RIVAL LUMPERS' UNIONS
«—. FRACAS ON A SYDNEY WHARF. (Roc. November 5, 9.50 p.m.) Sydney, November 15 |. Another fracas., occurred bohveeii the' opposing wharf . labourers' unions. A posse of loyalists when entering Birt's Wharf were 'attacked.' A general meleo followed, and revolvers were "brandished on both sides, but were not,, used. . One loyalist was sent to hospital. The police arrived when tho balitle was'over.—Press Assn. '[A message from Sydney published yesterday stated that tlie bad feeling which since the 1917 strike has existed between tihe Sydney coal lumpers, and the Port Jackson coal lumpers culminated in several' fights, in which a number were injured. The former union was the original 'body which was deregistcred as' tho result of the strike, and the Tort .Tackeon Union embraces returned soldiers and loyalists who worked during the strike. These latter claim that vhe trouble was tho outcome of a scheme ,to displace tho loyalists.]
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 36, 6 November 1920, Page 7
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150RIVAL LUMPERS' UNIONS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 36, 6 November 1920, Page 7
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