VOLUNTEERS BATTERED

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 70, 2 November 1928, Page 5

VOLUNTEERS BATTERED

SERIOUS CLASH IN MELBOURNE MAN THROWN IN SEA AND STONED. MELBOURNE, November 1. • The worst clash arising cut of the waterside strike to-dhy between unionists and volunteers Seven volunteers, travelling in a train to Port Melbourne, were, battered all the way from the city to the waterside, a distance of four miles. One of them was thrown into the sea. and htones were thrown at him in the water. Six more were pushed into a pit alongside the Port Melbourne station despite the warning that another train was dtue. The attackers canned cudgels concealed in newspapers nr.redi man wins res-, cued from the sea more dead than alive, while volunteers on the pier had to he restrained from mjaking a counter attack. The police state the first attack on, the volunteers occurred when the men were about to enter the train for i Port Melbourne. They were hopelessly out-numbered, were knocked down, kicked, and were just able to struggle into the train where the attacks wore tontinued. Isolated fights occurred on the Port Melbourne wharves for two hours, when mounted troopers arrived and dispersed the rioters who had grown to la thousand. Dreadful language was used the whole time.