WAR ON “BASHER” GANGS
WILD SCENES IN STATE ASSEMBLY BAVIN PRESENTS BILL Reed. 0.45 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. The Premier, Mr. T. R. Bavin, in introducing into Parliament the Mass Picketing Prevention Bill, stated that of 90 volunteer timber workers attacked by the “basher” gangs, 4S were in hospital, maimed. Women and children were terrorised. Mr. Bavin laid on the Assembly table long bolts which had been driven into logs to smash machines. Amid wild'scenes, he discribed the Bill as designed to prevent for ever gang terrorisation and brutal savagery. The Bill makes heavily punishable offences of any form of mass picketing, and any attempts, to hinder, intimidate, threaten or injure persons or their dependants who are engaged in lawful work.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 779, 27 September 1929, Page 9
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120WAR ON “BASHER” GANGS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 779, 27 September 1929, Page 9
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