UGLY ELECTION SCENES

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1946, Page 7

UGLY ELECTION SCENES

ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION IN SYDNEY LIBERAL LEADER’S TOUR (Rec. 11.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 18. Another man was arrested after a scuffle with the police during the tour by the leader of the Liberal Party (Mr. R. G. Menzies) of Labour strongholds in Sydney industrial areas. At Fivedock stink-bombs were placed rr'ear the stage and under the windows, but the smell was not unpleasant enough, to clear the hall. Fifty men, whom the Liberal Party said were strangers to the district, arrived in cars. The- man arrested, who was a persistent interjector, struggled violently with the police and smashed the press table. The police confiscated a red flag which was waved in the centre of the hall. Mr. Menzies was accorded a fair hearing. Labour members deplored the hooliganism and intolerance shown at Mr. Menzies’s Darlinghurst meeting on the previous night, when bags of bolts were thrown and the public address system sabotaged. All parties have expressed themselves in favour of free speech as the right of anv candidate. The Liberal Party blames the Communists and not Labour for the disturbance.