MOB RULE IN ADELAIDE
WHARF LABOURERS STONED
United Press Assn—By Electrio telegraph—Copyright. ADELAIDE, August 27. A crowd of two hundred stpn’ed wharf labourers at Port Adelaide to-day. One of the assaulted men was thrown into the river. Another had seven stitches inserted in a scalp wound, A constable also was thrown mlto the river.
c . • , , Later. Sei lous disturbances occurred at P ’J; 1 e nJ I le to-day when upwards or (00 unemployed waterside workers and sympathisers, also women attempted to molest volunteer workers on the waterfront. The latter were stoned and jeered at and one was thrown into the water but was rescued. ‘ - • /.
The police charged with batons, but bad great difficulty in dispersiiur the rioters who spread over a laree area and keipt returning,
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11535, 28 August 1930, Page 6
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127MOB RULE IN ADELAIDE Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11535, 28 August 1930, Page 6
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