SENSATIONAL RIOT

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 75, 24 February 1930, Page 7

SENSATIONAL RIOT

TROUBLE AT NEWCASTLE.

VOLUNTEERS AND UNIONISTS.

MAN DYING IN HOSPITAL. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, Feb. 23. A number of free labourers who had just been paid off at a shipping office at Newcastle yesterday were crossing a street when a unionist hurled a muchused epithet descriptive of his scorn for volunteer workers.

Then the trouble started. The unionist was chased, others joined in, and almost instantly half-a-dozen free fights were in progress. The police arrived and made one arrest and restored peace for a time.

The crowds grew, however, evidently awaiting the next outbreak. Tins was not long in coming. A row started in an hotel bar, spread outside, and when a policeman arrested the man who appeared to be the principal in the affair, sympathisers asked why the free labourer was not taken, too, and began to closo in threateningly. Police reinforcements arrived, got their man to the station and arrested four others. A number of hotheads seemed inclined to rescue their mates from the lock-up, but wiser counsels prevailed, and eventually the crowds dispersed.

STABBED IN THE BACK,

ATTACKED IN DARK SPOT.

•Received February 24, 10.10 a.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 24.

The climax to the sensational riot between wharf labourers and free labourers at Newcastle was reached last night, when a free labourer, Ben Pauli, was stabbed and is now dying in hospital. Ben Pauli and his brother Henry were attacked in a dark spot. Henry Pauli, in struggling with his attacker, was severely cut about the hands and arms.

SEQUEL TO ASHTON DISORDERS

“COWARDLY, INHUMAN CONDUCT.”

NEWCASTLE, Feb. 22.

Of the 72 men who participated in tho Ashton Fields Colliery disorders on January 10, when two men from that pit were molested, stripped naked, beaten, and pursued into the. bush, 68 were convicted to-day by Mr lteed, S.M. The three ringleaders—A. Gazzell, Vincent Charlton and H,arry Deas—were each sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Five others were fined £lB, in default four months’ imprisonment. The remainder, with two exceptions, were fined £B, in default two months’ imprisonment. The two exceptions, who had befriended tho victims of the outrage, were fined £3.

The magistrate described the conduct of the ringleaders as dastardly, cowardly and inhuman. He said that it was hard to believe that such outrages could be committed in a civilised age. :