MELBOURNE TROUBLE
SE-RIOUS DEVELOPMENTS
CROWDS BECOME UNRULY.
(DSIIED PRSBS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)
(Received 3rd November, 11.30 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, This Day
Dramatic, developments followed the refußUal of the day police to commence their duties. Police were hurriedly conveyed into the city from the country centres, but on arrival at headquarters they joined the strikers, and were discharged.
Unruly crowds blocked the principal thoroughfares at night, with the everpresent tendency towards hooliganism. A detachment of loyal'police was hemmed in at the sub-depot at the Town Hair by a crowd of nine hundred, but cleared a passage by playing a fire hose on the crowd. ....
A detachment of forty police paraded in Swa'nston street with b'atbns drawn to keep the crowds in.order.
. The strikers refused the request, of the Victorian Racing Club, that a squad of police should be permitted to go to Fleinington to regulate the traffic.
The strikers adopted a resolution in condemnation of the system of espionage by plain-clothes inspectors, and state that in view of repeated requests for its abolition, they regretted the necessity for their present. action. ■ The strikers are prepared to resume duty provided there is no victimisation and fair consideration is given to their grievances.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 108, 3 November 1923, Page 7
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197MELBOURNE TROUBLE Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 108, 3 November 1923, Page 7
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