ATTACKS ON SEAMEN VOLUNTEERS
Strike Committee Official Blames Criminals
(Received January 12, 6.30 p.m.) Sydney, January 12.
Mr. Higgins, secretary of the Newcastle seamen’s strike committee, declares that thugs intent upon robbery, and not seamen, are responsible for attacks on volunteers, adding “They feel safe in the knowledge that seamen will be blamed.”
At Brisbane yesterday crews of dredges, barges, pleasure steamers anil tugs decided not to strike, although they voted confidence in the strike committee and imposed upon themselves a levy of five per cent, of their wages in support of the strikers. Three coastal steamers left Sydney on Friday night with the same union crews, the men having ignored the union instruction to give notice. At Adelaide Michael Anhndinow. a licensed senman and a member of the crew of the steamer Aldinga, which is manned by volunteers, was sent to the hospital suffering from concussion and deep head wounds. It is believed he was attacked. His condition is serious.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 92, 13 January 1936, Page 9
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