Sydney burning

They arranged for Scully to be brought back from San Francisco to Sydney.There is no doubt that some members of the IWW were incendiarists or would-be incendiarists.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 had been used in Australia by shearers over many generations to get rid of faulty accommodation.When they came back next year there were brand new buildings waiting for them.That was a method of cajoling the cocky into doing what the law required him to do.Others, there was no doubt at all about it, had some knowledge of it.This was known to the labour movement at the time.