ALLEGED LOCK-OUT.
GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION. AUSTRALIAN DISPUTE. (Received Friday, 7 p.m.) CANBERRA, Mar/i 22. The Federal Government decided to take proceedings against a well-known coal-owner, John Brown, of Newcastle, for causing an alleged lock-out on the Northern coalfields. Action is to be taken under the Industrial Peace Act, which forbids any person or organisation bound by an award from doing anything in the nature of a lock-out or ( strike. The penalty ranges from £5O to £lOOO. The ease will be heard after] Easter.—(Australian Press Association) :
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Wairarapa Age, 23 March 1929, Page 5
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86ALLEGED LOCK-OUT. Wairarapa Age, 23 March 1929, Page 5
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