ROYALTY MOCKED.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19646, 15 June 1929, Page 16

ROYALTY MOCKED.

BY SYDNEY COMMUNISTS

AMAZING SCENES. >s;* ots own ooa£»srcyrrs:T.; SYDNEY. Jju" 6. There fre»e many amazing seenai at the Sydney Trades Hal! on the night of the King' 3 Birthday, when an insolent, burlesque of the Boyal family and an anti-Royalir play were features of a display staged by the Communists. I.oval subjects are gratify that the Communists .if.-- such a tin;-- section or the fommuiiity. As it was. many Joya! workers «lio in the building oretested against the insulting behaviour. End they were summarily ejected from the hall. The demonstration continued in the street afterwards, ftnd a numier of men. believed t.i be timber men on strike, threw stones through the window of the hall in : ; -e endeavour to i:.:ike. their protest wore effective. There might have been bloodshed had not the police arrived on the scene. The hall was crowded with foreigners of both aesos —Russians, Japanese, Chinese. Yngo-Slavs. Germans, find the representatives of many other nations who have evidently come to Australia to stir up trouble. It is said that many of them do no real work, so there is some exeuse for believing that they are maintained by Bolshevik money. There were few Australians present at this most remarkable of " entertainments." There were come, however, v.'ho sat it

through, and even joined in the fun. as they seemed to regard it. The play was carried through amid loud applause. The master of ceremonies was Mr J, Kavanagh, president of the Trades Union Disputes CVmmittee, which is conducting the strike of the timber workers, lie is a well-known Communi.-t, and he had as his assistant Mr "U. JRyan, who also occupies a prominent place in Trades Hall organisation. The occasion was a bazaar to raise money for the Communist paper, and advantage was taken of the King's Birthday to advaucc tctiRoyalist propaganda. A particularly dishevelled and uncomely person derisively impersonated the King, while equally unattractive creatures represented her Majesty the (jueen, the Prince of "Wales. ;.nd the Puke and Duchess of York. For n. penny a shot one was able to "bash" the Prime Minister, Judge Lukin (who made the award which caused the timber strike"), or Mr Duggan (of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, who has earned the displeasure of the Communists because he supported the Peace in Industry Conference),

"Niggers and aliens houting the g-jod things that are British," was the way it was put by one of the men who was ejected after he had lodged z. protest. "We may be strikers, but we are Labour men and not Communists. We are not going to allow the King to be insulted by a lot cf forei^nere."