UNEMPLOYED MINERS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19164, 22 November 1927, Page 9

UNEMPLOYED MINERS.

DBMONSmATION m hOtmON. (BT CABiK—2BJSBS ASSOCTATiOX—C&PVMGHT.) (WSTRkIIXS AND K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON. November 20, j Over 200 miners arrived in London, having walked all the way from South "Wales in order to bring the distress in the coalfields before the Government. Their march ended in a downpour in Trafalgar square, whither they tramped after lunch in Hyde Park, with lighted safety lamps and dripping banners, headed by 1(30 London ex-iservic-emen, followed by pipers, fifes, and drums. Thousands of spectators cheered them en route. Ten thousand people assembled in Trafalgar square and the "Red Flag" and the "Internationale" were sung. Messrs Maxton and Cook spoke. Mr Cook declared that the tramp would reecho in Berlin, Prussia, and New Yorkdrawing attention to the poverty of the miners and the callousness of Baldwinisni. He then called: "Now shout after me, 'Baldwin, yon must go.' " The crowd vociferously responded, and carried a resolution calling on the Government to receive a deputation and hear suggestions for ameliorating the situation of 60,000 unemployed miners The marchers spent the night in Bethnal Green Town Hall.