VOLUNTEERS ATTACKED
SECOND EDITION
BLUE METAL HURLED BRUTAL STRIKERS (Received 11.30 a m.) United Press Assn—By Electric Telegraph—Copy ri edit. MELBOURNE This Day. Six hundred seamen from fourteen intcr-State vessels struck, refusing to work with volunteers. More than 3000 volunteers have been enrolled on the Melbourne wharves, and 1500 are working. Further acts of violence are reported, strikers hurling blue metal when volunteers were leaving the Nestor, a fierce fight ensuing. The volunteers however, stood their ground, only one of their number being seriously injured and sent to hospital.—Australian Press Association.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10959, 6 October 1928, Page 6
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91VOLUNTEERS ATTACKED Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10959, 6 October 1928, Page 6
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