SHOTS ON WHARF.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1928, Page 7

SHOTS ON WHARF.

STRIKE ASSAULTS. Violence Used To Volunteers At Melbourne. WATERSIDERS’ UNION FINED. (Received 12 noon.) MELBOURNE, this day. A second attack was made on Saturday afternoon on the free labourers at the wharves. Ono man was shot through one cheek and another had his skull fractured. A taxi driver had his jaw broken.

Nino overseas vessels are now being worked nt Melbourne. Arrangements ha ve been made for volunteer workers to sleep on the wharves.

There were disorderly scenes at the Brisbane wharves during the week-end. Stones were thrown and two volunteers were injured. About (500 volunteers have enrolled and thirteen steamers are being worked. The local unionists have formed their own strike executive and have, taken the dispute out of the hands of their officials. At Sydney the waterside workers are unloading the cargo from the liner Cathay, in spite of the fact that the ship was declared “black” at Fremantle and Adela ide.

The Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia was on Saturday fined the maximum of £lOOO for an offence against tho Commonwealth Arbitration Act. This was that on September 10 it ordered, encouraged, advised and incited its members to refuse to accept employment on the steamer Karoola. The magistrate said it was clear from the evidence that John Cadden, an officer of the federation, had advised members to refuse to work, and they did ■o.

Counsel for tho federation urged that the penalty should be limited to Cadden, at whom this particular charge aimed. Since September 10 a great profortion of the members of the federaion had carried on their usual- work.

Counsel for the Crown replied that it was part of the settled policy of the federation, in defiance of the law, to create and to maintain throughout Australia the present state of affairs.

A stay of proceedings was granted for 14 days.

At Canberra the House of Representatives passed the Transport Bill by 29 votes to 12 after an all-night sitting and a bitter debate, which had lasted nearly 19 hours. The session has now closed.