THE SYDNEY STRIKE.
NON-UNIONISTS^ASSAULTED. '
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph:— Copyright.) "SYDNEY, May 1. : A -sensational development has. occurred in the coaling trouble. \ The coaling oi the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer -Jn-inz . Sigismund withnon-.umonists was to have commenced this -afternoon. Several hundred strikers, and; others collected in the vicinity,' of the company's wharf at* Circular Quay,.;and when the "non-unionists . 'marched down without police escort- the crowd set^Upon and brutally assaulted them,, about', 22 being more or less l;in-- ,• ■ .jured."" A v strpugf; force ) of police arriVed --'"and restored order, but hot before several ,_,_of theij?,lfrere.roiighjy. liandled. 'Six arrests njadei ,--. There; was -much exJ. citem'ent. - Thousands" congregated at. the .. -wharf .and 'Vfatched the ' later^ stages of the disturbance. .. ■_■''"'
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10961, 2 May 1907, Page 3
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114THE SYDNEY STRIKE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10961, 2 May 1907, Page 3
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