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; P.S.A. I'N EMPLOYED. | (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright, t NOW YORK. February 10. Uneinploymeat deinonstrations took place throughout the country to-day, and brought police interference in several cities, including Boston. Oakland and Butt. Generally the gatherings were quiet, the officials sympathetically receiving the demands presented by the jobless. Communist agitators appeared to have arranged demonstrations on a wide scale. One of the principal demands was the enactment of a Federal Unemploynieni Insurance Law A Communist demonstration on Boston Common was broken up by the police, and twelve were arrested, including two women and two clergy-' men, who objected to the police methods. Forty policemen charged a. parade while on route to the City Hall in Oakland, and broke it up. In Washington a Communist delega tion which marched on the Capitol was refused admission to apnear on the House floor, bur. was admitted to tin 1 House public gallery.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1931, Page 6
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