AUSTRALIAN NEWS
STRIKE OP ENGINEERS AT STEEL WORKS i SHELL-MAKING HELD UP. < - 1 By Teleeiaph—Press Association—Oonyrlgll ] Sydney, December 11. I There is a strike of engineers at the I Broken Hill Proprietary Steel Works at I Newcastle. It is holding up shell-mak- ] ing. Tlio blacksmiths are supporting tho < strikers. The!secretary of the 'Black- 1 smiths' Union, having failed to induce 1 tho men to obey the executive order to 1 i-esume work, has declared that unless i there is some 'influence similar to that i at work;in American .factories, lie can- i not understand these strikes. "The men i are fighting a better battle for tlio Ger- • mans tha.ii for unionism." i - ANTI-CREEK RIOTING. OUTBREAK AT NEWCASTLE. Sydney, .December 11. There has been an outbreak of antiGreek rioting at Newcastle, where , soldiers and a mob paraded the town and smashed the' windows of Greek shops. Tho police wero .powerless. Finally the men dispersed. FARMS FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS. ONE THOUSAND AVAILABLE. Sydney, December 11. Mr. W. G. Ashford) (Minister for Lands and Agriculture) states that throe thousand farms, of which a thousand are to be reserved for returned soldiers, \yill be made available, in 1916. CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH. BEFORE COMPULSORY SERViOE. Adelaide, December 11. The Council of the United Labour Party has decided to advocate tho compulsory gathering of wealth in conjunction with compulsory personal service, but will oppose compulsory personal servico without that of wealth. ITEMS IN BRIEF. DRY CANTEEN SYSTEM. Melbourne, December 11. Tho military authorities have decided to extend the dry canteen system by 1 establishing their own _ canteens iu ' Egjrpfc, and at the front, if possible. THE REFERENDUM. Melbourne, December 11. • A movement is afoot in Victoria and South Australia to resuscitate the Ro* ferendum. A CRICKETER ENLISTS. 5 Sydney, December 11. 3 - C. G. Macartney, tho international crickctor, has enlisted. { THE BREAD MONOPOLY BILL. ' Sydney, December 11. The Bread Monopoly Bill has been hung up, and will not be proceeded with March. ->
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2642, 13 December 1915, Page 6
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326AUSTRALIAN NEWS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2642, 13 December 1915, Page 6
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