The disastrous marit me strike is still dragging along, and has now fairly engulphed in its meshes the whole of the commerce, trade, and labor of the Australian colonies. The ...
Article : 412 wordsWith the object of preserving the public peace and preventing any rioting between the conflicting parties, the Government have enrolled 1500 special constables, who are drilled in companies ...
Article : 286 wordsAt Wollongong there is but little alteration in the state of affairs. A quantity of slack coal has been sent to the Sugar Co.'s Works at the Clarence River. At Mount Keira no work is ...
Article : 131 wordsSimultaneously with the above meeting, the Australian Socialist League held a demonstration in the Domain, at which Mr. Alfred G. Yewen presided, at which the following ...
Article : 140 wordsAt Tumberumba there is expected to be some trouble amongst the non-union shearing sheds before the season is over. At Brisbane the Employers' Union received a telegram from Bowen ...
Article : 264 wordsThe conference of delegates from the employers of the different colonies resumed its sittings at the Exchange on Wednesday. The first business transacted was the passing of ...
Article : 186 wordsBy far the most disastrous feature of the present strike during the past week has been the sudden stoppage and the closing down of all the silver mines at Broken Hill, and thereby ...
Article : 610 wordsMatters remain quiet, and from a business point of view much the same as last week. There is a considerable amount of non-union wool for shipment, and it is expected shortly to be stowed ...
Article : 267 wordsA leading employer in Melbourne being asked what would be the basis of a settlement on their side replied: 1. That the employer should discharge whoever ...
Article : 188 wordsOn Saturday morning the Government received an urgent telegram from the Victorian Government asking for the assistance of the Government of New South Wales ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Labor Defence Committee are organising and holding meetings throughout the city and suburbs in order to obtain the moral as well as the pecuniary support of the people. A ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 98 wordsWith the fact that the supply of coal required for the harbor ferry steamers is now becoming scarce, a revision of the timetables of the various ferries and river steamers is taking place with ...
Article : 57 wordsCable advices are daily to band from the "old country " on strike matters. Funds are not coming to Australia so freely as was anticipated from this source, and the sum of about £8000 is ...
Article : 232 wordsThanks to the union the Gas Company has been enabled to obtain a supply of some 1500 tons coal, which bas been in harbor awaiting discharge, the union men having been allowed to ...
Article : 87 wordsThe second processional demonstration of the labor unions duly came off on the afternoon of September 6. In point of numbers the gathering was much larger than that of the previous week, ...
Article : 388 wordsWork has been going along pretty smoothly if slowly by the aid of free labor, but many of the men complain bitterly, and have knocked off work owing to the assaults made on them while going ...
Article : 203 wordsAt Lismore a man, for obstructing some steamer men of the Tomki, was sent to gaol for fourteen days without the option. The Alice, steamer, was aground twelve hours at Woodburn through ...
Article : 250 wordsA London cable dated September 9 states that it is improbable that the original estimate of the amount of assistance from England will be realised. Thousands of union men, including ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 13 Sep 1890, Page 12
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