BATON CHARGE
DISPERSE UNEMPLOCED. Must rattan*'Press if Association.) MELBOURNE, August 13. Baton charges* by thirty policemen, dispersed a crowd of about a thousand unemployed who assembled at Fitzroy House and threatened to cause trouble over the eviction of a family for the non-payment of rent. Unemployed tore pickets from fences and were about to attack the police sergeant and bailiff, when police cars arrived.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1931, Page 6
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64BATON CHARGE Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1931, Page 6
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