THREATS OF VIOLENCE
Australian Allegations RELIEF WORKERS’ FEARS Sydney, March 17. Complaints have been made to the Minister of Labour that many unemployed men are afraid to start work where work is offering owing to threats of personal violence and other acts of intimidation by strike leaders. The police have been apprised of the complaints, ami Government relief depots have been instructed that' men on strike must not receive food coupons, though women and children and dependants will continue to be helped under medical advice. STRIKE IN MELBOURNE Workers on New Shrine Melbourne, March 17. Three hundred relief workers on the Shrine of Remembrance struck in sympathy with 150 who ceased work earlier in the week because a man had been dismissed. The object is said to be to create a stifike of all relief workers in the metropolitan area.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 147, 19 March 1934, Page 9
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140THREATS OF VIOLENCE Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 147, 19 March 1934, Page 9
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