LABOUR CHIEFS’ ARREST
SYDNEY POLICE ACTION STIRS V UNIONS MOB VIOLENCE SEQUEL SYDNEY, Monday; As a sequel to the mass picketing disorders outside Hudson’s timber yards at Globe on Saturday the police this evening raided the Trades Hall, Sydney. They arrested Jock Garden, secretary of the Trades and Labour Council; J. Culbert. M.L.C., secretary of the Timber Workers‘ Union: \V. Terry, organiser of the union; C. Reeves and M. P. Ryan, members of the Disputes Committee; and W. Paton, of the I’ronworkers’ Union. All the men were charged with conspiracy and admitted to hail of £l5O each. The arrests have caused a. stir in industrial circles. Stones were thrown at a party of policemen by striking timbermen on Saturday at a mass plcketing demonstration outside Hudson‘s timber yards at Glebe. Volunteer workers were leaving the yards with more than 200 policemen in attendance as escorts, when 2,000 strike pickets, urged on by women, attempted to isolate the volunteers. Four men were arrested in the. course of the demonstration. One ("Unstable was injured by a. missile. }lis comrades succeeded in keeping the strikers back while the workers reached the trams. Women spat at the police and volunteers and shouted abuse as they passed. After singing revolutionary songs the strikers dispersed.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290723.2.92
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 722, 23 July 1929, Page 9
Word Count
209LABOUR CHIEFS’ ARREST Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 722, 23 July 1929, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in