POLICE STRIKE
SCENES IN MELBOURNE. - CROWDS TAKE' ADVANTAGE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) O MELBOURNE, November 3. Dramatic developments followed the refusal of the day police to commence duties. Police were hurriedly conveyed from country centres, but on arrival at headquarters joined the strikers and were discharged. Unruly crowds blocked the principal thoroughfares at night, with an everpresent tendency towards hooliganism. A detachment of loyal police were hemmed in at a sub-depot at the Town Hall by a crowd of nine hundred, but they, cleared a nassage by playing a fire hose on mass. A detachment of forty police paraded Swanston Street with batons drawn to keep the crowd in ot*ler. The strikers refused the request of the Victorian Racing Club that a squad of police should be permitted to go to Flemington to regulate the traffic.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 November 1923, Page 5
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