The transport workers' deputation to Mr. Lloyd George reported to the railwaymen's executive the result of last night's deliberations, and after 80 minutes' discussion ...
Article : 335 wordsThe Department of Labour in Washington estimates that there have been more than 2,000 strikes in the United States since the Idaho dispute, and that they ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Nationalist (anti-Imperialist) deputation has issued a long answer to Mr. Lloyd George's reply of June last. It asserts that it did not base its claim for the principle ...
Article : 147 wordsIn connection with the proposed flight from Britain to Australia, the British Air Force authorities say that they are unable to guarantee assistance in the regions ...
Article : 336 wordsThe Trieste correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that the gravest situation exists on the Dalmatian coast. Sanguinary encounters between Serbian and ...
Article : 163 wordsThe omnibus and tramwaymen are feverish, and many meetings have favoured a sympathetic strike. Their central executive at an all-night sitting recommended that ...
Article : 150 wordsThe New York "Post," commenting on Senator Fall's assertion that the International Labour Conference convened at Washington will have 24 British members ...
Article : 102 wordsThe outstanding feature of the week in connection with the Russian situation has been General Denikine's rapid advance towards Voronej. He is now within 240 miles ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Government announces that the railwaymen's executive has rejected its offer of arbitration. The railwaymen's leaders left Downing-street announcing that ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Communists in Berlin are endeavouring to develop the metal workers' strike into a political dispute. The police have dissolved thirty meetings. ...
Article : 81 wordsIt is officially announced that the meetings of the Prime Minister and Mr. Bonar Law with the trade unionists, which commenced on Wednesday, ended in the ...
Article : 168 wordsA Washington correspondent says that Mr. William Phillips (Assistant Secretary of State) has notified that American rifles are not being delivered to the Omsk ...
Article : 209 wordsGermany to-morrow will despatch a reply to the Entente's ultimatum, and will promise to evacuate the Baltic provinces. A German wireless message announces that ...
Article : 216 wordsThe King and Queen, who motored from Balmoral to London, were heartily greeted at every stopping place. They arrived at Buckingham Palace this evening. ...
Article : 34 wordsGeneral J. C. Smuts, (the Prime Minister) attended the congress of the South African party of the Cape Province in Paarl, where the question of a reunion ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Government has issued an appeal to Lords-Lieutenants of counties, mayors, and local authorities to take active steps to form citizen guards to assist the police ...
Article : 53 wordsAccording to Serbian advices D'Annunzio sent an aviator to drop a message in Spalate and other Dalmatian cities, saying that he intends to seize the entire coastline for ...
Article : 75 wordsThe American Railway Union, representing about two million workers, will not take part in the National Industrial Conference unless the representation ...
Article : 50 wordsThe high hopes of a speedy settlement which were general yesterday have vanished and the best that be said now is that the door is not barred and bolted, but is ...
Article : 561 wordsOne of the most remarkable features of the crisis is the efforts which the outside trade unions have made and are making to prevent an extension of the trouble. ...
Article : 208 wordsA despatch received from Tokio reports that a Capital and Labour Co-operative Society has been formed for the purpose of promoting arbitration in connection with ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Chamber of Deputies ratified the German Peace Treaty by 372 votes to 53. ...
Article : 24 wordsAfter the principles on which alone the South African party could accept reunion with the Nationalists had been laid down, the congress in Paarl appointed a ...
Article : 232 wordsThe Entente representatives have interviewed Herr Friedrich, who is reported to have recognise any Government except a Coalition Administration. The ...
Article : 38 wordsA Bolshevik wireless official message sent to the northern troops says:—"Now that the British and American troops have been withdrawn, half of the battle has been ...
Article : 49 wordsA Washington correspondent reports that the Senate, by a decisive vote, defeated all of the Fall amendments. Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge (Massachusetts), ...
Article : 576 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the "Matin" reports that 170 German aeroplanes, being a portion of the material which is deliverable to the Allies, flew recently to ...
Article : 42 wordsAccording to a Washington correspondent Michael Tighe (president of the Amalgamated Association of Steel and Tin Chain Workers), in giving evidence before the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe New York "Times's" correspondent at Washington says it is understood that the United States objects to the Anglo-Persian Treaty, on the ground that it ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Baltic Governments have decided not to make a separate peace with the Bolsheviks, but merely to endeavour to arrange for a cessation of hostilites. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Berlin "Tageblatt" mentions that there is a movement in Heligoland in favour of uniting to Britain. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe first week's strike pay amounted to £300,000. There has been a prompt response throughout the country to the appeal for citizen guards. The latter will ...
Article : 275 wordsMr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., general secretary of the Railwaymen's Union, has issued a statement regretting the failure to arrive at a settlement. The only reason he ...
Article : 99 wordsThere were two performances of "San Toy" by the W.A. Society of Concert Artists, at His Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday, and both were enjoyed by crowded ...
Article : 1,369 wordsGeneral J. C. Smuts (the Prime Minister) has concluded a fortnight's tour of the north-western districts of the Cape Province. In the course of his trip he spoke ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Copenhagen correspondent of the Chicago "Tribune" states that the Danish newspapers have reported that the Russian Bolsheviks will send representatives to a ...
Article : 64 wordsThe theatrical strike has terminated, the managers having decided to recognise the union, and pay the wages which were demanded. ...
Article : 29 wordsAs forecasted, the negotiations for the re-union of the South African Party and the Nationalists have resulted in complete failure. Last evening the committee of the ...
Article : 166 wordsBaron Goto (who was a member of the Terauchi Cabinet in Japan), interviewed by a representative of the New York "Times," said:—"Japan will soon ratify the Peace ...
Article : 173 wordsIt is officially announced that the Prime Minister has telegraphed to the heads of the principal civic authorities:—"The circumstances arising out of the regrettable ...
Article : 107 wordsThe railway shunters at the Spencerstreet and Flinders-street yards refused duty again to-day. Double pay for special Sunday work is offered by the ...
Article : 145 wordsA Pekin correspondent reports that the Government of China is indignant at Russia's action in refusing permission for Chinese gunboats to pass up the Amur ...
Article : 53 wordsIn view of the imminent meeting of General Denikine's and the Polish armies, General Denikine has issued to his troops an order pointing out that the Poles are ...
Article : 58 wordsAmong the Labour leaders who are working for a settlement are Messrs. J. O'Grady M.P., Arthur Henderson, M.P., and Gosling. The public demand that Parliament ...
Article : 197 wordsThe situation is more hopeful. Mr. Lloyd George will meet the railway executive on Sunday. It is officially stated that the ...
Article : 224 wordsThe Cabinet is considering proposals to re-open negotiations with Australia with a view to trade reciprocity being established. ...
Article : 30 wordsInterviewed by a representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association, General J. C. Smuts (the Prime Minister) said that his tour which had just ...
Article : 371 wordsThe Guatemala correspondent of the New York "Herald" reports that the National Assembly has ratified the German Treaty of Peace. ...
Article : 27 wordsA Washington correspondent says that President Wilson's physician has reported that the President is "a very sick man." His condition is less favourable, and he ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. Williams states that the Caxton Hall conference, after the breakdown of the negotiations, resolved to convene a conference on Tuesday which will have ...
Article : 68 wordsThe War Graves Commission has ordered the immediate erection of permanent headstones on the graves of all Australian and New Zealand soldiers who have been buried ...
Article : 42 wordsThere are still indications of unrest on the north-western frontier of India. An outpost at the head of the Khyber Pass was sniped at and a picket ambushed by ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Government announces that it is withholding the railway men's wages for last week on the ground that they broke their contracts and failed to give due ...
Article : 180 wordsFive hundred naval ratings have arrived in South Wales and are helping to restore the goods and minerals traffic between the ports and the coalfields, which hitherto has ...
Article : 146 wordsInformation has been received to the effect that the British Mission to the Imam of Yemen (Arabia), which was captured last month by sheikhs at Bajil, is safe, ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Australasian Merchants' Association has carried unanimously the following resolution:—"That we object entirely to Government trading, which is always costly ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Conciliation Committee of the Transport Workers' Conference has issued a manifesto reviewing the negotiations. It complains of the Government's harsh terms ...
Article : 77 wordsM. Clemenceau, President of the Peace Conference, has written to Colonel House, one of the American peace delegates, [?]ing that a meeting of the League of ...
Article : 422 wordsAn Anglo-American exhibition will be opened in Copenhagen in January. The British Board of Trade is considering the possibility of holding an exhibition of ...
Article : 49 wordsIt is understood that the British Government's contracts for the purchase of Australian frozen meat will not terminate until three months after the ratification of the ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Henderson, a member of the conciliation committee, predicts a settlement within twenty-four hours. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Emir Said, interviewed in Marseilles, declared that the British had interfered with his freedom, and that he had been unable to induce his soldiers to disarm. He ...
Article : 151 wordsThe London correspondent of the New York "Times" interviewed Mr. Thomas, who said:—"I am running, this strike alone, I am profoundly convinced that the ...
Article : 105 wordsAn official reception was tendered here to-day to the King and Queen of the Belgians. The city was beflagged. ...
Article : 116 wordsTraffic in London is easier, owing to the running of a quicker underground service, and the reopening of lines hitherto closed. An official communique issued at noon ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Concliation Committee, after leaving Mr. Bonar Law, reported progress to the railway leaders, who discussed developments in preparation for the meeting with Mr ...
Article : 55 wordsThe output of coal during 1918 in the United Kingdom was about 227,000,000 tons, as against 248,000,000 tons in 1917. ...
Article : 26 wordsTwo Australian soldiers, Albert Smith and Robert Bruce, the former wearing the M.M. and the D.C.M., were sentenced to pay a fine of £20 or to undergo two ...
Article : 70 wordsIt is rumoured here that the Government of New South Wales contemplates the flotation of a loan at an early date. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe committee of the Yorkshire Cricket Club recommends the postponement of the Australian cricketers' visit to Britain until 1921, but supports the visit of an English ...
Article : 38 wordsNo fewer than 3,480 trains ran to-day, in addition to 400 goods trains. Further outrages have been attempted in various parts of the country, and only daylight ...
Article : 189 wordsIn a carefully planned raid to-night on an elaborately constructed gambling "school" off Goodwood-street, Richmond, a party of 25 plain clothes constables arrested ...
Article : 98 wordsThe increase in the price of silver is attributed to important purchases on Chinese account. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn the tour of Calgary (Alberta Territory) the Crow Red Indians of the Lethbridge district invested the Prince of Wales with the full regalia of a chieftain, naming him ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. Edward A. Strauss, M.P. for West Southwark (chairman of the London Housing Board), is studying the housing conditions here for the purpose of applying the ...
Article : 42 wordsIt has been decided that Parliament shall not meet. ...
Article : 16 wordsA sensational occurrence is reported from Ashford, near Inverell. On Saturday an attempt was made to blow up the Ashford Hotel, and shortly after the explosion ...
Article : 126 wordsMr. James A. M. Elder (managing director of John Cooke and Co. Proprietary, Ltd., Melbourne) is returning to Australia in the R.M.S. Sonoma. He says that he is ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. Lloyd George at noon to-day received the Transport Workers' delegation at what is considered the most fateful interview of the week. The Miners' ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Chicago correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that the president of the Federal Grand Jury has not returned indictments in connection with the ...
Article : 71 wordsGeorge Howe, aged 46, engineer in charge of the Newtown Sub-station Hydro Electric Department, was electrocuted this morning. He was engaged preparing for some testing ...
Article : 84 wordsM. Pate, president of the Army Committee, has presented to the Chamber of Deputies proposals for reorganisation whereby the army shall consist of troops ...
Article : 55 wordsThe officials acknowledge the loyalty and invaluable co-operation of the railway clerks in re-establishing train services. ...
Article : 22 wordsMany inquiries have been received from France and two from Amsterdam for supplies of New South Wales tinned rabbits. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 6 Oct 1919, Page 7
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