GET BACK TO RUSSIA
DOCKERS' ADVICE TO COMMUNISTS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 5. (Received January 6, at 11.30 a.m.) The Thames-side dockers unmistakably showed at lunch time that they do not intend to be dragged by the heels by the striking lightermen. Three Communists mounted a box in the Surrey docks and taunted 500 dockers with playing into tho bosses’ hands, and urged them to join the strike. “That’s our .affair. You get hack to Russia,” were tho answering sallies, after which tiny paper bags filled with red, white, and blue powder came from all directions and bespattered the Communists who made a hasty retreat, amid a chorus of three cheers for the “red, white, and blue.” The police had to escort the Communists to a tramcar.
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Evening Star, Issue 20993, 6 January 1932, Page 7
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