Industrial Co-Operation and the Australian Labor Question
A discussion on industrial unrest in Australia, criticizing compulsory arbitration and wages boards as failing to unite capital and labour. It argues for welfare work, health, and education in Britain and the U.S. as a model, urging Australian employers to adopt worker welfare practices to foster cooperation and higher productivity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
United States
Australia
Bill Australia
Worker Exhaustion Highlighted in Munition Works Study
A study of Munition Works operations and medical and business committees finds true efficiency requires guarding against worker exhaustion from excessive effort. It warns that speeding up workers may reduce overall productivity and harm outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P Medical
The New Industrial Family and Labour Cooperation
The article argues labor and capital should cooperate beyond wages, detailing failures of profit sharing and co‑partnership. It urges viewing workers’ needs including housing, health, and unemployment protection, and proposes industry wide obligations to foster a genuine employer employed community. It notes welfare departments exist abroad and cautions against patronage while stressing equality of opportunity in Australia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Arbitration Court
Great Britain
Thhe
United States
Commonwealth
Dr Morse Pills and Australian Worker Co operation
The piece urges women to send Morse's Indian Root Pills to front line soldiers and promotes worker welfare via industry joint committees. It argues for co operative stores, housing support, provident societies, insurance, and better working conditions to curb the high cost of living and protect exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Morse
Dr. Moree
Egypt
Australians as a People Recognize Workers of All Kinds
The passage argues that Australia values all workers not just manual laborers and acknowledges superior knowledge across groups. It asserts that Australians, as a people, recognize skill and capacity beyond traditional worker classifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Industrial Family Dividends and Cooperative Policy
The article details a shift toward industrial cooperation reshaping capital and labor. It describes cooperative stores financed by each industry with joint management representing employers and employees to cut living costs and reorganize retail distribution. Early examples show small daily wage savings for married workers.
Beware of Pain Promised Relief for Influenza and Other Ailments
An advertisement extols Wawn's Wonder-Wool as a medicated cotton-wool remedy stopping pain in influenza bronchitis quinsy and other ailments. It promotes the product at 2/6 a packet and ties its use to cooperative labor benefits and employer-employee community interests.
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Europe
Jervis
Wawn
Chemiata
Southouse & Craig, Ltd
Adelaide
Cooperative bread and housing schemes for Melbourne workers
A Melbourne manufacturing model proposes employee co operation to cut bread costs via a worker managed supply and a two mile depot delivery system. It adds housing support with 40 percent finance from banks and 40 percent from the industry, forming a joint housing committee to build reinforced concrete homes for groups of up to ten workers.
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Ite
Busines
Melbourne
Moat Tien
Australia
Industrial Family Dividends in Australia Proposal
A proposed overhaul of workers compensation and welfare in Australia envisions a joint funded scheme where workers and employers contribute to a fixed fund to pay higher benefits. Aimed at creating a community of interest, it would replace existing compulsory insurance with shared management, faster arbitrations, and cooperative distribution of life’s necessities, lowering disputes and improving production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Cens
Provident Society
Federal Arbitration Court
A boon to growing girls tonic nerve nuts advertised
A Victorian era advertisement touts Hean's Tonic Nerve Nuts as essential for teen girls to keep blood rich and nerves nourished. The product is sold by chemists and stores at 3 shillings per box, with a 13 day supply or six boxes for 17 shillings 4 pence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hean
Heanzo Hean's Essence Cough Remedy Ad
An old advertisement urges readers to obtain HEENZO from a chemist and mix it with wart water and honey to create a cheap cough and sore throat remedy. The notice claims cost savings over standard mixtures and offers to mail a bottle for 2 shillings plus 3 pence postage from G. W. Hean, Manus, Chemist, 178 Castlereagh Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hean
G. W. Hean
Manus
Castlereagh Street Ney
P. and O. Branch Service Rates and Fleet Details
The text lists P. and O. branch steamers with references to wireless and electric light, noting fully equipped ships carrying stewards and medical staff. It provides a mix of vessel names, tonnages, and destinations, then shifts to government service rates for routes to Darbas and Day with a series of figures.
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the & O
Dodonaea
Doctor Angle
Sesea
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ITI
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Arior
Darien, Ceneren
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Benalla
Bheltama
Bereima
B. Borda
Darbas
IL AS
Guises
London
George Wills
Tonie
Freakin Street
Jane Kohler
Tateraoma
Philip Marks
Rodway & Treié
Lodway
Marshall's
Rend
Birks, Obemiaty
Criterion
Hotel Steae Eee
Tha Hotel
Moat Sad
West End
Whallin, Erofkjetor
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