Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 73, 2 March 1916, Page 5

Australia

| THE MUNITIONERS* STRIKE. A JUDGE SEVERE. riTNiT«r.r Pkkhb Association.] (Received 9.5 a.m.) Sydney. March 2. Justice Heydon dealing Avitfi the waives eases, in which the men handliny; fuel in connect ion with the production of munitions had struck, said that the men bad practically caught Australia by the sword arm, and had buns on to it. and had thereby helped the Germans. SOLDIERS AND L'QUOR. THE EARLY-CLOSING MOVEMENT. (Receive] 9.5 a.m.) Sydney. March 2. < A citizens' demonstration at the Town Hall passed a motion in favor of an early-closing referendum, the time to be, preferably, six o'clock; it demanded the operation of the legislation for at least six months after the war, and the inclusion of an antishouting provision. j i NEW SOUTH WALES ASSEMBLY. (Received 9.20 a.m.) Sydney, March 2. The Assembly passed the second reading of the Defamation Amendment Act, rendering persons printing insulting matter liable to punishment, and similarly using insulting language in public. A motion to treat the removal of alien employees in the public service urgently, was negatived. The Cabinet discussed the question of the publication of unauthorised political news. The Pr (Mr Holman) stated that no attempt was being made to gag the press, who, if they want to sell their newspapers. \ must sell them on their merits, and 'not by retailing information which is not theirs to retail, and which is of a 'strictly private character. CONVERT TO CONSCRIPTION. (Received 9.20 a.m.) Melbourne, March 2. The Premier admitted that he has been converted to conscription, as it ! was evident that the voluntary s.vstem is insufficient to put the required i number of men in the field.