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Politics & elections, 1929

2,723 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 137

King to Return Election Duties London

Evening News · Wednesday 24 April 1929 · page 1

THE King will definitely end his stay at Bognor in the middle of May. and will go d[?]set to Windsor, where he will stay for about one month before…

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Tatt's Elections

Referee · Wednesday 24 April 1929 · page 7

NOMINATIONS for Tattersall's Club chairmanship, treasureship, and positions on committee, closed on Monday. Messrs. A. C. Ingham and R. Walder…

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Queensland Elections. Labor's Programme

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 24 April 1929 · page 19

The Queensland elections will take place on May 11. The following contains a condensed reference to the main features to the Labor Government's policy:…

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The British Elections

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 24 April 1929 · page 11

ACCORDING to press cables, the address delivered by Prime Minister Baldwin before the Conservative leaders and organisers at Drury Lane Theatre, in which…

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The King. Bulletins to End. Back to Windsor. May Open Parliament (British Official Wircless. LONDON, April 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 9

It was stated this evening that the Kings's recovery had new reached a poing where it was unnecessary for further daily statements conceerning his Majesty…

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Zinovieff Letter. Clever Election Trick

The Catholic Press · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 5

A favourite practice in British politics is to expose a foreign plot on the eve of a general election, so as to alarm timid people, and induce them to vote against…

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British Election Issue

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 40

CABLED from London that his Eminence Cardinal Bourne, in his presidential address to the Catholic Truth Society, said that only one question at the…

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Labor Will Rule Again Election Campaign in Queensland Must Have Discipline in Party Premier's Fight Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 6

THERE has been no development in the election campaign to alter the view that Labor will continue its fourteen years' unbroken…

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Judge Coyle to Sit Royal Commission P'matta By-election

The Labor Daily · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 5

THE State Cabinet yesterday decided to appoint Judge Coyle. of the District Court, a Royal Commission to inquire into charges made by…

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Two Judges Royal Commissioners 'Bus Case and By-election

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 3

Cabinet decided yesterday to appoint Mr. Justice Davidson a Royal Commissioner to inquire into the allegations made in the recent case, in…

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Eager Bids for Doll More Votes for Queen Candidate

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 20

"NOW, are you ready?" called Mr. Jim Gerald, Fullers' popular revue producer, who was invited to conduct the auction of a well-dressed…

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United Charities Queen Competition. Miss Ruth Cohen is Jewish Candidate

The Australian Jewish Chronicle · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 18

To make votes for our representative in the Jewish Charities in connection with the United Charities’ Eliminating Queen Competition,…

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Who Stand For Parliament Communist Attitude Explained To Expose This Capitalist Institution

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 4

“If the Revolutionary Workers’ Government you Communists are out for is not a Parliamentary Government, why do you stand for…

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The Bosses’ War Propaganda What An Army Could Be Used For a Communist Speech in the British Parliament

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 3

The following speech was made in the British House of Commons, in a debate on the Army Estimates on March 2, by S. Saklatvala, Communist M.P.:— I do not propose to detain the…

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Doughty Doctors Dr. Alcorn Wins Canberra Election

The Land · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 2

Verbal scalpels wore thrown around with great vim when the three doctors, Alcorn, Watson, and Nott, opposed each other in the Canberra election for a…

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BEEKEEPERS Election of Officers

The Land · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 11

For the fourth year an succession Mr. S. E. Elphinstone (Mudgee) has. been elected president of the N.S.W. Apiarists' Association. The…

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Union Election Dispute Settled

Evening News · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 5

IT was announced by counsel to-day, before the Full Bench of the Industrial Commission that the dispute arising from the election of officers of the…

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“Class Against Class” is the Communist Challenge in the Queensland Elections Neither McCormack Nor Moore Vote Communist, Vote Left Wing a Call to the Working-Class Electors of Queensland

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 4

BY A VICTIMISED RAILWAY WORKER Fellow Workers,— All class-conscious workers must…

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Communists Leading Fight Against Bosses’ Two Parties In Q. Jack Miles Communist Candidate For Brisbane Leader of Building Workers’ 40-Hour Fight

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 1

Before coming to Australia in 1913, Jack Miles was active in the North of England Socialist movement. From the first year of his…

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Kogarah Municipal Election

The Propeller · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 4

In record to a letter appearing in another part of this issue with reference to Kogarah Council's election a letter was received by us this morning from Alderman Butler saying…

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