Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Brawl in Brisbane Procession
Brisbane, May 4.- Only a few Communist “Peace” and “Stop the Korean War” slogans found their way into the Labour Day procession today – and after it had started.
Police, who guarded against offensive slogans, and Australian Labour Party officials, keenly censored all placards before the march began at 10 a.m. Some Communist slogans and one religious “Free Advertisement” were banned.
Brawling broke out in Ann Street during the procession, when two men marching with the Electrical Trades Union displayed “Peace” slogans.
In a 50 yards’ fight near City Hall, while the procession continued, the union’s Secretary (Mr. A. H. Dawson) and others ripped the slogans away from their bearers. The two men, who waved the slogans first in Ann Street, carried the crushed remnants of them into Queen Street, but they were illegible.
Unions from Government departments, the City Council, and private organisations displayed more