CANEFIELDS STRIKE.
AN UGLY SITUATION.
(by cable—press association—copyright), (australian and n.z. cable association.} BRISBANE, July 25. The Innisfail Trades and La-bom Council has declared ''black" the South Johnstone Mill and the farmers, and has threatened to cut off all food supplies. A meeting of farmers decided to accept this challenge and to keep tne mill working to the limit of their resources. , , Serious developments are expected and additional police are being dratted to South Johnstone- . Another disgraceful scene occurred near the mill, when a mob of strikers stopped a cane train and began to pull the cane from the trucks, while they toppled others over. A body of police arrived and under their escort the locomotive and six trucks reached the mill safely. iho remaining nineteen trucks, which had been completely emptied, were placed on the line by the farmers and taken to the mill.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19062, 26 July 1927, Page 9
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