FREE WORKERS BEATEN
BRUTAL SYDNEY AFFRAY FISTS, BOOTS AND BOTTLES SYDNEY, Tuesday. A number of volunteer seamen- from the vessel Mildura were drinking in a hotel bar near the wharves to-night when they were set upon by a mob of men alleged to be associated with the Seamen’s Union. Three of the volunteers received brutal handling, fists, boots and bottles being used against them. Two were rendered insensible, their faces were cut and their eyes were blackened. They had to be . treated in hospital. The police arrived too late to arrest the assailants. A great crowd of people witnessed the affair, which is the first of its kind to occur at Sydney as a result of the waterfront trouble.
THREATS IN SYDNEY
Reed. Noon. SYDNEY, To-day. Mr. Tom Walsh stated that threats of violence had been made against his supporters by followers of Jacob Johnson in the Seamen’s Union. Several of his supporters had been accosted on the way home.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 529, 5 December 1928, Page 11
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160FREE WORKERS BEATEN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 529, 5 December 1928, Page 11
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