DARWIN'S UNEMPLOYED
PREPARING FOR TROUBLE
SPECIAL POLICE CONSCRIPTED
DABWIN, lßt May. The police have conscripted all Government officials as special constable* and armed them withwaddies in order , to resist the activities of turbulent unemployed, and bank officials have been ordered' to remain within the banks and use their firearms if necessary. Communists) hoisted a red flag above tho tent where a majority of the men were quartered in Liberty Square. The Government Besident has received a telegram from the Federal Government offering to find employment for men in peanut-growing at r thirty shillings1 a week /until the crop ;"■ is harvested. . ■ . ' •
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 9
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100DARWIN'S UNEMPLOYED Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 9
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