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Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1932, Page 8

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. DEMONSTRATION AT HUNTIV. > Vv; ■ i ; HtJNTLY, July 2i f Five men who were concerned in the recent unemployment i-aid on the farmers’ store in Huntly .returned 'tx town from Auckland this morning. They were released from Mount Eden gaol yesterday after being in prison! for a month. A crowd of several hundreci singing tlie “Red' Flag” and “Keep the Home Fires Burning” greeted the men as they got off the train. 'After much band-shaking and /cheering; speakers, who referred to the men as' comrades, * welcomed them back to. Huntly and described them ;as class war prisoners. \y\ -'. - ' rib'-rivl' Members of the Huntly Unemployed Workers’ Movement then formed themselves into a procession and - marched up the town. “We are'proud of the men who . have come, from Mount Eden,”; cried a speaker. Re| banners headed-the procession and <m one were the words, “Do you want freedom?” The procession filed into the Lyceum Theatre, where a 'meeting of welcome yds held. - The men claimed that they had gone to sraol for their cause,

The demonstration was at- fait timefc orderly. Police, reinforcements arrived in Huntly from Auckland this morning.. Singing the “Red Flag,” demonstrators later marched to the residence of the Mayor, presenting him /with the following resolution“ This demonstration of' mitiersl' unemployed! and •'hitmens' of' Huntly registers an, emphatic protest against the injustice to the cii'iSs', war prisoners and demands; 'their immediate release. Also that a, stfong protest he- entered against the; sujioression of working elasis papers, and literature.” ! . ;