UPROAR IN COMMONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 699, 26 June 1929, Page 8

UPROAR IN COMMONS

WOMAN CARRIED OUT STRUGGLING LEAFLETS THROWN’ HOUSE An amazing scene, reminiscent of the days of the Suffragettes, was witnessed in the House of Commons recently, writes the Parliamentary Correspondent of the “'Daily Mail ” Sir Henry Cautley was speaking when a man's voice was heard from the back of the Strangers’ Galley shouting, “Down with the Simon Commission;” At the same moment another man, sitting in the front, stood up and flung a shower of small green quarto handbills on to the floor of the House. The first interrupter got up and left the Gallery without waiting to be ejected, but a woman in another part of the Gallery started shouting. She clung to the ironwork of the Gallery and cried, “Down with the torturers.'* “To hell with the Simon Commission, ’ “Down with the murderers.” A man tried to pull her away. He failed, and, as the woman continued to shout, a muscular attendant came along and, with the help of the first man, carried her out of the Gallerv The woman and the man who threw the pamphlets were detained at the police house until 6.30 p.m.. when the sitting ended. They were James Edward Brown, aged 50, of Queen's Road, Peckham, and Sarah Burl, aged 22, of Wulston Street, W. Both are avowed Communists. The handbills bore the words:— Down with British Imperialism. Release our Indian Comrades. To Hell with the Simon Commission. British Imperialism Murders Indian Workers. Indio, for the Indian Workers Down with British Imperialist Persecutors. British Workers help to free your Indian Comrades. British Imperialism murders Indian Workers and Starves British Workers. The demonstration occurred two hours after a question had been put by Mr. Saklatvala to the Undersecretary for India about the incident at Delhi when explosive bombs were thrown In the Legislative Assembly. Mr. Saklatvala asked Lord Winterton if the Government officials had been asked if they knew anything about these “funny bombs,” and Lord Winterton protested strongly against the imputation. Mr. Saklatvala was not in the House at the time the leaflets were thrown.