BOTTLE WAS THROWN: THAT STARTED A ROW
WORKERS’ COLOUR WAR FEELING IN QUEENSLAND United Pi.— By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 11.5 a.m. BRISBANE, Today. Cane-knives and bottles flourished in a brawl between British and Italian cane-cutters at Cross Roads, near Innisfail. Feeling is running high. The trouble arose over the filling of a vacancy in a mixed gang. The British chief ganger selected a fellow- countryman, but the Italians wanted au Italian. They refused to allow the Britisher to sleep at the barracks. A bottle was thrown and the fracas followed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1037, 30 July 1930, Page 9
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