SYDNEY RIOT

Evening Star, Issue 20136, 28 March 1929, Page 8

SYDNEY RIOT

BALLOT PAPERS BURNED ALSO EFFIGY OF JUDGE Presa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, March 28. (Received March 23, at 10 a.m.) Following the burning of the timber workers’ ballot papers, which were placed in a kerosene-soaked bag and set on fire in defiance of the warnings of Federal authorities and police, the effigy of Mr Justice Lukin was tied to a tree in Hyde Park and burned in the riot which followed. Revolvers were drawn and batons used by a body of police in t.heir odorrs to qucil the maddened rush of hundreds of men rioters, who threatened to overwhhn the police. Fighting desperately, the police eventually succeeded m getting clear of the angry mob, and at the same time arrested seven men, who were charged with riotous behaviour. Several of the police were punched about the faces. It is estimated that >50,000 people witnessed the burning episode. The scenes were unprecedented in the history of Australian trade unionism. TWO MORE ASSAULTS. .MEN SERIOUSLY INJURED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, March 28. (Received March 28, at 10.35 a.m.) There wore two more brutal assaults on timber workers la.-A night. A loyal worker was set on by nine men at Redfern. lie was thrown to the ground and savagely kicked on the head and body. The man alleged that he had previously been threatened with murder if ho continued working. The second attack occurred at Anna udale, John Gordon being kicked into an unconscious condition by two masked men, who made oil’ in a waiting car.