"RED FLAG" AT GRAVE.
BROKEN HILL INCIDENT. Sydney, Sept. 12. The condition of affairs at Broken Hill, where a great strike lias parlysed all activities for months past, is best indicated by an incident which occurred last week in the lawless place. , One night a constable going his rounds discovered a couple of burglars at work in a shop. A struggle occurred, and one of the burglars was fatally shot. He proved to be a German named William Schwardt, and burglar's tools were found on his person. He was buried in the Anglican cemetery at Broken Hill, and was followed to the grave by a large body of the miners on strike. After the religious service these gentry sang the "Red Flag" over the open grave, and one of them made a revolutionary address. Then, as if this were not enough, some of the women who were there with the strikers made themselves offensive to the Anglican clergyman. They threw insults at him as he left the graveside, and one called out: "1 hope yer fall off yer bike I on yer way home and break yer neck!" Other mining unions, particularly the New South Wales coal miners, are getting tired of contributing to the sup. port of the persistent strikers at Broken Hill. So they are now talking of putting an end to the intolerable state of affairs at Broken Hill, not by cutting off supplies, but by declaring a sympathy strike throughout the coal areas. The .coal miners, who have been given extraordinary concessions in the last year or two on condition that they would keep at work, now propose to strike because the Broken Hill Bolsheviks cannot get what they want—namely, £1 a day, with j si i'tve-day week of six hoyrs bank-to-bank a day, for all men and boys, and Die Arbitration Court not to be recognised in any way. It is not likely that the miners will go on with their proposal once they get some idea of public opinion about the matter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1919, Page 3
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338"RED FLAG" AT GRAVE. Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1919, Page 3
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