DEMONSTRATION IN ALEXANDRIA
POLICE CLASH WITH UNEMPLOYED
(Rec. 7 pan.) ALEXANDRIA, June 20. A number of Egyptians were injured and many were arrested when steelhelmeted policemen made a baton charge against several hundred unemployed who were demonstrating outlide a police post in the heart of Alexandria. Order has now been restored. The trouble started when the police attempted to disperse a procession of Unemployed in which the body of an unemployed man who fasted to death was being carried shoulder high. The unemployed shouted: “We want work.” The Prime Minister (Sidky Pasha) ta ; d that the unemployment situation in Egypt was not such as to cause alarm
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24908, 22 June 1946, Page 7
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