HUNGER MARCHERS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1932, Page 6

HUNGER MARCHERS

COMMONS PETITION CONFISCATED.

TROUBLE CAUSED AT .WORKHOUSE. '

(United Frees Asaneiatioii-rßy Electric

Telegraph—Copyright.)

LONDON; Nov. 2.

• Pandemonium occurred at the Fulham Workhouse, " where the County Council is housing and feeding six hundred unemployed marchers, at a cost of £l5O daily. The casual inmates resented the marchers being allowed to buy rump steak and tobacco to supplement and demanded their inclusion in the ordinary rations and refused to do their tasks. One hundred and forty police arrived .and arrested fifty, of whom seventeen were charged with refusing to work.

It is now disclosed that the million signature petition, which the marchers yesterday attempted to lodge in the Commons, '"was deposited, in the Cloak room at. the Charing Cross, station,’.' when .the deputation turned hack. The marchers to-day presented the receipt, and asked for the return of the petition, hut were informed that the police had called last night and confiscated- the. document,

27 RIOTERS BEFORE COURT.

LONDON, November 2,

Tweuby-woUpn • demonstrators appeared an various charges at Bow Street. A one-armed 'man,' Ed word james, was sentenced to six months’ hard labour for flowing a bottle, and striking a trooper with a block of wood.

; John ’ Gellatly, who walked from ’ Edinburgh, was sentenced to fiix jnonths’ imprisonment for striking a • constable wjfch a stave, and inciting the crowd to rti4t the police.'