SERIOUS TROUBLE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 190, 7 May 1919, Page 7

SERIOUS TROUBLE

THE WHARF RIOTS AT I'REMANTLE

ATTACKS ON VOLUNTEER WORKERS >i RETURNED SOLDIERS SIDE WITH STRIKERS By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright . • , ;; -.Fremantle, May. G. There has been further rioting on the wharves. " "When 'several volunteer workers Mvere leaving,'a'crowd of strikers and women attacked and severely dealt witli them. Later in tho day a largo' forco Of returned' soldiers'inarched 1 through-the-streets and requested shop, keepers not to.servo tho poUcevwith provisions.. -Towards evening a ..policeman was attacked by returned soldiers and badly injured. Other "police" cable to his assistance, and after firing Heyoifll 6hots. drove" the rioters off. A number of the polioc were' injured. Reports received later indicate that the soldiers are or< ganisinij an attack on the police: station. A meeting of railway workers: decided to I support the lumpers in every wav.—Press 1 Assn. ~ ■ TROUBLE MAY SPREAD. Sydney,'. May 6. Tho secretary of the Transport Workers' Federation states that unless a settlement of the Fremantle dispute is arranged that which tho federhtibn-is most anxious to avoid will be forced upon it. Ho-.feared'that if .'asettlement is not arrived at the trouble will assume an international aspect, as the federation is in constant communication with , the' transport workers of ' Great Britain.—Press Aesn. CALM RESTORED. '.' -. ' (Rec. May G, 10.10 p.m.) ' Fremantle, May 6. A? the result, of a conference between tile men's representatives and the Government, it is hoped that the wharf trouble will be settled immediately. The j withdrawal of the police had a calming-effect. A meeting of two sections of, returned soldiers ended in free fights, one section siding with' the lumpers and the other, with the force'-of law. and'.'cirdef:—Frees Assn. -