STRIKE NUISANCE IN AUSTRALIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1928, Page 6

STRIKE NUISANCE IN AUSTRALIA.

The people of Australia are troubled by a strike nuisance which in one form or another threatens to become perpetual.. Its latest development has been in connection with a group ot waterside workers who declined to accept .lodge Beefy’s award and register under the Transport Act. Not content with passive resistance, the strikers at port Adelaide proceeded to overt, acts of violence directed towards intimidating the voluntary labour offering, the violence in some iuaiK'Cs being of a. peculiarly ihrut-il kind. There is a strong susnicion Iha I Ihe bomb outrages reported from have their origin in the same spirit of lawlessness, a. spirit which has prompted the Premier of South Australia to organise a citizen’s defence brigade for the purpose of preventing further intimidation anil putting a stop to attempts at violence. \nd while the conieience of Waterside Union representatives have explicitly denounced the -outrage, and have do hired that the men on strike ivrc not rosnnnsible for these dastardly acts reported, it. is not possible to disngard the connection altogether. Willi eonsiderajhle forbearance 'the Premier of (South Australia has intimated tb-'t no additional volunteer labour will he engaged until the strikers have had export unity to register under the Act, and the test will come should they persist in their refusal. The warning issued to Australia”, trade unionists may not be disreoardcfl. “Whatever may be the instigation of the present violence,” says Air Walsh, “it is clear an atlcmnt is being made to terrorise the free people of Australia into submission to an ugly form of tyranny.” And the time has come to make a stand. —EXCHANGE.