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COMMUNISTS CAUSE TROUBLE “THE RED FLAG’’ SUNG. DESPITE CLERGYMAN’S ORDERS. (United Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2.45 p.m., to-day. SYDNEY, Nov. 18. ’ Mrs. Una. Speedkey, a prominent member of the minefields Communist group was'killed'in a bus accident on Saturday, aim'd when, she was being bu,ried at Gessnock yesterday an extraordinary scene occurred. The burial was conducted by an Anglican clergyman at the request of deceased’s parents, and a,t its conc/nision a Communist raised the Red Flag over the grave and the leader, called the others' to sing the revolutionary’ song, “Tli© Red Flag.” Women relatives screamed: ‘ ‘Dont let them do it-,” and collapsed on the graveside. The clergyman ordered the -Communists to desist, but they proceeded, encircling the grave and singing ‘‘The Red Flag.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 18 November 1929, Page 11
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128SCENE AT FUNERAL Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 18 November 1929, Page 11
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