TIMBERMEN’S STRIKE.
WIDESPREAD DISTRESS. RELIEF RATIONS ISSUED. ALL BUILDING SUSPENDED. (By Telegrapfi— s-rea.i assg. —Ccpyrlgm.; inusiraliia Tress •tsnuciauou.) SYDNEY, May 6. The prolongation of the timber workers’ strike is causing great distress in Sydney and .Melbourne. The municipal authorities in both cities are providing relief rations. Bailiffs have sold up some of the strikers’ furniture. The police are now escorting all waggon loads of timber transported by volunteer workers. All building operations have been suspended, and the men formerly employed in them have been thrown out of work. The newspapers demand that stern measures shall be taken to suppress brutal attacks on volunteer workers. Ttie Sydney Morning Herald suggests the lash for such offenders. The coalmining deadlock is also accentuating the unemployment evil. There is no sign of a settlement.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17704, 7 May 1929, Page 7
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130TIMBERMEN’S STRIKE. Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17704, 7 May 1929, Page 7
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