MORE WILD RIOTING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 133, 26 August 1927, Page 9

MORE WILD RIOTING

HAMBURG CROWDS AMOK A POLICEMAN KILLED SACCO-VANZETTI SYMPATHISERS By Cable.—press Association.—Copyright Reed. 11.50 a.m. BERLIN, Thursday. At Hamburg, Communist SaccoVanzetti demonstrators barricaded the streets and attacked the police, flinging stones and bottles. They dragged out a policeman off duty, who was travelling in a tramcar and brutally 111-treated him. The policeman endeavoured to escape, but was collared after running a few yards, recaptured, and bludgeoned and stabbed to death. Police rushing to the rescue received a hail of stones, and retaliated with revolver shots. Order was restored after several hours’ fighting. Several police and numerous onlookers were injured, and there were many arrests.—A-. and N.Z. BIG STRIKE MAY RESULT IN SYDNEY THREATS BY UNIONS DISMISSAL OF WORKERS By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright Reed. 11.15 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. G A hitch has occurred in the settlement of the harbour bridge dispute, resulting from workers absenting themselves from work to attend SaccoVanzetti demonstrations, the men rejecting the terms. The strike continues therefore. The crane drivers at the Moruya quarries have effected a settlement of their dispute, and will resume work on Monday. The terms of settlement of the dispute in the city railway have to be ratified by the men, who meet this morning for the purpose. The terms include that the men resume work to-day; that there is to be no discrimination in re-engage-ment, the men to be employed on their former jobs. The Industrial Commissioner held that the men, by absenting themselves, legally put themselves out of employment. The stumbling-block to a settlement may be the question of payment for days lost. A mass meeting of members of the Australian Workers’ Union and other unions affected by the dismissal of the railways workers was held to-day. It was decided that if the lock-out is not immediately settled on terms satisfactory to the men all the members of the Australian Workers’ Union and other unionists —comprising engine-drivers and firemen, carpenters, builders labourers and bricklayers employed on the railway and on private works—-will cease work to-morrow. The employees who will be affected if this threat is carried out total 6,000. All the employees at the. Bunnerong nower-house, who were locked out yesterday, resumed work at noon to-day. A. and N.Z. TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT PARIS RIOTERS TRIED Reed. 10.40 a.m. PARIS, Thursday. It is estimated that the damage from the Sacco riots is 10,000,000 francs, of which the Government is paying 60 per cent, and the municipality 40 per cent. Many of the rioters were tried and sentenced to-day. The periods of imprisonment varied from one month to 10 months. . „ „ The National Union of Lx-Service-men announces that it does not desire to express an opinion about the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, but says that if any of its members are Communists, it appeals to them to worthily receive the members of the American Legion on their forthcoming visit to Paris. It bids them remember the services rendered by the Americans to the Allied cause in the war. It also urges the Government to preserve order during the visit of the legionaries. —A. and N.Z. THREATS IN SHANGHAI COMMUNISTS ARRESTED Reed. 10.41 a.m. SHANGHAI, Thurs. A cordon of American marines re-, inforced by municipal police encircled the American Consulate at Shanghai, following the issue of a circular, stating that the Anarchist Youth Society of China and Korea would destroy the building as a protest against the execution of Sacco and 1 anzetti. The busiest section of the city was flooded With handbills, which were thrown from the roofs of buildings, protesting against the executions. There are many arrests of Communists. —A. and N.Z.