AUSTRALIA'S TROUBLE

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2135, 14 February 1929, Page 5

AUSTRALIA'S TROUBLE

STRIKE' AND STRIKERS <Aust. ana N.Z. Gable). Sydney, Feb, 13. . Trades Hall officials declare they are not peiytjurbed by the timber merchants’ t'l;treat to engage free labour. They are of opinion they will not get much of a response. There were lively scenes to-day at the South Wharf, Melbourne, where volunteer drivers were stoned 1 unionist strikers from the timber yards. The police took a hand and discharged revolvers over the heads of the disturbers. A policeman, c'ltised (one assailant half a, mile. He faug'hb him in a. waterside office and dragged him out. Canberra, Fdb. 13..

Mr W. M/ Hughes, commenting on the action of the trades unions in desiring to withdraw from the Arbitration Court, said their action amounted to a frontal attack on the arbitrator system. They had everything to gain by arbitration, which afforded a relatively economical means of redressing grievances, and their action was most ill-considered.;