LONDON UNEMPLOYED..

Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1921, Page 5

LONDON UNEMPLOYED..

SCENES AT POPLAR. ON ARREST OF COUNCILLORS. By Telegraph,—Press Assn—Copyright. London, Sept. 2. Remarkable scenes were witnessed at Poplar during the arrest' of Alderman Scurr. The crowd, recognising the uheriff’s officers who drove up in a taxi-cab, rushed the cab. from which two other councillors, who had already been ar- | rested, advised the people to be quiet. I A section of. the crowd tried to pull I the officers out of the cab, but they were [ eventually permitted to enter Scurr’s ! house. The crowd again becoming threat - l ening, one of the officers appealed for order. There were affecting scenes between Scurr, his wife and child. Scurr addressed the crowd, stating that he would never give in, and advised them i not to pay a penny of rent. As the car I drove off the crowd sang “The Red [ Flag,” and shouted “Up, rebels.” I The siege of the office of the Wooli wich Board of Guardians lasted twelve hours. The chairman of the board told-, the demonstrators at six o’clock that daylight had come, and he would be glad if they would leave. The Guardians then went home and the deputation withdrew an hour later.

CROWD HOOTS SHERIFF. London, Sept. 2. When the Poplar councillors were arrested thousands of people turned out, blocking the thoroughfares, hooting and impeding the passage of the sheriff’s cars. The nine hitherto arrested do not include women. Beyond the fact of a councillor insisting on washing himself and finishing tea, no resistance was offered. Those arrested philosophically packed up piles of literature to beguile the tedium. Mr. Lans'bury, anticipating arrest, applied to the Home Secretary for permission to continue his editorship of the Daily Herald in prison. MORE ARRESTS MADE. . TRADE CONGRESS ACTION. London. Sept. 2. Three more Poplar councilors were arrested during the afternoon. The Trade Union Congress at Cardiff will consider the matter on Monday.— Reuter. LABOR CANDIDATE DEFEATED. £3 A WEEK ACCEPTED. Received Sept. 5, 12.45 a.m. London, Sept. 4. A municipal by-election at Islington, where Labor dominates the council and the board of guardians which granted the unemployed £3 13s 6d weekly, resulted in an overwhelming defeat of the Labor candidate. The election was regarded as a test of the guardians’ policy. The Shoreditch unemployed committee, after refusing the guardians’ offer of a maximum of three pounds weekly, decided to recommend its acceptance. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FURTHER ARRESTS. NO DISORDER OCCURS. Received September 4, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 3. The sheriffs arrested George Lansbury and his son, together with three other Poplar councillors. Crowds sang the “Red Flag” as the councillors were removed, but there was no disorder.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.