SEAMEN FIGHT.
DISTURBANCE AT NEWCASTLE,
SYDNEY, Dec. 4
A serious dispute among seamen employed on steamers owned by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company and used in the inter-State trade for the Newcastle steelworks, culminated in a free fight at the Newcastle Trades Hall to-day. Nearly fifty men kicked and fought one another until faces become covered with blood and clothes were in ribbons. At one stage there was almost a tragedy when two struggling men were in danger of falling over a balcony. The conflict occupied about ten minutes and stopped as suddenly as it started before the police could take a hand.
The dispute arose over maiming the ore freighters, Iron Master and Iron Prince. The Seamen’s Union wanted additional men put into the stokeholds, and threatened to expel the crews if they took the vessels to sea. The crews insisted that they were manning the vessels in accordance with the rules governing these ships, and refused to be coerced into a strike by the militants.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 5, 5 December 1931, Page 7
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