TOM WALSH
RESIGNATION D.KII AXDKD. (Australian Press Association). (United Service). SYDXTIY, November 2. Nine members of tlie Seamen s Union who claimed to represent eight hundred, tramped into the Seamen s Union office to-day and called upon Air Tom Walsh to relinquish the Gen-eral-Secretaryship. Two detectives s;jt between Walsh and the deputation while a posse of uniformed police lined the stairs leading to the office. Tom Walsh, with all his old lighting spirit, flatly refused to relinquish office and said he would do nothing oi the kind. Some vitriolic remarks were hurled all round in which charges were made of interfering with the rules. Tom Walsh, pounding the table, shot back: “ Look here ! A certain section of the Seamen’s Union has committed the greatest outrage in history in the manipulation of those rules.” The deputation talked themselves to a standstill and then left, uttering all kinds of threats. The Chief Secretary. Hon. Air Bruntnell, stated to-dav that he had instructed the police to adopt sterner measures 'for the suppression of all forms of lawlessness, his comment arising out of the threat against Tom Walsh and disturbances at election meetings, •
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1928, Page 5
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189TOM WALSH Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1928, Page 5
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