STRIKERS AND BOMBS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 484, 13 October 1928, Page 9

STRIKERS AND BOMBS

Another Home Blown Up SEAMEN DECIDE TO WORK ON (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) Received Noon. MELBOURNE,.To-day. ANOTHER bomb explosion occurred after midnight at West Brunswick, at the home of Thomas Warne, foreman stevedore, who had just reached home. , Neither Mr. Warne nor his wife was injured, but the house was greatly damaged.

Earlier in the evening a number of strikers had bashed in the doors and smashed the windows of the homes of volunteer workers at West Melbourne. Mr. Warne was attacked because he waa * n charge of a volunteer gang at tlie Victoria docks. The Waterside Workers’ Federation at a mass meeting refused to obey the Central Committee’s instruction to take out licences and to resume work. They will join the mass meeting of seamen on Sunday. The Sydney seamen, after a stormy meeting, decided that they would man all the ships until the Trades Union Council and the watersiders formulated a definite policy. Mr. Jacob Johnson reminded the members of the utter futility of sacrificing themselves on behalf of the wharf labourers, who let them down during the last British seamen’s strike.

A Port Adelaide message says the Seamen’s Union there has agreed to continue working. The departure of the Ulimaroa for Wellington was delayed yesterday owing to the seamen not answering the call for three men. The ship has 283 passengers and a considerable amount of cargo. She was ready to sail at noon, but vacancies in the crew caused her detention. She finally left at 6 p.m. The signing on of crews for the steamers Corio and Makambo was also delayed, although it is anticipated that when the Seamen’s Union meeting has ended there will be no difficulty in filling all the places. Owing to the strike causing postponement of the wool sales, it is estimated that Western Australian pastoralists have alre'ady lost upwards of £50,000, as a result of a decline in values of 15 per cent.