STRIKE TROUBLE AT BRISBANE
FIGHT BETWEEN FARMERS AND
SEAMEN
•FURTHER TROUBLE FEARED,
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIRICHT.)
(Received 2&h C/ctober, 11.30 a.m.) . IW.SBANE, This Day.: The strikers wed ■ physical force in ejecting a-number of graziers from the steamer Mahia at Gladstone. ' The, graziers came a/ooard for a.< social evening with, the-.captv.tin,. U ut! the crew," under the impression c that they were coming to work the shy), threatened to-throw -them into the haj'.bour if they did not leave. After blowo had been. exchanged, the farmei-s le/.t, and' the strikers ■ picketed the-.ship.
The farmers of the district, learning of •the trouble, flofcked to tho town, and at m: meeting; decided to render assist-ance-in, putting- coal aboard the' Mahia for the- refrigerators. .They also decided tua* if'the-vessel-was' not coaled" by li'fcsday an army of' farmers would pi;oceed to .the wharf and ■ commence b onkeriiig operations. Police reinforcements -have -been rushed to the town •• in anticipation of.further trouble.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 101, 26 October 1925, Page 7
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153STRIKE TROUBLE AT BRISBANE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 101, 26 October 1925, Page 7
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