Item 15: Archie Barwick diary, 1 October-14 December 1918 - Page 88
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16th. There was a bit of fun as Ross Braithwaite & I were going into town by the tram, we had got down as far as the Dockyard Gates & the tram was full, there were a lot of Tars & dock yard workers waiting & a number rushed the tram. The conductor although the tram was full allowed a dock yardie as they are called to get aboard & tried to throw a sailor off, who was carrying a big bag of mails into town. This act enraged the remaining Tars & quite rightly too & one Tar came forward to aid, that no matter what happened they would stick to their mate & see that he never got off while the dock yardie was on. He then started to call the dock yardie all the curs he could think off & how they were hiding behind womens clothes & they were too big a skunks to come fight, but wangled their exemption certificates & got work in the yard & wormed their way into all the good jobs while