WATERFRONT DISPUTE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20071, 8 October 1928, Page 9

WATERFRONT DISPUTE.

MELBOURNE SEAMEN. ( 600 JOIN THE STRIKERS. FIGHT WITH FREE LABOURERS., MELBOURNE. Oct. 6. . Six hundred seamen from 14 interStnto vessels struck to-day, refusing to work with volunteers. More than 3000 free labourers have been enrolled on the Melbourne wharves and 1500 are working. Further acts of violence are reported. Strikers hurled blue metal at volunteers who were leaving the Nestor. A fierce fight ensued. The volunteers stood their ground and , only one of them was seriously injured. He was sent to hospital. COMMENT IN LONDON. FIGHT AGAINST ANARCHY. MR, BRUCE'S FIRM STAND. Australian find N.Z. Pres3 Association (Received October 7, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 6. The Morning Post says the news from Australia about the waterside workers' strike shows that Mr. Brucc's policy of firmness is having success. If the Federal Government had been under the control of Socialists it is probable that no such firm stand would have been made and the people of Australia would have been left to fight anarchy themselves. There is an abundance of stout stuff in Australia, as was seen in tho wartime, and the people no doubt would have won through in tho end, but tho situation would have been incomparably more dangerous. Tho paper emphasises tho fact that the new award actually precipitated tho struggle. It says: " Machinery " between master and man, as between nation and natibn, will never take the place of knowledge, sympathy, and courage, which remain iri all relations of human kind the best, if not the only, pacifiers.