VIOLENCE AT BRISBANE WHARVES.
TWO VOLUNTEER WOFKERS INJURED. " ' .FREE LABOUR PLENTIFUL. (By Telegraph-Press Assn -Copyright.) - (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. There were disorderly sceu.es at the local wharves during the week-end. Stores were thrown and two volunteers were injured. About' six hundred, volunteers have enrolled, and thirteen steamers are be- .- ing worked. Local unionists have foimed their • own Strike executivi and „t.<ken the •dispute out of the hands of their officials FEDERATION FINED £IOOO. . MAXIMUM PENALTY UNDER THE ACT. /By Telegraph—Press Association.) MELBOURNE, Sept. 22. The Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia has been fined the maximum of £IOOO for an offence against the Commonwealth Arbitration Act* in that on September 10th it ordered, encouraged, advise.d a.nd incited its' members to .refuse to accept employment on the steamer Karomilla.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 September 1928, Page 5
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