GENERAL STRIKE
BROKEN HILL VOICE PROTEST. AT GOVERNMENT’S ACTION: (Australian Press Association).,, (Received this day at 11.45 a.m.) .. . .• • - - SYDNEY, March 20. Broken Hill yesterday witnessed la general strike as -a protest against tho Government’s removal of a number of families from tlie benefits under the Compensation Act,, under which they received payments arising from deaths of men from pneumoconiosis'; - J ' J '“ 1 -*• All shops and theatres are closed, except hotels. , There is no bread, no ice, and only a partial milk delivery. No newspapers are published.'. , . . . / . .. ... Essential services, , lighting, - t water, and railways are: partied on by special arrngement. ” Meetings of citizens at., which,; the. -, speakers included clergymenpassed resolutions deriianding the restoration of the affected people to the benefits under the Act, otherwise a further.w stoppage' will probably take place.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1934, Page 5
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