TOWN HALL GUARDED
IN FEAR OF DEMONSTRATION
FIREMAN AND POLICE ON DUTY
LONDON, December 2
West Ham Town Hall in Stratford broad way was turned into a fovtiC 1 s last night when fhe West Ham Council held its last meeting befor e the municipal elections. Information had been lOeeived during the day that a force of .unemployed men. intended to capture the budding.
An hour before the meeting began extra police were drafted from surrounding districts, and a cordon of policemen spaced at intervals of only a few feet was posted round the entire block in which the lown Ha.,l -lands. Fou r mounted polite stood guard at the entrance doors, whHli were locked amt barred, in addition to a rs-o 1i d rank of ordinary police. Firemen from, the station, .next door to the Town Hail entrance doors inside the hall.
Th e crowds flowed from ( the pavements Oil to the roadway,' and the police bad difficulty in keep’ng t'o heaw traffic, which passes along the Broadway, moving. There was a slight -eone in Die ('Mined Chamber itself dmitr: a di~-eiv-isioii oil unemployment, but there was no disorder outside, and alter conclusion of the meeting most of. the crowd dispersed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1932, Page 6
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