MINISTER HECKLED
ROWDY SYDNEY MEETING NATIONALISING OF BANKS SYDNEY, Oct. 4. Uproar many times interrupted a public meeting in a . city hall last .night when the Labour Parly launched ®its campaign to support the nationalisation of the trading banks. Continuous cheering and booing drowned the speakers’ voices. Police moved among the people at the meeting, during which police, fire, and ambulance headquarters received bogus calls to go to the hall. Three ambulances arrived while young men in the body of the hall and in the gallery were heckling the ' principal speaker, the Minister for Post-war Reconstruction, Mr J. J. Dedman. Later two fire brigades and a squad of police on motor cycles arrived. The police, several times spoke to the demonstrators. At one stage a score of people were leaping over chairs trying to reach a persistent interjector who sat tight in his seat and resisted all efforts al removal. ' In his speech Mr Dedman claimed that many thousands of people who did not vote Labour would support the -■ Government in the nationalisation of the banks.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26584, 6 October 1947, Page 5
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176MINISTER HECKLED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26584, 6 October 1947, Page 5
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