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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 08, 1919
Page
6
Community notices include medical professional profiles and travel updates. Dentists in Abbott Building advertise contact details while H F Wiseman and H Wiseman travel aboard Mourilyan to Cooktown. Customs and medical staff entries mention Cairns addresses and ship movements.
The article notes two substitute verses in the national anthem approved with His Majesty's safeguards. The altered lines were sung during a service outside St Paul's Cathedral. It mentions lyrics praising the empire and homeland with calls to God to save the land and sea.
Chief Officer F Strang defends his crew against a Saturday newspaper claim that the Mourilyan’s second officer followed the captain’s course. He warns reputations suffer from ill advised statements and cites naval proverb to defend his position.
A letter to the Post and Herald denounces a recent "Passenger's Story" about the Mourilyan stranding as idiotic nonsense. The writer, Cynilus, says such reports mislead the public and warns a future voyage should be booked steerage to Goodna, though he denies intent to harm authorities.
Toronto July 2 Industrial Canada reports the general strike in Winnipeg and western cities called off, the One Big Union and Bolshevik ties routed, and law and order restored. Arrests of strike leaders revealed funds from Bolshevik sources in Chicago and a crackdown by authorities secured peace and stability.
The piece notes mass displacement after a major walkout, with thousands losing jobs and policemen signing an oath against further sympathy strikes. It reports a Manitoba commission inquiry into the movement and a federal bid to deport revolutionaries and agitators. It cites a Royal Commission report urging an eight hour day, unemployment and old age insurance, living wages, and proportional representation debates.
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