UNEMPLOYED STRIKE
INTIMIDATION ALLEGED.
[by CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.]
(Recd. March 17, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 17.
Complaints were made to the Minister of Labour that many unemployed were afraid to start work where it is offering, owing to threats of personal violence and other acts of intimidation by strike-leaders. The police have been apprised of the complaints, and the Government relief depots have been instructed that men on strike must not receive food coupons, though the women and children dependants will continue to be helped under medical advice.
AT MELBOURNE.
MELBOURNE, March 17.
Three hundred relief workers on the Shrine of Remembrance struck in sympathy with 150 who ceased work earlier in tlie week, because a man had been dismissed. The object is said to be to create a strike of all relief workers in the metropolitan area.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 March 1934, Page 7
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