RELIEF WORKERS’ STRIKE
Trouble in Melbourne COMPLAINTS AGAINST LEADERS (Received 17, 11.50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, March 17. Three hundred relief workers on the Shrine of Remembrance struck in sympathy with 150 men who ceased work earlier in the week because a man had been dismissed. The object is said to '■reate a strike of all relief workers in 'he metropolitan area. Complaints have been made to the Minister of Labour that many unemployed are afraid to sfart work where 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 instructed that men on strike must not receive food coupons, though women and children dependents will continue to be helped under medical advice.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 81, 17 March 1934, Page 7
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129RELIEF WORKERS’ STRIKE Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 81, 17 March 1934, Page 7
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