TRADES HALL BRAWL
COMMUNISTS TAKE CHARGE
A FIERCE ENCOUNTER
(Australian Press Association.)
(Received this day a+ noon.) SYDNEY, Nov. 28
Using chairs, table legs, and fists. Communist Party supporters attacked the Labour Council delegates in one of the fiercest brawls seen at the Trades Hall for many years.' Dlore than a dozen people were injured. including R. ’ King, Labour Council organiser, who was hit with a chair, while trying to defend J. ‘S'. Garden.
Furniture was smashed and pieces of a door wrenched from its ldnges.
The police were unable to gain admittance, until someone inside took down one of the door's and admitted them.
The fighting then subsided, but the Communists were in control and celebrated by singing the Red Flag.
No information was laid and no arrests made. The delegates who tried to defend the Government, principally Garden, weiie early howled down by a packed gallery.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1930, Page 5
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148TRADES HALL BRAWL Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1930, Page 5
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