FOLUNTEERS ATTACKED BY WATERSIDERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 7

FOLUNTEERS ATTACKED BY WATERSIDERS

VIOLENT SCENES AT PORT MELBOURNE Telegraph—Per Press Assn. —Copyright ] (Australian Press Assn. ’ deceived Nov. 1, 8 p.m. MELBOURNE, Nov. 1. The worst clash so far arising out of the strike occurred to-day, iJOtween unionists and volunteers. Seven volunteers, travelling in a train to Port Melbourne, were battered all the way from the city to the wateraide, a distance of four miles. One was thrown into tho sea and stones 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 due. The attackers carried waddies concealed in newspapers. The man was rescued from the sea more dead than alive, and volunteers on the pier had to be restrained from making a counter attack. The police state that the first attack on the volunteers occurred when the mtn were about to enr.-r the train. They were hopelessly outnumnered and were knocked down and Kicked, an 1 were just able to struggle into the train, where the attacks continued. Isolated fights occurred on the Port Melbourne wharves for two hours, until mounted troopers arrived and dispersed the rioters, who had grown to 1000 Shocking language was used the whole time.