STRIKERS STONE POLICE
AUSTRALIAN TIMBER TROUBLE FOUR MEN ARRESTED Australian Press Association. Sydney, July 22. The police were stoned by timber strikers during a mass picketing demonstration outside Hudson’s timber yards at Glebe. As volunteer worker® were leaving the yards, over two hundred police were in attendance as escorts, and two thousand strike pickets, urged on by women, attempted to isolate the volunteers. Four men were arrested during the demonstration. One constable was injured by a flying missile. The poLce succeeded in keeping the strikers back, while the workers reached the trams. The women spat at the police and volunteers, and shouted abuse as they passed. After singing revolutionary songs, the strikers dispersed.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 253, 22 July 1929, Page 11
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