FIGHT FOR OFFICE
STRIKERS IN SYDNEY
ALL-NIGHT SIEGE REPORTED (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) Rec. 1.15 p.m. SYDNEY, May 2. About 800 of the 3000 Sydney dock and iron workers who have been on strike for the past five weeks last night fought for possession of their union offices. One man was taken to hospital suffering from head injuries alleged to have been inflicted with a bottle.
Iron bars and an axe. were used to smash down the main, door of the office. The disturbance followed a meeting of the ironworkers when an attempt was made to suspend the officials of the branch.
The officials, with about 150 supporters, retired to the union offices, where they remained throughout the night, resisting the efforts of the strikers to evict them.
The police were called out.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1945, Page 8
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