MELBOURNE POLICE USE BATONS TO SHIFT CROWD.
One Thousand Unemployed Take Fence Pickets as Weapons.
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegrapn.—Copyright.) (Received August 13, 9.5 a.in.) MELBOURNE, August 13. Baton charges by thirty policemen dispersed a crowd of about 1000 unemployed who assembled at a Fitzroy house and threatened to cause trouble over the eviction of a family for non-payment of rent.
The unemployed tore pickets from fences and were about to attack a police sergeant and a bailiff when the police cars arrived.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 191, 13 August 1931, Page 1
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