OFFENSIVE TACTICS
COERCION AND THREATS,
NON-UNIONISTS ASSAULTED.
(Received May 11th, 10.50 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, May 11.
The victims of tho North Melbourne scrimmage were the driver and firemau of the Korumburra train. They were hooted and hustled by a crowd of strikers, who tried to coerce them to leave work.
The driwr refused, and was knocked down and roughly handled. Hβ made his way through the crowd ■with the aid of sympathisers. The strikers' efforts were more successful with the fireman, who joined the strikers. Two arrests have been made. A few other isolated'instances are reported where, by violent coercion or threats, chiefly from tlie strikers and their sympathisers, man have been prevented from going to work.
The passengere by the express to Adelaide, amongst whom, was the Hon. C. C. Kingston, Federal Minister of Customs, had an unpleasant experience. The train was left stranded across the points at Stawell. Inspector Leslie as daiver and a cierk as fireman took charge. A breakdown and a long delay occurred at Glenorchy. Another engine was procured, but was not tmmciently powerful, the greased lines on the gradients also impeding the progress. The train arrived eleven hours late.
The strikers anticipate the levy on the railway men in other States alone will yield two thousand pounds weekly.
OFFENSIVE TACTICS
Press, Volume LX, Issue 11581, 12 May 1903, Page 5
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