SYDNEY, Sunday.—Although stop-work meetings were convened by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, the Boilermakers' Union, and Stovemakers' Union ...
Article : 402 wordsA new type of outrage has been commenced in Ireland. In the presence of a large crowd an engine-driver was chained to a tramway statndard, with the placard ...
Article : 228 wordsIt appears from the July number of "Isvestia," the oficial organ of the Moscow Soviet, which has just reached India, that the Bolsheviks have opened a ...
Article : 199 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade (Sir Robert Horne), in an interview, declared that a strike of coal-miners would be inevitable if the miners refused to abate ...
Article : 726 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—A serious split has [?]rred in the ranks of the Labour party [?] Bendigo, as the outcome of sectarian [?]. In the Bendigo East branch of the ...
Article : 286 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Mr. Joseph Partridge, of Hong Kong, brother of ex-Sister Ligouri, who came to Sydney last week to see his sister, to-night made the following ...
Article : 892 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle," commenting upon Mr. Hughes's announcement of the Ministry's defence policy for Australia, says:- "Mr. Hughes's speech is an indication of the ...
Article : 152 wordsThe provisional agenda for the Geneva conference of the League of Nations includes the establishment of a permanent court of justice, a permanent health ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Australian High Commissioner (Mr. Fisher), the New Zealand High Commissioner (Sir James Allen), and numerous Austndian and New Zealand military officers ...
Article : 165 wordsIt is reported from Paris that the well-known American cinema actress, Miss Olive Thomas, who in private life was the wife of Mr. Jack Pickford, a moving picture ...
Article : 161 wordsThe majority of the "hunger-strikers" in Cork gaol are unconscious. It is reported that, by the request of the prisoners, the prison doctors have ceased attending them, ...
Article : 75 wordsAfter the establishment of the Soviet Government in Russia, Peter Simonoff then a miner working at Broken Hill, was appointed its representative in ...
Article : 311 wordsDARWIN (N.T.), Saturday.—With reference to a telegram sent by the Acting Administrator (Mr. Staniforth Smith) to the Minister for Home and Territores (Mr. ...
Article : 967 wordsSpeaking at Butte (Montana), Governor Cox, the Democratic candidate for the American Presidency, said that if elected he would bring self-determination for ...
Article : 67 wordsThe controller of imports and exports at Durban announces that applications for the export of second-glade Australian flour will be considered. Inquiries show that ...
Article : 52 wordsThough the cricket season officially ended last week, the actual finish will be the match between the champion county, Yorkshire, v the Rest of ...
Article : 362 wordsThe members of the Port Phillip Stevedores' Labourers Association yesterday decided to work overtime. There was almost a full muster of members at the meeting of ...
Article : 379 wordsImmigration to the United States is increasing rapidly with indications that the pre-war record will be-equalled this year. The Commissioner for Immigration (Mr. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe "London" Gazette" announces the voluntary liquidation of the Sir Thomas Beecham Opera Co. It was announced a week ago that a receiving ...
Article : 110 wordsAccording to the Tokio "Nichi Nichi Shimbun," Japan's policy will be to strive to the utmost to prevent the passage of the proposed anti-Japanese legislation in ...
Article : 79 wordsThe War Office on Saturday announced that a strong column of Indian cavalry, artillery, and infantry, under BrigadierGeneral Conyngham, left Ba'qubah, north ...
Article : 408 wordsRome messages state that 400,000 workers are involved in the present factory-seiziug movement. A large exodus of families from Milan has commenced owing to the ...
Article : 286 wordsWool valued at £20,000,000 is declared to be stored in Texas warehouses because the growers refuse to accept present prices. They expect higher prices after the ...
Article : 37 wordsPresident Wilson has refused to reopen the wages dispute of the anthracite miners in the United States, despite that the miners have struck against the award. ...
Article : 29 wordsIt is announced that the Australian alumni of the Pennsylvania University has raised £8,000 for the establishment of scholarships at the Pennsylvania Dental ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. R. E. Barton said to-night that Miss Partridge was not being detained against her will. Her brother had adopted a threatening attitude, with the result that ...
Article : 85 wordsIt is understood that Lord Incheape, the chairman of the P. and O. and other shipping companies, is receiving satisfactory inquiries in regard to the 42 former German ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Labour newspaper "Democrat," which stands for constitutional trades unionism, and is edited by Mr. W. A. Appleton, secretary of the General ...
Article : 255 wordsPERTH. Saturday.—The Arbitration Court award for miners in the Meekatharra, Cue, and Youamni districts is for a period of three years, and retrospective ...
Article : 77 wordsExtraordinary and dramatic scenes occurred at Luorenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa in connection with the railway strike. Owing to the refusal ...
Article : 93 words"I have road with appreciation the article on Cadet Training which appears in 'The Argus' of this morning," said the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) on ...
Article : 379 wordsPERTH. Saturday — The insurance agents' strike has been settled by the acceptance of the companies' offer, on the assurance that there would be no ...
Article : 49 wordsUnder the supervision of the Department of Labour a ballot is being conducted among storemen and packers in the hardware trade, to decide whether the ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is expected that Japan's new highpower wireless station will be opened in October. The sending apparatus has been in commission since March. ...
Article : 438 wordsThe Soviet delegate to London, M. Kameneff, has left for Russia bearing Mr. Lloyd George's demands, formulated at an interview before Kameneff's departure, ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Canadian Finance Minister (Sir Henry Drayton) has issued a statement announcing that owing to the adverse trade balance, the Canadian banks had been ...
Article : 108 wordsOn Saturday, in the first quarter of the semi-final football match between Brunswick and Port Melbourne, on the East Melbourne Cricket-ground, a bulldog inter ...
Article : 322 wordsFurther general rains are expected early this week. According to an official statement issued by the Weather Bureau last night, the low ...
Article : 210 wordsThe London Electrical Trades Union has given a week's notice of a strike in sympathy with the workers who have been locked out by the Engineering Employers' ...
Article : 148 wordsWarsaw reports state that Poland has rejected Lithuania's proposal that she should take part in the peace negotiations between Russia and Poland at Riga. Poland ...
Article : 109 wordsHerr Dittman, a German independent Socialist delegate to the Moscow "Internationale," states that Soviet statistics show that there are 230,000 male and ...
Article : 41 wordsNews has rapidly spread throughout Central Asia that the Bolsheviks have occupied Bokhara, capital of the feudatory Central Asian State of the name, between ...
Article : 106 wordsECHUCA, Saturday.—Conditions are fairly satisfactory in Echuca as yet. Property owners in High street are much gratified by the success of the levee bank, which ...
Article : 217 wordsThat the Federal Ministry intends to introduce almost immediately a scheme of [?]nnuation, which will include the per[?] military forces, was announced by ...
Article : 148 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z), Saturday.— Damage to the extent of £20,000 was caused by a fire at the wool-scouring works of Hill and Company, Woolston, Cantorbury. The ...
Article : 39 wordsIncreased salaries for members of the State Parliament may be a leading plank in the platform of both Ministerial and Caucus candidates at the coming elections. Last ...
Article : 225 wordsIt has been announced from Manila that more than 3,000 Chinese, who entered the Philippines from Borneo in violation of the immigration laws, will be deported in ...
Article : 96 wordsSir,—The answer given by the Assistant Minister for Defence to a question relating to A.I.F. officers returned to Australia without trial evades the issue, and also is ...
Article : 273 wordsDiscusing the carriage of milk by the Railway department to the metropolis, Mr. C. Miscamble, Railways Commissioner in charge of transportation, said on Saturday ...
Article : 186 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.— A reply has been received from Mr. H. Bennett, manager of the Australian Olympic team, with reference to the invitation to three swimmers to ...
Article : 89 wordsContinuous strikes at Madras have led to serious trouble. About 300 Indians collected to obstruct others resuming work, and a European assistant of the Burma Oil ...
Article : 90 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Saturday.—The coal position at Auckland grows more acute daily. The coal-miners are idle and the mines are closed, the owners apparently ...
Article : 133 wordsBRISBANE, Saturday.—Reports from varius parts of Darling Downs state that heavy rain fell during the past 24 hours. It will be of incalculable benefit. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 13 Sep 1920, Page 7
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