BATONS & POLITICS
QUEENSLAND EPISODE STATE PARLIAMENT HOUSE STORMED. I AIMS OF INTRUDERS RATHER I VAGUE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. BRISBANE, August 4. Armed with improvised batons 40 men who called themselves the League for Social Justice stormed Parliament House today and gained access to a chamber where the Labour Party was meeting. They began brandishing lhe batons, thoroughly startling the Labour members. They then proceeded to argue with the Premier. Mi' Forgan Smith, till the arrival of the police, who removed them.
The intruders had previously herded the House staff together and warned them not to give the alarm, but somebody managed to call the police, a hundred of whom soon wore in attendance.
The Premier warned the mon that they would be prosecuted with tlm utmost rigour of the law. He stated later that lie was unable to explain the aims of the league beyond learning from their pamphlets tiia! they wanted a twentieth century Magna Carta and improved conditions for all sections of the community. Later 37 men were charged with being an unlawful assembly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1939, Page 7
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