BAILIFFS SELLING UP STRIKERS’ FURNITURE
Relief Rations
LASH SUGGESTED FOR ATTACKS ON WORKERS
BUILDING AT STANDSTILL,
Uuited Press Association —By Electrii Telegraph —Copyright. Received Monday, 8.50 p.m. SYDNEY, May 6.
The prolongation of the timber strike is causing great distress here and the Melbourne municipalities are providing relief rations. Bailiffs sold up some of the strikers’ furniture. Police are r.ow escorting all wagon-loads of timber transported by volunteers. All building jobs arc hold up and the men employed thereon are thrown out of work.
The press is demanding stern measures to suppress brutal attacks on volunteers. The Sydney Morning Herald suggests the lash for such offenders. The coal trouble is also accentuating unemployment,, with no sign of a settlement.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6902, 7 May 1929, Page 7
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