WATERFRONT MELEE.

Grey River Argus, 2 November 1928, Page 5

WATERFRONT MELEE.

At Melbourne. NON UNIONISTfe ROUGHLY HANDLED. (Received November 1 at 7.50 pm) MELBOURNE. November 1. The worst elash arising out of the strike occurred to-day between some unionistsand volunteers. b <-ven volunteers we e travelling i» a train to Fort Melbourne. They were battered all the wav from the city to the waterside, a distance of four miles, and one was thrown into ‘he sea. stones bun„ thrown at him in the water. Six more wore pushed into a pit alongside the Port Melbourne station, despite a warning that another train wa, due. The attackers earned waddies con coaled ill newspapers. The man was rescued from the sea more dead than 11 The volunteer* watersiders on the pier had to be restrained from making a counter attack The police state the first attack on the volunteers occurred when the men were about to cuter the train for Port Melbourne. They were hopelessly outnumbered, and were knocked' down and kicked, and were just able to struggle into the train, where attacks continued. Isolated tights occurred at Port Melbourne wharves for two hours. Mounted troopers arrived and dispersed the rioters, who had grown to a thousand. Some dreadful language was used the whole time.