TO END MASS PICKETING
N.S.W. PREMIER'S MEASURE ANTIDOTE TO BASHER GANGS HEAVY PENALTY PROVIDED By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian Press Association. Sydney, Sept. 27. The Premier of New South Wales, Mr. T. R. Bavin, introducing into Parliament a Mass Picketing Prevention Bill, stated that of 90 volunteer timber workers attacked by basher gangs, 48 were in hospital maimed, and women and children were terrorised. Mr. Bavin laid on the assembly table long bolts which had been driven into logs to smash machines, amid wild scenes. He described the Bill :; designed to prevent for ever gang terrorisation and brutal savagery. The Bill makes heavily punishable offences of any form of- mass picketing and any attempts to hinder, intimidate, threaten or injure persons or their dependents who are engaged i- their lawful work.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1929, Page 9
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131TO END MASS PICKETING Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1929, Page 9
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