SENT TO STEAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 246, 17 October 1928, Page 7

SENT TO STEAL.

GELIGNITE WANTED.

Explosive "To Put Wind Up"

Free Labourers.

STRIKERS' ALLEGATION.

(Received 11 a.m.)

BRISBANE, this day.

Ernest Ryan was convicted and fined for stealing gelignite, from the City Council store. • The police stated that Ryan had been approached by two men on behalf of Mr. "Andy" Brown, the secretary of the Brisbane Waterside Workers' Union, to obtain explosive so that they could "put the wind up the scabs." Newcastle Storm Centre. The storm . centre of the waterside trouble appeared to be at Newcastle yesterday. A clash occurred there between the strikers and volunteer workers on- the wharves.

A large crowd of strikers found a party of volunteers greatly inferior in number to themselves working the steamer • Port Campbell. They attacked them with road metal and stones.

The free labourers were forced to take the defensive until the police arrived and dispersed l the rioters. One man had his face injured with a boat-hook.

Additional details of the affray show that 150.. volunteers were driven into a cargo shed. They were locked inside by the police for their own protection. The strikers gradually drifted away, but later attacked volunteer workers on tho steamer Golden Kauri.

The police charged with their batons drawn. They felled about 20 of the strikers and their sympathisers, all of whom were treated at a hospital.

The police are now determined 1 to prevent a repetition of rioting. Larger numbers of them will be placed along the wharves..

The Federal Attorney-General, Mr. J. G. Latham, has' telegraphed to the secretary of the Geeloug branch of the Stevedores' Association asking whether the members of that organisation intend to carry on the strike instituted on Monday by two. of their number. If so, the Government would take appropriate actiou to meet the position.