AUSTRALIAN LABOUR
LAWLESS TIMBER WORKERS
(Australian Press Association.) (By Gable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)
(Reed. March 23, 10 a.m.)
SYDNEY, March 23
An extraordinary scene, unprecedented in Australian Union history, has been arranged by union officials directing the timber workers’ strike, as an open challenge, ■ not only to the Arbitration Court, but also to the Federal Government. The strikers have decided to stage their ballot burning demonstration on Wednesday night. Also a large effigy of Judge Lukin has been built, and this will be derisively committed to the flames. The ashes will be addressed to the Judge and forwarded to Melbourne. Moderate unionists are alarmed.
COAL LOCK-OUT.
CANBERRA, March 22
The Federal Government has decided to take proceedings against the well-known coal owner, John Brown, of Newcastle, for causing an alleged lock out on the northern coalfields.
The action is being taken under the Industrial Peace Act, which forbids any person or any organisation bound by an award from doing any thing in the nature of a lock-out or a strike. The penalty ranges from £5O to £lOOO. The case will be heard after Easter.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1929, Page 7
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