SUSPICIOUS FIRE
DAMAGE OF £70,000 AT MILL JOLT FOR EXTREMISTS Reed. 11 a.m. MELBOURNE, Today. Detectives are investigating the origin of a fire which did damage of about £70,000 to the timber mill of J. Porta and Sons at Fairfield yesterday morning. The mill had previously been declared black. Shortly before the fire ‘-was discovered, dull explosions were lizard inside the building. A man w*as seen leaving the rear of the premises. The extremists controlling the timber' strike at Sydney received a severe rebuff when the engineers engaged in the various yards refused to cease work, because the mills are fully staffed with volunteers and loyalists. The engineers hold the key position in the industry.’ A volunteer timber worker, Clarence Morrissey, was viciously assaulted by strikers or their sympathisers at Bankstown. Plis condition is serious.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 667, 20 May 1929, Page 9
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