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men who have lost their jobs, are starving, & there is to be a street collection on Friday for them, & subscriptions (amongst them, £100 from John Bridge & Co!) are being announced daily, but the Government has set aside £20,000 for any cases of real need, & the City Council has (very illegally) voted £1000 from the City rates for the relief of distress, so that no one will starve, & it will do the late strike leaders, who have all lost their jobs, much good to earn their livings in some new occupations. Both the Government (in the Railways & Tramways) & other employers (in the mines, & elsewhere) refused to re-engage any men who had been prominent in stirring up strife. The strikers yelled "No victimisation!" but all employers stood firm & refused to take back everyone, as used to be done in former strikes.

Today new regulations by the Commonwealth Government are published, forbidding the employment of anyone, who is not a natural-born British subject, on any of our ships or wharves. It is just about three years late, but perhaps better late than never. The very serious fires on various big steamers, the facts that there are severeal vessels missing, others blown up from inside & from outside, and a nice pleasant little mine field discovered

 

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