POLICE STONED
BY TIMBER STRIKERS. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 20. The police were stoned by timber strikers during a mass picketing demonstration outside Hudson’s timber yards at Glebe. As volunteer voi leers were leaving the yards, with ovei two hundred police in attendance as escorts, two thousand strike pickets who were urged on by women attempted to isolate the volunteers. Four men were arrested during the demonstration. One constable was injured by a flying missile. The police succeeded in keeping the strikers back, while the workers reached the trams. Women spat at the police and volunteers and 'shouted abuse as they passed. After singing revolutionary songs the strikers dispersed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1929, Page 5
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116POLICE STONED Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1929, Page 5
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