour (Mr. ...

    Article : 55 words
  13. GAS STOKERS.

    Sir.—There has been no union in the South Melbourne works since 1890, when some of us got a "gruelling" that we do not forget. 1, for one, took on oath that ...

    Article : 202 words
  14. BREAD BOARD.

    The [?] within which the determination of the Bread Board is-to be operative has been re-defined. so as to include the borough of Rutherglen. ...

    Article : 33 words
  15. STATE MINE DELAYS.

    WONTHAGGI, Tuesday.—In two places in the State mine where the water is troublesome the miners had to cease work to-day, as the pumps installed were not ...

    Article : 78 words
  16. BUILDING TRADE UNIONS' ALLIANCE.

    SYDNEY, Monday.—It is stated that an alliance has been formed among the building trade Unions, specailly in regard to builders' labourers, to unite labourers. plasterers, ...

    Article : 192 words
  17. CROP PROSPECTS.

    ROMSEY.—The extremely hot weather being experienced here is playing havoc with the growing crops, and, unless a good fall of rain is expreienced shortly, the expectations of a record season will ...

    Article : 43 words
  18. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAlLWAY

    Mr. Kelly (N.S.W.) asked the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. O' Malley), in the House of Representatives yesterday whether it were not a fact that the Western ...

    Article : 390 words
  19. RURAL PRODUCERS.

    ROMSEY, Tuesday.—Mr. Havendon, organiser of the Rural Producers' Association, addressed a well-attended meeting of farmers on Monday. He urged farmers to ...

    Article : 37 words
  20. IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

    Reference to the policy of the Commonwealth in relation to imperial defence was made by the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) yesterday, in answer to several questions by ...

    Article : 267 words
  21. CLERKS' WAGES BOARD.

    Almost the whole of last night's meeting of the Clerks' Wages oBard was taken up by a motion of Messrs, Wood and Love, two of the employers' representatives, on ...

    Article : 185 words
  22. TO THE EDITO OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir. "Inquirer" asked through the columns of your paper to-day how, in the event of ten of twelve hundred female clerks being dismissed, would their positions ...

    Article : 296 words
  23. CITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS.

    Mr. Thomas P. Nolan will address his [?] meeting at [?] Theatre, corner Rolen and King streets, to-night, at 8 o'clock. ...

    Article : 37 words
  24. THE RIVERINA.

    WAGGA (N.S.W.), Thursday. —The late Mr. Ewen Cameron, grazier, bequeaths £100 to the Wagga District Hospital. A magisterial inquiry was held to-day concerning ...

    Article : 209 words
  25. CAULFIELD TRAFFIC.

    Sir,—I noted the remarks in "The Argus" as to the splendid management of the Railway department on Saturday. I and many others get into a first-class special ...

    Article : 107 words
  26. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir, I am a typist at present, and earning 25 per week. I am very well satisfied, and feel that the present rates as proposed by the Clerks' Wages Board are simply ...

    Article : 225 words
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