SYDNEY HUNGER STRIKER.
DEMAND F R HIS RELEASE. CROWDS HOLD UP TRAFFIC. (Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. A meeting several thousand strong held up traffic in the centre of the city j last night as a protest against the detention of Freeman, the deportee who has thrice travelled between Australia and America, being refused permission to land at either end, and who began a hunger strike with a view to compelling the authorities to permit him to land. Senator Russell announced to-day that Freeman was a disloyal and dangerous I.W.YV. agitator, born in America of fterman parents. He would be deported at opportunity. A huge crowd headed by a band marched from the Trades Hall to the wharf to protest against the detention of I Freeman. At one time it looked as if the ship would be boarded and the prisoner released, but it was decided to call a strike of wharf labourers and hold up the vessel until Freeman is liberated. The shin's surgeon states that he is now in n dying conditoin as a result of the hunger strike.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 131, 3 June 1919, Page 5
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