CLASH WITH THE POLICE
STONES AND ABUSE FLY IN SYDNEY BAI ILE FOUR MEN ARRESTED (United P.A.——By Telegraph—Copyright) Recd. 11 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. The police were stoned by timber strikers during a. mass picketing demonstration outside Hudson's timber yards at Glebe. As volunteer workers were leaving the yards. more than 200 police were in attendance as escorts, and 2,000 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.
The women spat at the police and volunteers, and shouted abuse as they passed. After singing revolutionary songs. the strikers dispersed. FREE-LABOUR POSITION
The organiser of the volunteer timber workers, Mr. J. O’Brien, says his organisation is endeavouring to fill every striker‘s position with free labour. Skilled men are coming from all the other States.
Mr. O'Brien has placed 147 volun—teers since Tuesday. There will be none of the strikers' positions left.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 720, 20 July 1929, Page 9
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