COMMUNIST RIOTS
A PITCHED BATTLE. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) ■WINNIPEG, September: 29. , Following a 'Communist riot last night, in which seven were arrested, and three; policemen seriously injured, during a pitched battle, Mayor Webb swore in a special force of emergency constables to-day and threatening martial law. When, the City Council refused, to hear the leader, T. 0. Woods, two hundred Communists invaded the hall. An Alderman'was hit by a stone and 50 were injured, when the police with' a baton charge drove the mob out.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1931, Page 6
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93COMMUNIST RIOTS Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1931, Page 6
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