NEW GUARDS CHARGE.
UNEMPLOYED’S MEETING RROKEN UP
REINFORCED POLICE USE BATONS
(Bv Telegraph-Dress Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) v SYDNEY, Feb. 27. There were Wild scenes at Bankstown when a detachment of the New Guard ’dashed with Communists. The trouble started when New Guardsmen broke up a meeting of the Unemployed Workers’ Movement at which revolutionary statements were being made. Hundreds of townspeople joined in wild melees, which soon became too much for the local police to Control. Reinforcements arrived, and'the fighting was quelled after repeated baton charges. Four arrests were made. Many people /were injured by stones, stakes, flying glass and batons.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 February 1932, Page 5
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