The Gold Mines of Western Australia: A Terse Description of Conditions Past and Present of Australia's Greatest Mining BeltH. V. Courtayne |
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... Zealand was the first to act . One may perhaps hazard a guess why it was that her solution in 1897 took the form of that curious contradiction in terms , compulsory arbitration . In the first place New Zealand was then under the ...
... Zealand was the first to act . One may perhaps hazard a guess why it was that her solution in 1897 took the form of that curious contradiction in terms , compulsory arbitration . In the first place New Zealand was then under the ...
Page 59
... Zealand . In 1901 an Act to deal with labor troubles was passed in New South Wales , and it followed closely the lines laid down in the New Zealand Act . When that measure was introduced , its author , the then Attorney - General , Mr ...
... Zealand . In 1901 an Act to deal with labor troubles was passed in New South Wales , and it followed closely the lines laid down in the New Zealand Act . When that measure was introduced , its author , the then Attorney - General , Mr ...
Page 60
... Zealand , for example , one has only to recall the slaughtermen's strike in open defiance of the Act some three years ago , or to look at the present strike of the Government coal employees . In New South Wales there was the coal strike ...
... Zealand , for example , one has only to recall the slaughtermen's strike in open defiance of the Act some three years ago , or to look at the present strike of the Government coal employees . In New South Wales there was the coal strike ...
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... Zealand ; and thus it brings us back to the question whether those arguments were justified . Early in 1906 they were reiterated with emphasis by a Victorian minister who visited New Zealand , and returned in ecstacies over the ...
... Zealand ; and thus it brings us back to the question whether those arguments were justified . Early in 1906 they were reiterated with emphasis by a Victorian minister who visited New Zealand , and returned in ecstacies over the ...
Page 64
... Zealand certainly gave the working man what he wanted , higher wages and shorter hours . But it did so at the expense of the country . With the price of labor artificially raised , the prices of all other commodities . rose ...
... Zealand certainly gave the working man what he wanted , higher wages and shorter hours . But it did so at the expense of the country . With the price of labor artificially raised , the prices of all other commodities . rose ...
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