THE RED FLAG DROWNED
HYMN. AT MINER’S MEMORIAL . - FIVE .THOUSAND IN PILGRIMAGE ROTHBURY RIOT VICTIM’S GRAVE St T«l»*rtph—Tr*M Awn.—Cd»yrirtt. Rec. 8.5 p.m. Sydney, Dec. 16. Five thousand- coal-miners at Newcastle to-day made a pilgrimage to the grave of Norman Brown, victim of police . --shooting , during tho Rothbury riots I*2 -months ago. erected by th'e miners was dedicated, after which tho ininers’ presi-'-'dent iiivited. tho crowd to sing “Tho Red • Flag.” A number of Women dressed in black protested And. began singing > ;!‘Ncar<DV?My God, .toSChee ” causing a discord which 'finally drowned “The Red ■r FlOg.” : . " The president apologetically announced he wtfuld not have called for “The Red Fiig’* had ho -anticipated a clash.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1930, Page 9
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