PERTH RIOT
POLICE AND UNEMPLOYED. A FREE, FIGHT. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 10 a.m.! PERTH, March 7. Several arrests were made and eight persons treated in the hospital as the result of a violent clash between unemployed and police outside the Treasury buildings. The police were forced to draw batons and charge the crowd repeatedly to disperse them. The unemployed used stones and pieces of wood in retaliation. Many thousands of citizens watched the conflict from the road and the business houses. The disturbance followed a meeting of unemployed at which demands were made for three meals daily and beds free, and dental and medical attention. Two thousand marched to the Treasury and in order to free traffic the police unshed them hack. The unemployed. re«euted this and commenced to fiofit. Pickets were torn from ifce fence of Government gardens. Mounted ■men. however, took command aim rod© the rioters down. The police casualties were confined to cuts and bruises though one had his nose broken.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1931, Page 5
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