Some 200 girls employed at the Kensington factory of the British Australasian Tobacco Company went on strike yesterday morning because their demand for increased wages ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 816 wordsThe King received Mr. Harry Hawker and Lieut. Grieve at Buckingham Palace this morning. Immense crowds accorded them an [?]vation. ...
Article : 244 wordsAs a result of the compulsory conference called by Mr. Justice Higgins in the seamen's dispute, the representatives of the union have undertaken ...
Article : 339 wordsAt a special meeting of the electric lighting committee of the City Council yesterday, Alderman Bridges presiding, in the absence through illness of the vice-chairman, ...
Article : 938 wordsImmediately Germany refuses to sign the Peace Treaty the Allied armies, after 72 hours' notice, will advance into Germany. Arrangements for ...
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Article : 95 wordsAt last night's meeting of the New South Wales Labour Council, the following motion was carried:—"That this council extend its support to the Tobacco Workers' Union. And ...
Article : 58 wordsDifficulty was experienced yesterday in obtaining labour to discharge the cargo of the Hunter, which belongs to the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company, Ltd. It ...
Article : 190 wordsBert Hinkler, who will leave for Australia in a Sopwith aeroplane, will be unaccompanied on his flight. He expects to start in a few days, otherwise the monsoons will ...
Article : 98 wordsBefore a large attendance of members of the Malvern branch of the Australian Women's National League at their annual meeting at the Malvern Town Hall to-day, the Acting ...
Article : 323 wordsThe Federal Government has approved of extra pay being granted to members of the Royal Australian Navy as an allowance for service during extended war absence to make ...
Article : 366 wordsSir,—From your summary of the Navigation Act under this heading in to-day's issue it would appear that the seamen are badly accommodated, and that the proclamation of the ...
Article : 303 wordsThe rule of the union under which the agreed-upon plebiscite will be taken provides for a ballot, but in the event of members of vessels not being able to obtain ballot papers ...
Article : 304 wordsA message from Washington states that the Bolsheviks deny that the fall of Petrograd is imminent. It was reported on May 17 that British ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 330 wordsKing Albert, it is expected, will visit Washington for the opening session of the League of Nations. ...
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Article : 178 wordsMrs. J. J. Smith, wife of Mr. J. J. Smith, co-managing director with Mr. Mark Foy, of Mark Foy's, Ltd., died at her home, Colebrook, Double Bay, yesterday evening. Mrs. ...
Article : 171 wordsApart from six small boxes of charred bones, the police have discovered no substantial clue regarding the disappearance of Landru's 12 missing fiancees. It appears that ...
Article : 124 wordsThroughout yesterday the Sydney strikers assembled in small numbers in the vicinity of the union offices and discussed the possibility of the strike ending at an early date. ...
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Article : 271 wordsThe Four Power loan to China will probably amount to £20,000,000, and will be paid in four instalments of £5,000,000. ...
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Article : 323 wordsAbout 9.30 yesterday morning Sydney Ferguson, 19, who lives in Fig-street, Ultimo, was driving a cart laden with nearly a ton of empty bottles along Wentworth-avenue, city, ...
Article : 139 wordsA mass meeting of members of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Wharf-labourers' Union was held on Wednesday night at the union rooms, when the seamen's dispute was ...
Article : 191 wordsThe King of the Belgians has conferred the honour of Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown on Sir Thomas Mackenz[?]e (High Commissioner for New Zealand), and a ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. Davies, M.L.A., introduced a deputation to the Minister for Health yesterday representative of the committee of the Wollongong District Hospital. The Minister was asked ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. Asquith, speaking at Newcastle, emphasised the inestimable advantage of a compact and determined opposition in Parliament. It was the essence of parliamentary life. The ...
Article : 77 wordsDuring the absence of the dwellers on Wednesday night, the residence of Mrs. Isabel Gray, in Cameron-street, Paddington, was visited by burglars, who used a jemmy or ...
Article : 107 wordsDuring the week the South Coast district, from Helensburgh to Nowra, has experienced extraordinarily heavy rainfalls. In the Wollongong district especially there has been a ...
Article : 129 wordsThe hearing of evidence was continued yesterday by the Royal Commission (Mr. J. L. Campbell, K.C.) appointed to inquire into the coal industry in N.S.W. ...
Article : 307 wordsMajor-General E. G. Sinclair Maclagan, D.S.O., C.B., has been appointed to the command of the Highland Division of the new Territorial Force, which is being recruited ...
Article : 38 words"It came to my knowledge that members of the old Wharf-labourers' Union planned an attack on the men engaged on the oversea boats at the Woolloomooloo wharfs," said Mr. ...
Article : 70 wordsWhile walking alongside his cart, laden with sand, in Abercromb[?]-street city, on Wednesday afternoon, William W. Hunt, 33, a carter, living in Bannister-lane, city, slipped and ...
Article : 256 wordsAt last night's meeting of the New South Wales Labour Council a motion was carried protesting against the detention of Paul Freeman on board the Sonoma. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe hon. secretary of the Citizens' Rights and Liquor Reform Association writes:—Why did Mr. G. Cranston, the acting president of the Alliance, in your issue of the 28th last; ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Air Ministry contemplates that the super-airship R34 will shortly attempt a nonstop Atlantic flight, from Ireland to Newfoundland and the Azores, carrying sufficient ...
Article : 55 wordsOne hundred and-thirty-four points of rain fell last night, making over 10 inches this month. The Nepean River is flooded, and the bridge submerged. The water is rising ...
Article : 55 wordsThe death occurred in Brisbane on Tuesday last of Mr. John Chisholm Watson, one of the pioneers of the Labour party in New South Wales. Deceased, who was 76 years of age, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe s[?]ow Zingara, which left Clarencetown on May 15 last, with a cargo of timber for Gisborne, New Zealand, put into Sydney yesterday, after having met heavy weather off the ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Manchest[?]r Chamber of Commerce is protesting to the Board of Trade in regard to the heavy cable delays, pointing out that it is taking between 20 and 80 days to get ...
Article : 61 wordsOutside a restaurant in North Melbourne last night a wharf worker was shot, and wounded severely in the arm. His assailant, who attempted to escape on a tram, was ...
Article : 77 wordsAll low-lying farms are under water. The outlying part of the district is cut off from the town. Tatham Bridge, which connects Tatham and Coraki, is under water, and is ...
Article : 93 wordsDuring 1918 the sum of £105 was collected by the committee of the Cremorne branch of the Red Cross and War Chest to purchase additional comforts for Graythwa[?]te Red Cross ...
Article : 71 wordsIn the second innings Australia made 235 (Collins 64, Kelleway' 52). Middlesex scored 136 for four wickets (Hendred 63 unfinished), and the match was drawn. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 30 May 1919, Page 7
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