AUSTRALIAN.

Colonist, Volume XLVIX, Issue 11771, 30 October 1906, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, October 28. A strike in the building trade is considered inevitable, both sides are firm, and non-Unionists are supporting the Unionists' deands. Despite police warnings Socialists persisted in holding street meetings at Prahran yesterday. The. Police dispersed them, and arrested eight, including Mr Tom Mann and two women. All were released on bail. Adelaide October 29. The "Advertiser" estimates that the State's wheat harvest will! be 21631 bushels, an average of 11. 88 bushels to the acre. Sydney, October 29. A mass meeting of Broken Hill miners resolved to take a ballot on the question of demanding a conference with the Managers' Association

J%arding increased tfages and shorter working hours. Speakers declared that the managers had tnade the recent advance in wagesjn order to avoid a conference. S SIB 3 Stanbury, the sculler, is a passenger by the Wirainera to fulKl his engagement with Webb at Wanganui.