PORTER ATTACKED
MEN REFUSE TO SHOW TICKETS.
SYDNEY, November 16.
A report of extraordinary conduct on the part of workmen at Pymble has been made to the police. About 200 labourers in the employ of the Water and Sewerage Board, alight at Pymble railway station each morning about 7 o’clock. When Porter Wheeler, 18, on Thursday, asked them to show their tickets at the barrier he was subjected to rough handling. A large number of the men refused to accede to his request. Yesterday the men were again accosted by Wheeler, who made a similar request, and was subjected to further rough handling. In the melee he received a cut about six inches long on the left hand.
Constables Saunders and Porter, who were not far distant, hearing the commotion, hastened to the scene, but by the time they reached the platform the men had dispersed. On the platform near where Wheeler had been standing there was found a safety razor blade bearing blood stains. It is thought that the incision on Wheeler’s hand was caused by this instrument?
Last week Pbrtei' Todd, Ut is also stated, was picked up bodily and carried by the men up the steps leading from the station platform, this being the manner of theii’ refusal to “show tickets, please.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 November 1929, Page 12
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