FREEMANTLE WHARF STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1919, Page 5

FREEMANTLE WHARF STRIKE.

FURTHER RIOTING ON WHARVES. THREATS OF A WORLD STRIKE, Fremantle, May 0. Furtlicr rioting occurred on the wharves when several volunteers were leaving. A crowd of strikers and women attacked them and dealt with them severely. Later in the day a large force of returned soldiers marched through the streets and requested shopkeepers not to serve the police with provisions. Towards evening a policeman was attacked by returned soldiers and badly injured. Other police came to his assistance and, after firing several shots, drove the rioters off. A number of police were injured. A report was received later that the soldiers were organising an attack on the police station, and the railway workers decided to support the lumpers in every way.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. As the result of the conference between the men's representatives and the Government, it is hoped that the wharf trouble will be settled immediately. The withdrawal of the police had a calming effect. A meeting of two sections of returned soldiers ended in free fights, one section siding with the lumpers and the other with law and order. i Sydney, May 0. The secretary of the Transport Workers' Federation states that, unless a settlement of the Fremantle dispute is arranged, that which the federation is most anxious to avoid will be forced upon it. It is feared that if a settlement is not arrived at the trouble will assume an international aspect, as the federation is in constant communication with transport, workers in Great Britain. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.