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Newspaper
Meekatharra Miner
Location
Meekatharra, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 09, 1917
Page
2
A mixed notice offers 200 tons of Wool for CART ING, plus back loading from July to December over about 130 miles, with price £120 to D J Colgan Meekatharra. It includes a church notice and an essay urging industrial patriotism, production rise, and postwar economic reset, stressing human and mechanical factors, potential unemployment, and long term plans.
A broad call for action to avert social and economic collapse after war urges workers and employers to unite. It warns against LW W-ism and syndicalism, advocates wage boards and industrial councils, and argues that cooperation ends class conflict, boosts productivity, and stabilizes industry amid wartime strains.
A Melbourne meeting of the Trades Mall Council, held with strict secrecy and guards, discussed life and labor conscription and sought representation from principal Victoria Labour Councils. It proposed forming an Inter-State Anti-Conscription Congress and electing six delegates, as executives reported prior inquiries with Labour Councils across states.
The National Parliamentary Party held a meeting in Perth yesterday from 2.30 p.m. to after 6 p.m. to discuss a proposed national platform. Premier said little beyond noting progress and that the conference would reconvene at 11 a.m. tomorrow.
The article details numerous mining leases and activity along a belt, with many parties testing lodes and reefs. Key players include Blue Streak, Golden Butterfly Co, Cavanta, McMahon, Moffit, Colgan, and Spencer, with various crushings and ore samples cited and plans for shafts, crosscuts, and extensions across multiple leases such as Duplicate, Triplicate, Tosiana, and Nigel.
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