SETTLEMENT IN SYDNEY
WOBK TO BE EESIMED SYDNEY, September 10. The Strike Committee unanimously decided to instruct the railway and tramway employees to resume work on Tuesday morning. So far the Australian engineers and blacksmiths, amalgamated engineers, and amalgamated engine drivers and cleaners have accepted the decision. Other sectional unions" are considering their attitude.
PERTH, August 31. A new union, of national waterside worker? has applied for registration BRISBANE. August 31. The Premier has announced that thy northern railwayman have resumed work. The conditions there are now normal. SYDNEY, September 1. Air Xl'Crista! (president of the Wharf Labourers' Union) was arrested yesterday ©n a charge of sedition.
Xine men. including Tom Barker (leader of the I.W.W. movement), have been convicted of being members of an unlawful association, and have been sentenced to six months' hard labour each. Some, shots were fired at a train near Carcoar. but no damage was done. A volunteer fettlers' camp was fired on, but without any injury being done. . Some arrests have boon made. A mass meeting of representatives of
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Otago Witness, Issue 3313, 12 September 1917, Page 19
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