Commissioner of Native Affairs Lew McBeath later wrote an account of these events in a report for the Western Australian Minister for Native Affairs, Ross McDonald, a page of which appears here.
McBeath's Account of Strikers' Non-Violent Demonstrations
Citation
Lew McBeath to Ross McDonald, 9 April 1947, SROWA, 1947/0305/85.
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