UNEMPLOYMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1930, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT

FURTHER: DEMONSTRATIONS

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NEW YORK, March fi

Other North American cities where rioting and demonstrations occurred in connection with unemployment, were Cleveland, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Seattle, Oakland and Toronto. In all these there was some lighting between the police and the demonstral-

CHICAGO, March 7.

Tbo Chicago observations of the International Unemployment Day was hold without disorder of any kind. It opened with a parade of 4000 marchers, which quietly moved through the streets without any attempt to proceed to the city hall.

MORE POLICE INTERFERE

NEW YORK, March 7

Reports from Newhnven, Connecticut, indicate there has also been rioting’ there, attended by considerable fighting. Several persons were injured the police dispelling the rioters. Some fear was felt that the demoiisti ators might attack the City Hall, which uas locked against invasion.

THE biggest demonstrations

NEW YORK, Alarch 7

With fifty thousand celebrants here. New York and Detroit (which had seventy-five thousand), had the most important demonstrations, which, on the whole, were not considered serious.

IN ENGLAND

POLICE STOOP THEM ALL,

LONDON, Alarch 6

“Red Thursday” has been organised throughout the world by the Communists as an international unemployed day. It appears to have achieved nothing beyond several broken beads suffered liere, ,and these is the course of a universal police breaking-up of the various demonstrations.

The whole tiling was a fiasco. London’s storm centre was 'Tower Hill, to which there was made a bannered procession, and where some five hundred gathered. A\ hen it was announced that the Lord Alnyor refused to receive the deputation, a section attempted to rush in the direction of the Mansion House. They came up against a body of mounted police. There was a general melee, in which five people were injured slightly. They finally reassembled at Tower Hill, where Mr Tom Alaun fiambuoyantly spoke of “cowards were incompetent in the Labour Government.”

At Glasgow two hundred made a procession to the City Chambers. Two were arrested when attempting to make a speech, and t\Vo others, who attempted to rescue, were also taken into custody after which the remainder broke up into groups and discussed their grievance. In Manchester, the police broke up a demonstration, and five were arrested. These were, later fined forty shillings each.

ON THE CONTI NK XT

LONDON, March 7

Reports from all the Furopeaii centres reveal similar episodes. In Paris the police were ,so strongly reinforced that the demonstrations were impossible. To give an idea of the watchfulness, three persons when stickbig bills, were arrested.

At Rerlin, the police with rubber truncheons, rapidly dispersed two thousand assembled in the centre of Ihe city, and the crowd began stoning the police, who used revolvers killing two. At Warsaw a handful tried in vain to stir up a crowd of unemployed, but they were arrested before being successful.

In Vienna, seven were arrested when they attempted to break through n notice cordon. There 'was a procession of fifteen hundred demonstrators, which was sneered at.

UNEMPLOYED RELIEF

(Received this day at 9.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, March 8

The State Parliamentary Labour Party approved of the Cabinet’s pronosals for unemployment insurance. It is now proposed, pending the operation of such legislation, to raise throe hundred and fifty thousand sterling by special income .and property tax for the relief of unemployed at a rate of halfpenny in the pound on. incomes derived from personal exertion and a. penny in the pound from the property. The income tax will be levied on single men earning two hundred a year or over, married throe hundred sterling or over.