STRIKE EXTENDED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 596, 23 February 1929, Page 1

STRIKE EXTENDED

MORE WORKERS CALLED OUT MANY ASSAULTS MADE (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. 10.35 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. The Disputes Committee of the Sydney Labour Council has called out all clerks, electricians, and sheet-metal workers in an endeavour to complete around the timber yards that have been declared “black” a circle through which free labourers cannot penetrate. Approximately £3,000 in strike pay was distributed yesterday. Numerous assaults were made by the pickets on the timber workers. A Melbourne message says that some of the strikers in the timber trade motored to Vines Mills on the Surry Hills yesterday and viciously assaulted volunteer workers inside the mills with bars of iron, sling shots and improvised batons. Two volunteers were taken to hospital. The attackers decamped in a car before the arrival of the police. SYDNEY “REDS” WIN PEACE PARLEY DEFEATED DELEGATES WITHDRAWN Reed. 10.35 a.m. LONDON, To-day. The Sydney Communist influences on the Sydney Labour Council have succeeded in securing a withdrawal of the council’s remaining delegates from the Industrial Peace Conference, including Mr. Jock Garden. It is now considered unlikely that the conference will be able to continue.

An earlier message said that the conference was still waiting on Mr. Garden, who was threatened by the

“Reds” with violence if he did not withdraw from the conference.

Mr. Garden was rebuked by the Reds on Thursday evening and again last evening. He was provided with a police guard at the Town Hall yesterday.