N.S.W. UNEMPLOYED

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 May 1931, Page 5

N.S.W. UNEMPLOYED

CLASH WITH POLICE. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, May 11. The police at Bulli, a picturesque coal mining township on the South Coast, were involved in a. desperate affray with a large crowd of unemployed miners and others, who had declared the Government rations “black.” The reason for this has not been explained. The trouble began in the forenoon to-day, when about five hundred men tried to prevent their hungry comrades and their wives from collecting any food orders at the local Miners’ Hall. The police attempted to disperse a mob of jeering men, and they finally were compelled to arrest the ringleader. Thereupon the remainder closed in, and they began an attack on the policemen with pieces of wood and also of gas pipe. The police drew their revolvers to protect themselves. They lodged the arrested man in the lock-up. Then they scoured the neighbourhood and arrested tea others. Three of the constables were treated severely, and are suffering from head wounds, aim they are convinced that they were lucky to escape with their lives. COMMUNISTS SENTENCED. SYDNEY, May 11. Following on the organised disturbance by .Communists and others and an attack upon the police on the night of April 27 last outside the Sydney Town Hall, four men were to-day sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from three to six months. Three others were‘fined heavily.