SYDNEY TRADES HALL
FIERCEST BRAWL FOR YEARS, ,/ 4 • SEVERAL PEOPLE INJURED. COMMUNISTS GAIN CONTROL / (United Press Association.)
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
_ . SYDNEY, November 28. Using cliaira, table, lege, and flets Communist Party supporters attacked Labour Council delegatee in one of the fiercest brawls seen at the Tradee Hall for many years. More than a down people were injured, including Mr R. the Labour Council vrho was hit with a chair while trying, to defend Mr J. S. Garden. The furniture was smashed to pieces and a door was wrenched from its hinges. ' The were unable to,gain admittance until someoqe inside took down one.of the doors and admited them. The fighting then subsided, but the Communists were in control and celebrated by singing the “Red Flag.” No information was laid’ and no arrests were made. Delegates who tried to. defend the, Government, principally Mr Garden, were early howled down by the packed gallery.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21196, 29 November 1930, Page 13
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