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108 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 6
The oil workers of Fiji won a wage rise of 106 a week as a result of their strike action in December. Earlier in the year, after strong agitation and threats of strike action, sugar workers won a wage increase of 3d an hour, following…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New South Wales won the ladies' athletic cup when leading athlete, Madeleine Bergman, proved her fitness to win four gold medals. The N.S.W. team retained…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Achtung! Minen!" "Beware of Mines!" Far too few of these warning signs, erected by Allied and Axis troops during the war, remain to warn the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FOR several weeks now the Western press has been treating its readers to sensational rumors…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Star N.S.W. athlete, DAVID ABRAMOVITCH, receives his gold medal from Michael Golland (assistant carnival manager) after he had won the 440 yards event at the recent 27th interstate Jewish sports carnival. Abramovitch…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PERTH: The State Full Court in Perth last Wednesday set aside an Arbitration Court order forbidding Amalgamated Collieries from dismissing its employees…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Victorian tennis player, PAMELA SACKS (pictured), won five gold medals at the recent Sydney interstate…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →SYDNEY: A proposal for a 24-hour stoppage in power houses as a protest against dismissals because of mechanisation and automation was rejected by a majority vote of the NSW Labor Council last Thursday night. THE Broad Committee of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SYDNEY: Shipwrights have accepted a "permanent" award following acceptance by employers of a wage formula proposed by the union. THE formula means an extra…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SYDNEY: Miners have won the 28 per cent marginal increase ordered by the Commonwealth Arbiti[?]tion Court and comparable incre[?] THE Sydney May Day Committee, for the first time, has been able to book the Sydney Town Hall for the May Day Festival Ball, to be…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →SYDNEY: The Central Council of the Miners' Federation will call on the United Nations and the International Labor Organisation for an immediate full scale inquiry and report on the South African mining disaster, where 440 South African…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →BURNIE: An attempt by Holyman's Stevedoring Coy. to break down working conditions here last week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: The Central Council of the Miners' Federation at its meeting last week called on the Australian Council of Trade…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COLLIE (W.A.): Mineworkers here have won the first round of their struggle against a proposed increase of working hours…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SYDNEY: Hie annual meeting of the Central Council of the Miners' Federation, which took place in Sydney last week, re-elected Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY: Unless the Memzies Government revokes a licence to import diesel fraction motors from America, over 100 highly skilled Australian tradesmen and their assistants may get the sack…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SYDNEY; Refuting a claim by the N.S.W. Minister for Mines, Mr. Simpson, that mechanisation was increasing the safety of mines, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: Solidarity of the support by women on the job was a major factor in the success of a strike by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →L’EXP Nouvelle-Calédonie premiers mois de l'année 1959 a donné dès résultats satisfaisants…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australia's first Jews were mostly convicts, men and women whose environment in 18th century England submerged their characters but they were colorful, vigorous and where circumstances allowed, they could…
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