SIGNS OF COLLAPSE
TIMBER TRADE STRIKE VOLUNTARY RESUMPTIONS COMMITTEE REPUDIATED. lAuutralittu Pres* Association.) (Received 11.10 a.in.) . SYDNEY, This Day. There are indications that the timber’.strike i’s liable to collapse at anv time.
During the last few days about 200 men; have returned to work, while, timber -merchants state that applications for re-employment have been received from many skilled men. ' Yesterday 150 men rse limed work
on m.w buildings in the city, after defying .the .Strike Committee and forcihgv it to sanction .their return. Following, on a meeting of employ ers and employees in Melbourne, the prospects of a . settlement are considered bright. '
Houses at Waverley, Paddington and Drummoyno were damaged yesterday by stones thrown, it is alleged, : by strikers or, sympathisers, who drove 'found in a motor car. The inmates escaped narrowly.
Bunches of fireworks were throw) through broken windows.
The attacks were not confined to homes of volunteer workers.
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Northern Advocate, 23 May 1929, Page 6
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