N.S.W. COAL TROUBLE
MINERS AND POLICE CLASH
SAFETY MEN FORCED OUT,
(Australian Press Association)
(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 13. Menaced by a crowd of about a thousand miners near Kurri phi ice station, a few police drew batons and charged. In a following melee, a police sergeant and a miner were injured. The trouble arose from the arrest of a speaker at a miners’ meeting. The crowd, becoming infuriated, attacked the police with stones and bottles. The agitator was urging the men to attack Roth bury again, when the police took him in charge.
The miners followed the police all the way to the station, hooting ami jeering. Women urged the men to “clean up” the polio?. Sergt. Lake dropped when struck by a piece of blue metal. After a sharp struggle, the attackers retreated.
Other developments in the coal dispute are that a body of men with banners of the self-styled Labour Defence Army, marched through Cessnoek yesterday. The procession concluded with militarv drill.
Safety men were forced out of Bellbird Colliery by pickets The pit is to be sealed.
The State Government has decided to ignore the raihvavmen’s ballot in connection with Roth bury coal.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1930, Page 5
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