TIMBER TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1929, Page 5

TIMBER TROUBLE

(Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, May 12. Summonses are being issued agains ■ four Labour leaders, .Messrs .Jock Garden (secretary of the Labour Counci Disputes Committee), Karan :gli (chairman of the Committee), Reeve (a member) and Ryan, for participating in the demonstration made at the Daiiipghurst Court when a number of the tim ber strikers were summoned to return to work. ' v "' . avork ‘at Sydney. f* JRooeivec this day at 9.25. a.m.) ’ .SYDNEY, ’ ATav 13;,-. Air Corse, Secretary of the Timber Alerchants’ Assn, said at- theGcompletion of the fourteenth week of the strike, there are 15-17 mep employed in Sydney, and suburban yards and mills, working under the new award. Some yards are fully manned. Alore men ate being employed daily, and if the strike continues much longer a new Union will be built up.Strike allowances of £2 per week are inadequate, and there are many cases of acute distress reported. STATE OP SIEGE. THREAT BY TIMBER: WORKERS.’ MELBOURNE,* i May 13; ; The ■ Secretary of the Victofian Branch :of- the Seamen’s Union, O’Neij, told a mass meeting organised |by timber woikers, that’ Afelbourne was soon to experience a. state of siege. He hoped 23,000 men would participate in a march on Friday night. Nothing would he dorio.that : was : .not awful, but we will effectually prevent the transaction of , business and the police will have no alternative but to declare a- state of siege.