SYDNEY COMMUNISTS.
OVER 20 ARRESTS.
UGLY SITUATION ARISES. United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY. March 11. Ihe disoj-d tli.i.-Ns which has marked meetings of Communist and other radical organisations in the Domain during past weeks was repeated today, and resulted in over 2<l arrests including, some women. A march had been conten plated from the Central Railway Station to the Domain, but the police declined to permit- this. As tile afternoon wore on crowds became thick at the Communist. stand. where several speakers held forth When a. man started to try to, literature and was warned by. the police, trouble began, and for a time it looked as if a serious r iot might easily develop. People Hocked from other stands, and, in the excitement, the police had a difficult task to get their prisoners away and prevent the crowd becoming out of hand. Fortunately the hardest things bandied about were words, which did no harm. The speakers resented the ban on the sale of their literature and denounced the police authorities roundly as Fascist monsters and enemies of the working class and proletariat-.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12595, 12 March 1934, Page 4
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185SYDNEY COMMUNISTS. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12595, 12 March 1934, Page 4
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