BRITISH ELECTIONS
SHOUTED DOWN BY COMMUNISTS. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Jan. 9. A foretasto of what the candidates of all-Parties may expect in the forthcoming General Elections was experienced hy Messrs Arthur Hcndcison, Wheatley, and David Kirkwood (Labourites), at a riotous Glasgow meeting. Communists’ shouts of “Spy!” “Murderer!” “Traitor!” greeted Mr Henderson, whose first words, “If you were in Russia,” were lost in a pandemonium. Mr Kirkwood, removing his spectacles, jumped from the platform into the melee. The police intervened and arrested seventeen persons, including Guy Aldred, a notorious Communist; also four women, and a blind man. Upon this, Mr Henderson sliouted: “Revolutions are now over!”
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1929, Page 6
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