VIOLENCE BY TIMBER STRIKERS
VOLUNTEERS SEVERELY HANDLED SHOTS FIRED IN SELF-DEFENCE (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. March 6, 9.30 p.m.) Sydney, March 6. Seven volunteer timber employees were severely handled by strikers when returning to their homes last night. The attackers escaped in a car. The employers are offering a reward of £5O for the conviction of any of the offenders. Melbourne, March 6.
Eight strikers in three cars raided the timber mills at Tooronga to-day armed with bricks, pieces of timber, and road metah They broke all the windows in the building, and the accountant, in self-defence, fired four shots from a revolver at the raiders, one of whom was wounded. His comrades assisted him to the motor-car and the party decamped.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 138, 7 March 1929, Page 11
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