Heavy fire in Sydney. Insufficiency of the prevention of police about arson possibility. Risk of fires and of police provocation. Telegrammes between the state Legal department of the Crown and Department of the federal General public prosecutor.
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SYDNEYS BURNING (essay) There is no doubt that some members of the IWW were incendiarists or would-be incendiarists. Tom Barker says as much in his recently published reminiscences: warehouses and big places did go up in fire. It was very easy for anyone who got in with the stuff. After all, there was nothing new about fire-dope. It was just a mixture of phosphorus and calcium [sic] bi-supplied. It was a well-known method of making fire, wrapping these components together in a wet rag and then, by and by, when it dried out, the phosphorus set up spontaneous combustion. There was no secret about it. It had a long history behind it in Ireland, where they called it Fenian fire. It had been used in Australia by shearers over many generations to get rid of faulty accommodation. If the owner wouldnt put in decent buildings and sleeping quarters, when the boys left to go onto the next station they took some of this stuff, rolled it up in wet newspaper or cloth, and about two days after they had gone something happen