HUNT FOR COMMUNISTS
EXCITING- SCENES
NEW GUARD ACTIVE
SYDNEY, Oth December
Since tho raids commenced upon the Communists at Bourke recently, Communists all over the State havo been hunted relentlessly, the police in every instance saving them from tho roughest handling.
There were exciting scenes to-day at "Wollongong, a coal-mining centre, where it was expected tho Communists •would have many sympathisers.
Lawrence Sharkcy, a Cominiini.si Senate candidate, had just began to address an open-air meeting opposite the Soldiers' Memorial Hall when he was dislodged from his stand and sent sprawling to the ground.
Sharkey's Communist friends rushed to his aid armed with pieces of iron pipe and similar weapons, but were unable to use them owing to a sudden onslaught of hundreds of members of tho JSTew Guard and returned soldiers. Tho onslaught was carefully organised and had the Communists on tho run before they wore able to strike a blow.
The police, fearing the Communists would be lynched., arrcstod eight for their own safety.
Members of the Now Guard returned to tho Communists' Hal], sang "Bule Britannia," burned the red flag and a quantity of. Communist literature, aud would have wrecked the building but for police intervention.
HUNT FOR COMMUNISTS
Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 140, 10 December 1931, Page 9
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