POPLAR GUARDIANS.
LOCKED UP BY MOB
A ROWDY ENDING. By Telegraph.— Press Assn.— Copyright. London, Feb. 7. A deputation of unemployed, exasperated by the Poplar Guardians’ refusal of the demaud to levy a rate, locked the guardians up for the night in the offices. At 2 o’clock in the morning, Mr. George Lansbury, Labor memben for Bow and Bromleyj appealed to The crowd to release the incarcerated Pressmen. The rioters refused and Mr. Lansbury then said that if the officials were not released he could not sign the necessary cheques to pay relief claims, at which the rioters sneered, declaring that the imprisonment would last until six o’clock. At four o’clock Mr. Lansbury, calling the crowd cowards, declared that the Guardians would not stand any further impudence, and with his son Edgar he 'broke through and rushed downstairs, followed by a howling gang who played a hose on the fleeing Guardians,, the remainder of whom soon followed, the Lansburys. Two women Guardians were imprisoned with their colleagues.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1922, Page 3
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169POPLAR GUARDIANS. Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1922, Page 3
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