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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Historical
• Sale Date:
  25 Jun 2022 ~ 10am (AEST) - Session 1: Lots 1 - 769
  26 Jun 2022 ~ 10am (AEST) - Session 2: Lots 770 - 1491
• Lot #:
  1032
• Lot Description:
  1923 MELBOURNE 2a.m. SPECIAL EDITION NEWSPAPER - POLICE STRIKE:
  The Argus / Sunday 2am / RIOTS IN THE CITY / UNPRECEDENTED SCENES / Window Smashing & Looting / APPEAL BY THE MINISTRY / No Trains or Trams To-Night .....,single sided special edition,
  68 X 15cm, framed and glazed 85 x 30cm overall.
• Notes:
  The 1923 Victorian Police strike occurred on the eve of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival in November 1923, when half the police force in Melbourne went on strike over the operation of a supervisory system using labour spies. Riots and looting followed as crowds poured forth from Flinders Street railway station on the Friday and Saturday nights and made their way up Elizabeth and Swanston Streets, smashing shop windows, looting, and overturning trams. The response to the crisis saw a legal prerogative first established in Melbourne in 1842 invoked. The Riot Act had been invoked on several previous occasions by the State Government, enabling volunteers to be sworn in as Special Constables in times of crisis. This single column of newsprint was the entire newspaper, a 2a.m. edition on 4 November 1923 reporting on the strike, associated looting and distribution from Melbourne Town Hall of Special Constable armbands. 500 mainly ex-servicemen were sworn in under the direction of Sir John Monash and issued batons to break up the rioting which went for 2 nights.
• Estimate:
  A$1,000 - 1,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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