FREE FIGHT
UNION VERSUS CREWS
OVER MANNING OF' VESSEL
(Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY, Dec. 4. A serious dispute .among the seamem employed on steamers owned by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company and used in the trade for the Newcastle Steelworks, culrr hated ; ’ in a free fight at the Newcastle Trades’ Hall to-day. Nearly fifty men engaged. They kicked all£ l •fought one another until their faces were covered in blood and their clo-'f'-q were in ribbons. At one stage there was almost a tragedy when two Snuggling men were fin dapg|r . .of falling over a- balcony. >' Thei conflict occupied about ten minutes, and. it • stooped as suddenly as it; started, I before the police could take a hand. S V*' f j- qqjg dispute arose over the manning of the ore freighters “Iron Master” and “Iron Prince.” The Seamen’s Union wanted additional men put into : the stokehold, and the 'Union threatened to expel the crews if they took the vessels to sea. The crew, however, insisted that tev were manning the vessels in accordance with the rules governing these . ships, and they refused to be coerced into a strike by the militants.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1931, Page 5
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192FREE FIGHT Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1931, Page 5
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