LULL ON COALFIELDS
POLICE ORGANISATION FOOD ORDERS CANCELLED SYDNEY, 16th January. The shock tactics of 'the police on the coalfields yesterday had the effect of producing a lull in activities there to-day, but the police are taking no chances. Additional motor vehicles for use by the police have been sent to the coalfields, and more are being shipped from Sydney to Newcastle this week. The question of using radio -is now under the consideration of the authorities, who believe that transmission sets at strategic points would strengthen their organisation.
Gone for the time being is the miners' defence corps, nor is it possible to discover large bodies of idle miners in any, of the principal coalfields streets, where .hitherto their massing and speech-making were daily occurrences. The police think the miners may now turn their attention to Rothbury, where the defences and flood lighting, are most elaborate. ' '..'' "' Two hundred miners received a rude shock to-day when they learned that their food orders had been' cancelled. At Kiirri some, protested, arguing that they took no part in lawless demonstrations. Their protestations were of-, no avail.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 14, 17 January 1930, Page 9
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184LULL ON COALFIELDS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 14, 17 January 1930, Page 9
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