INDUSTRIAL STRIFE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 67, 22 March 1929, Page 11

INDUSTRIAL STRIFE

REACTION IN POLITICS

SCENE IN STATE PARLIAMENT

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 22nd March, 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Disorderly scenes in tho Legislative Assembly continue largely as tho outcome of the industrial strife in this State. Several men in the Strangers' Gallery last night created a violent' scene during the debate on tho Workmen's Compensation Amendment Act. One man shouted, whilo being removed by tho police: "Wo will return hero soon and settle tho lot of you with rifles." The gallery wus closed after this. A startling decision not to vote in the forthcoming ballot on the strike, but to burn tho ballot paper in a public bonfire was reached at a meeting of the timber workers and their wives in th'j Town Hall.

Tho movo has received unanimous support from the Communists, who woro present in strong numbers. A mass meeting of strikers is to bo convened, when the strikers aro expected to attend with their papers, which aro to be destroyed. Communists of both sexes played a prominent part in tho demonstration, speaking from tho platform and loading and singing revolutionary songs.

Throe launches in which volunteer labour is taken to and from tho tiinbc:r yards wero tampered with over night. Holes were drilled in their bottoms, an I thoy wero discovered in a sinking con clition.