SYDNEY TIMBER STRIKE
VOLUNTEER WORKERS
(.United Prom Association —By lileotrie i'oleicrapti—UopyrigbfJ SYDNEY, 19th July. Tho organiser of the volunteer timber workers, Air J. O’Brien, stated that his organisation was endeavouring to fill every striker’s job with free labour. Skilled men were coming from all tho other States. He had placed 147 volunteers since Tuesday, and there would soon be none of the strikers’ jobs left. POLICE STONED l Received 20th July, 9.50 a.m.) • SYDNEY, This Day. The police were stoned by timber strikers during, a mass picketing demonstration outside Hudson’s timber yards at Glebe. .As volunteer workers were leaving the yards over two hundred police were in attendance as escorts, and two thousand strike pickets, who were urged on by women, attempted .to isolate the volunteers. Four men were arrested during the demonstration. One constable was injured by a flying missile. The police succeeded in keeping the strikers back while the workers reached trams.
Woman spat at the police and volunteers. and shouted abuse as they passed. After singing revolutionary songs the strikers dispersed.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 20 July 1929, Page 7
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174SYDNEY TIMBER STRIKE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 20 July 1929, Page 7
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