STRIKERS’ VIOLENT ACTS

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1928, Page 9

STRIKERS’ VIOLENT ACTS

FREE LABOURERS ATTACKED 600 MEN REFUSE TO WORK MELBOURNE DEVELOPMENT By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copy-lglit. Australian Press Association. Melbourne, Oct. 6. Six hundred seamen, from 14 interstate vessels, struck to-day, refusing to work with volunteers. More than 3000 volunteers have been enrolled on the Melbourne wharves, and 1500 are ingFurther acts of violence are reported, the strikers hurling blue metal when the volunteers were leaving the Nestor. A fierce fight ensued, but the volunteers stood their ground, only one of their number being seriously injured and sent to hospital. “FIRM POLICY SUCCEEDING.” ENGLISH NEWSPAPER’S VIEWS. Received Oct. 7, 7.55 p.m. London, Oct. 6. “News from Australia shows that Mr. Bruce’s policy of firmness is having success,” says the Morning Post. ‘lf the Federal Government had been in the control of the Socialists it is probable that no such firm stand would have been made, and the Australian people would have been left to fight anarchy themselves. “There is an abundance of stout stpff in Australia, as we saw in war time, and the people would doubtless have won through in the end, but the situation would have been incomparably more dangerous.” An editorial emphasises the fact that fhe arbitration award actually precipitated the struggle, and continues: “Machinery between master and man, as between nation and nation, can never take the place cf the knowledge, sympathy and courage which remain in ail the relations of human kind.”