American Motor Strike. Conference Arranged. No Intervention by President. Washington, Jan. 6
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 12
President Roosevelt and the Secretary for Labour (Miss Frances Perkins) conferred twice yesterday regarding the strike of employees of General Motors Corporation, but…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Spending Petrol Tax Ministers Reply To Motorists
The Sun · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 1
Spend all the petrol tax on road construction and more taxes would have to be imposed to enable Governments to carry out other essential…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nearly £600 a Week Fines Paid by Motorists
The Sun · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 1
STATISTICS issued by the Traffic Department to-day indicate the force of the drive by Transport authorities against…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Traffic Chaos at King's Cross Motorists' Demand for Action
The Sun · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 18
CHRONIC traffic congestion at King s Cross rapidly grows worse, while the City Council and other bodies continue, as they have done for years to investigate and argue the merits of various schemes to relieve it…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Midnight Tram
The Propeller · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 8
It was twelve-forty-five a.m. and the yellow lights of Rose Bay swarmed ahead of us like a hive of bees. The car was full of dozing girls in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hints to Motorists. Body Squeaks
The Propeller · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 7
Annoying rattles, difficult to locate, will develop around the floorboards, door hinges, and body holding-down bolts. The best way to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Knocked Down by Motor Cycle
The Propeller · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 4
Joseph Jones, aged five years, of Alexandria, was knocked down by a motor cycle on Sunday outside the Ramsgate Baths. He suffered a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motorists Marooned Auckland (N.z), Wed
The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 1
Landslides caused by heavy ram have marooned many motorists at Cape Runaway. As the motorists are short of food efforts are being made…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Injured in Fall From Tram
The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 1
Falling from a moving tram in Homer Street, Earlwood, yesterday, George Campbell, about 10, of Erskineville, struck his head on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →E. Suburbs Motor Cyclists
The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 3
Eastern Suburbs Motor Cycle Club's first meeting for 1937 is to be held on the Landsowne grass course next Sunday, commencing at 9.30…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tram Driver Crushed
The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 10
Crushed between a tram and a wall at the Waverley tram depot yesterday morning. Bert Oliver, 55, a tram driver, of Durant Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tramway Men Plan Big March To Protest Against Conditions In Service Domain Rally
The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 5
TO protest forcibly against the bad conditions in the service, tramway employees intend to march through the city streets and hold a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Protest March Planned By Tram Men
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 2
TRAMWAY employees are planning a city march and demonstration in the Domain as a protest against service…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Skeleton May Be of Tramp
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Detectives think that the fully-clothed skeleton of a man found in a shaft at Wedderburn (Vic.) is that of a tramp…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S.A. Motor Strike Slumps Industry DETROIT
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 3
IDLE motor-car workers increased to 55,000 when four additional General Motors Corporation plants were affected by the strike. Federal peace efforts broke…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Motorists Won't Stand Injustice"
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 7
"The motor-using community will not continue to suffer obvious injustice at the hands of the Federal Government," said the president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Road Reports. Road to Patonga
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 7
The road from Pearl Beach to Patonga, which was opened recently, is not a firstclass thoroughfare, but it is in good order for tourist traffic, according to the N.R.M.A…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boy's Fall From Train
The Sun · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 12
Charles Smith, aged 5, of Ada- street, Canley Vale, wandered from his parents as a train to-day pulled into Carramar station, near…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Spend It on the Roads!
The Land · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 3
LIKE other "special purpose" taxes, the Petrol Tax has long since lost its original character. It was imposed at the outset for the purpose of raising money to be spent on roads, but of the £7,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Roads Tax Cut Expected City Council May Benefit
The Sun · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 6
Further Main Roads tax concessions, amounting to between £20,000 and £40,000, are hoped for by Civic Reform aldermen of the City Council…
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