DEMAND FOR RELEASE OF HUNGER-STRIKERS
(Rec. 6.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 29. More than 2000 men and women sympathizers marched through the city with banners denouncing the Government and demanding the release of Thomas Ratliff and Max Thomas, the hunger-strikers. Labour Council officials and union secretaries addressed a large gathering on the Domain, condemning the Prime Minister, Mr R. G. Menzies, and the alleged attempt to introduce Fascism and Hitlerism in this countiy. Mr J. Sweeney, who acted as solicitor for the two hunger-strikers in their recent appeal, declared that the Government’s action savoured of a desperate attempt to introduce concentration camps in Australia. Reports from the south coast disclose that only coal miners and waterside workers, totalling about 4000, took part in the local demonstration. The position at Newcastle was even less unanimous, a street procession having to be abandoned for lack of support.
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Southland Times, Issue 24500, 30 July 1941, Page 5
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