FREE LABOUR AT PORT MELBOURNE.
VOLUNTEERS ASSAULTED. (By Telegraph-Pi ess Assn-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Several hundred volunteers who engaged for wharf work were heckled at the Port Melbourne wharves. One .man, was violently assaulted and asother attacked. The police arrived and made an arrest. Nine overseas vessels are being worked and arrangements have been, made for the volunteers to sleep oh the wharves. Court proceedings have, been 1 instituted against the Waterside Workers .Federation for inciting their members to strike. Great interest is being taken in the proceedings. The hearing has not yet concluded.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 September 1928, Page 5
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