SEAMEN’S UNION

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 34, 3 November 1928, Page 9

SEAMEN’S UNION

WALSH’S SECRETARYSHIP , OPPONENTS CALL AT OFFICE POLICE TO PRESERVE ORDER (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Rec, November 2, 8.30 p.m.) Sydney, November 2. Nine members of the Seamen's Union, claiming to 1 represent eight hundred, tramped into the seamen’s oflice to-day and called upon Tom Walsh to relinquish the general secretaryship. Two detectives sat between Walsh and the deputation, while a posse bf uniformed police lined the stairs leading to the oflice. Walsh, with all his old fighting spirit, flatly refused, and said he would do nothing of the kind. Vitriolic remarks were hurled all round, in which charges were made of interfering with the rules. Walsh, pounding the table, shot back: “Look here I A certain section of the union has committed the greatest outrage in history in the manipulation of those rules.” The deputation talked themselves to a standstill and left uttering all kinds of threats. •

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Bruntnell, stated to-day that he had instructed the police to adopt the sternest measures for the suppression of all forms of lawlessness, his comment arising out of threats against Walsh and the disturbances at election meetings.