WATERSIDE STRIKE

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1928, Page 6

WATERSIDE STRIKE

WHOLE GREW SACKED. !-• . •;» . * (Australian Press Association.)! (United Service).

11j BRISBANE, Sept 27

the steamer Toondi Jirrived at Goo'ndi Mill wharf to load, the crew notified that they were unwilling to rig tackle, nor would they take the vessel to sea, if .it. were to be loaded •by farmers. . The owners of the vessel cUsmiisecl ; the whole crew.’ "Farmers are now loading the vessel, and they will iiian the ship for Cairns. j NON-UNIONISTS HUNTED. 1 OFF ALL PORT ADELAIDE SHIPS. ' ADELAIDE, Sept. 27. ' The waters!ders to-day took charge 0.1 Port Adelaide, when 'they marched in procession, from the Trades Hall over Robinson’s Bridge 4 , where the police made no .attempt to prevent them reaching the Free Labour Bureau. On reaching it, the swarmed over the closed ■ gate, and chased the volunteers, who ran in all directions. Thojlfe were many fights. Free, labourafter being thrashed, * were allowed to escape. : > - •' ■“ t • •' ' ; The strikers marched to three vessels lying at the wharves loading. The police here made an effort to disperse the men. Police reinforcements arriving, tjjey finally broke the ranks of the, riotefl'V\ | '"p% Y l Diirin# the disturbances the strikers swarmed up:the gangway of the steamer ‘Nflrdpua,' and working the winches and moving cargo, while others tried to loosen the lines holding the ves^4.'tbl 1-wimrf vTdxey - desisted j however, ! when the other rioters objected. The strikers, who were armed with pieces of timber and 'itietal, attacked the volunteers who were working the Nardana, and chased them into the wharf sheds. The men also attempted to board the German steamer, Hanan, but the ship’s officers were armed with revolvers and truncheons,” and they kept them at a di.sancc, from which the strikers' bombarded the volunteers on tirp dec,k witlr, a. v.oilev /oi stones and coal, severely injuring nine of the volunteers before thq remainder, were ordered under the Jiatdhes.

Ijfifl, . .tho; Un-ipn. ’tfjcen control' of* Die situation, There would have been no limit to the injuries and danger to human life. Throughout the riot the stskAfs; were tod dnumerdus for tlfs.| fmli;oef tod deal 1 With; d the-'.height, iof Hhe ■ disturb-* ante, a body of sixty free labourers marched from the wharf, they having been granted a safe conduct, on conthat tlnjy left wui u, ■ When the strikers attacked the vessels. many ’of ” ‘the 'volunteers j umped overboard, and swam across the river to Birkenhead.

Was not a single volunteer in sight of any of the Vessels-.. ,

A large contingent of police from Adelaide were now on the scene of tfm disturbance, SkM&rfiqttsVße’iA c-ame quiet, f YBB fVlrl % U$ A O 3 '-a

the rival Terms. JT) VMELBCIURNE/ ,-Sept.. J 27. - ' Preri)jefV..3Tfl. Hogan, .the delegaLea from. the, Transport Conference statM that the only possibility for a Fitticment of the dispute was the withdrawn! by the" Federal Government of its registration regulations. • A meeting of tile ship-owners informed Premier Hogan that there could he no negotiations for a settlement until the. .returned'o work under'the Be-, eby“. Award in-every port in the Commonwealth.