DECLARED BLACK
THREAT TO FARMERS
STARVATION AN ISSUE
QUEENSLAND STRIKE
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 25th July, 1 p.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. The Innisfail Trades and Labour Council has declared black the South Johnstone Mill, and the farmers are threatened with being cut off from all food supplies.
A meeting of farmers decided to accept this challenge, and to keep the mill working up to the limit of their resources.
Serious developments arc expected, and additional polico are being drafted to South Johnstone.
Another disgraceful sceue occurred near the mill, when a mob of strikers stopped a cane train, and began to pull cane from tho trucks, while they toppled others over. A body of police arrived and under their escort tho locomotive and six trucks reached the mill safely.
The remaining nineteen trucks, which had been completely emptied, were placed on tho line by the farmers and taken to the mill.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 21, 25 July 1927, Page 9
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