AUSTRALIAN HOLD-UP
WALSH FINED FOR ENCOURAGING
SOVIET OPENLY ADVOCATED
MELBOURNE, 19th July. Walsh, the secretary of the Seamen's Union, has been fined £100 for encouraging the continuance of the strike. In the course of a statement Walsh declared : "Now that peace has been secured, and Austria and Germany admitted partners of the League of Nations, no reasonable excuse can be offered why we should not receive financial assistance from Germany in the shape of gold." Walsh made an inflammatory speech, in the course of which he openly advocated a Soviet Government, and urged the seamen to do everything in their power to throw tho city in darkness, and make it impossible for the civil authorities to do without the Seamen's Union. He declared it was the seamen's duty to bring the hour as close as possible when it would be unsafe for people to walk out after 7 o'clock at night. If the present conditions continued a revolution would result.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 17, 21 July 1919, Page 7
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160AUSTRALIAN HOLD-UP Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 17, 21 July 1919, Page 7
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