ROYALTY MOCKED

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 18 June 1929, Page 9

ROYALTY MOCKED

BY SYDNEY COMMUNISTS

AMAZING SCENES

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY,' 6th June. ' There were amazing scenes at the Sydney Trades Hair on the night of the King's Birthday, when/an insolent burlesque of the Boyal Family and an antiBoyalty play were features of a display staged by the Communists Loyal subjects are gratified that the Communists are such a tiny section of the community.. As it was many loyal workers, who "were in the building, protested against the insulting behaviour, and they were summarily ejected from the Jiall. The demonstration continued in the street afterwards, and a number of men, believed to be ■. timber men on strike, threw stones through the windew of the hall in an endeavour to make their protest more effective. There might have been bloodshed had not the police arrived on the scene. The hall was crowded with foreigners of both sexes—Eussians, Japanese, Chinese, Jugoslavs, Germans, and the representatives;of many other nations who have evidently coma to Australia to stir up trouble. It is said that many of them do no real work, so there is some excuse for believing that they are maintained by Bolshevik money To the credit of Australians let it be said that there were few Australians present at this most remarkable of entertainments." There were some, however, who sat it through, and "even joined in the fun, as they seemed to regard it. The play was carried through amid loud applause, the foreigners grinning m a typically foreign way. The master of ceremonies was Mr J Kayanagh, president of the, Trades Union .Disputes - Committee, which is conducting the strike of the timber workers. He is a well-known ComJS™ SV<? d he had as his assistant another of the same ilk, one Mr. M. Ryan Tra°d e ai S°K^r PieS'* Pr. o2nin™* P^ce in •trades Kail organisation. The occasion was a bazaar to raise money for the Communist paper, and advantage h,,i' 6 eqllally orea-