COMMUNISTS FLEE
(Press. Assn.—
SENATE CANDIDATE'S MEETING BROKEN UP BY NEW GUARD ARMED RUFFIANS DEFEATED
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Rec. Dec. 10. 0.50 a.m. SYDNEY, Wednes. Since the raids upon Communists were commenced at Burke recently, Communists all over the State have been hunted relentlessly, the police in every instance saving them from the roughest handling. There were exciting scenes to-day at Wollongong, a coal-mining centre on the South Coast, where it was expected that the Communists would have a considerable amount of sympathy. Lawrence Sharkey, the Communist Senate candidate, had just begun to address an open-air meeting opposite the Soldiers' Memorial Hall when be was dislodged from his soap-box and sent sprawling to the ground. His Communist friends rushed forward armed with pieces of iron pipe and similar weapons, but were unable to use them owing to a swift onslaught by hundreds of members of the New Guard and returned soldiers who, carefully organised, had the .Communists on the run before a blow • ,could be struck. Police joined the others in the pursuit and fearing that the Communists would be lynched, they arrested eight ! of them for their own safety.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 93, 10 December 1931, Page 5
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190COMMUNISTS FLEE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 93, 10 December 1931, Page 5
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