Violent End To Congress
(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Violent incidents marked the last day of the biennial congress of the Australian Council of Trade Unions in Melbourne.
Mr E. Thornton and Mr L. J. McPhillips were arrested after an alleged assault on a Sydney Daily Telegraph reporter.
A Press photographer’s camera was taken from him, opened, and the exposed films ruined. Other Pressmen were threatened and hustled into a corridor.
Mr Robert Carroll, a 25-year-old exprisoner of war, who at the meeting of the congress on Thursday, attacked the Indonesians, said today that a group of men had threatened him. The police are guarding Mr Carroll. Thornton and McPhillips are two leading Communist delegates. They are national secretary and assistant secretary respectively of the IronWorkers’ Union.
Detectives arrested them and charged them with assaulting a Daily Telegraph reporter, W. Moore. Mr Moore alleged that Thornton and McPhillips assaulted him in the Pressroom at the assembly hall. Thornton and McPhillips have been released on bail to appear in court on Wednesday. A Melbourne Argus photographer, after taking a group of photographs of delegates, was followed out of the hall by several delegates who took the camera from him and removed the film.
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Northern Advocate, 6 September 1947, Page 6
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