TIMBER TRADE IDLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16869, 5 February 1929, Page 7

TIMBER TRADE IDLE

AUSTRALIAN DISPUTE . NO MERCY FOR VOLUNTEERS SYDNEY, Feb. 4. Tho timber trade is idle to-day. The unionists presented themselves at the various mills.and works this morning, hut were not engaged, Following upon their refusal to work Saturday half-day to make up the 48 hours week. Three thousand hands are affected and tho union officials have been considering their attitude towaids the possible engagement of volunteer workers. One official is reported as saying: "The only way to get at the volunteer worker is through fear: yon men will have to put fear into them." He urged that no me ry be shown to the volunteers. The allied unions are conferring today. The timber workers' Sydnev committee consults the Australian Council of Trades Union executive in Melbourne. The unions propose to raise finance for a long struggle by keeping as many workers as possible in employment, so that the levies can be made on full pay capaeitv. A mass meeting was held today and was attended by men who were not enraged tin's morning, who discussed nlnns for picketing. The crane drivers and ensiine drivers ■if the log mills will cease work to-mor-row in sympathy with the. mill bands. Practically all the bush' mills in Victoria are shut down this week, owing to the timber Strike. \ large number of volunteers have been enrolled at Adelaide to renlace the strikers in the timber vards. The carters and drivers are still working.