Helping War Effort
Swansea Soldier Farewelled Driver Stan Home, of the A.I.F., was farewelled by the Swansea Farewell Committee…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1941
3,571 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 67 of 179
British War Office Wants Dogs
LONDON, May 5. A.A.P.—The War Office wants dogs. Owners will be invited to lend them to the Army for the duration of the war if they pass tests…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Effort Not Affected Controversy on Greek Campaign
WASHINGTON, May 5. A.A.P.—Asked if reports from Australia were wrong in giving the impression that a section of the Australian Parliament favoured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State Labour War Policy Reply to Mr. Maloney
"The last time Mr. Maloney was in Newcastle he said that the Hughes-Evans executive had been suspended because the Federal executive disapproved of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Proud of War Effort Supply Minister to Critics
SYDNEY, Monday. — "Without fear of contradiction, I say that Australia's war effort is one of which the people may well be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Labor War in U.S. Three-corner Struggles
Another chapter is being added to the stormy story of the bitter internecine war in the American labor movement with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Full Weight Not in War Mr. Spender to Labour
SYDNEY, Monday.—While Labour withheld its support, it could not be seriously pretended that Australia's full weight as a nation was going into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BAN U.S. War Goods for Japan Chinese Plea Washington
China's Foreign Minister (Mr. Quo Tai-chi) broadcast an appeal to the United States to cease supplying Japan with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Bonus to Miners Greater Output Is Needed, Says Judge "Reduce Stoppages and Absenteeism"
In his written decision awarding coal miners in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Queensland a war bonus from four to five per cent, on their wages, Mr. Justice Drake Brockman indicated that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Father and Son Detained Detectives Wounded
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—In pursuing inquiries to-day into the Daylate-Bralad ring-in inquiry of last January, Detective-sergeant Martin Purcell and Detective-…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For War Purposes
A miking picture of ike North Tower of the Crystal Palace toppling towards the camera. The iron tower had been a London landmark for years. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Helping War Effort Wickham Committee
The Wickham Welfare and Welcome Home Committee will farewell 12 servicemen at a function which will be held in the St. James's Parish…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Loan Appeal Slowness Sydney
"It is no credit to the Australian people that their public leaders have to come into the city streets, in effect, to take round…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Behind War Effort Workers Defend Rights
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—"I think every worker of Australia, whether he be in the armed force overseas or in Australia, or in the industry of this country,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Win-the-war Rally Stimulate Newcastle Recruiting
An important meeting of the Newcastle Citizens' Recruiting Committee will be held to-morrow night. Representatives of the War Savings Committee will also…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Closer to Australia Mr. Fadden's Warning
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The one bright ray on the dark horizon was the determination of President Roosevelt to assist Britain with indispensable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japan Feeling War Strain Address to Rotary Club
"The whole Japanese nation has been trained for war, and now it has got it. It has ruined Manchuria, the part of China it occupies, and brought acute…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Y.W.C.A. Discusses Plans for War Work
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the Y.W.C.A. discussed plans yesterday morning for further assisting the Y.W.C.A. in Great Britain and,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Use of War Coal Reserves "Not to Defeat Wage Increases"
Legal or industrial action would be taken to rectify a position in Queens land, where the City Electric Light Company of Queensland was using reserves…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Only for the Deserving" Judge on War Bonus for Miners
The war bonus for miners was only for the deserving, Judge Drake-Brockman indicated in his judgment on the 5 per cent, increase for offhand miners and…
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