ENGLAND'S UNEMPLOYED.
A DEMOSTRATION. SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE. Received October 5, 10.40 p.m. LONDON, October 5. Four thousand unemployed held a demonstration in Trafalgar Square on Sunday. Stewart Gray, one of the leaders of the unemployed, advised a march to Windsor Park, and suggested that a number of the men should sit down in the Square until moved on as a protest against the injustices of society. A number did so, but at sunset the police scattered the crowd, and arrested seven, including Gray, despite some ugly rushea made in an attempt to rescue them.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3010, 6 October 1908, Page 5
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94ENGLAND'S UNEMPLOYED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3010, 6 October 1908, Page 5
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