DEMANDS FOR WORK
DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON BY UNEMPLOYED
HOUSE OF COMMONS INVADED.
SCUFFLE WITH POLICE.
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, January 31. Unemployed persons, arriving by a taxi-cab, endeavoured to carry a coffin, inscribed with demands for food and work, into the House of Commons. Other demonstrators produced umbrellas and banners having similar slogans. Police rushed up, dispersed the crowd, and seized the coffin, after a melee in which the demonstrators downed policemen, and knocked their helmets off. There were twelve arrests.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1939, Page 5
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87DEMANDS FOR WORK Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1939, Page 5
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