LONDON’S UNEMPLOYED

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20732, 16 February 1939, Page 4

LONDON’S UNEMPLOYED

GATE CRASH A BANQUET , REFUSE PROFFERED MEAL, (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, Jan. 20 Seven unemployed men tried to gatecrash a dinner at a West End hotel last night—a dinner of connoisseurs in food. They left when asked to do so by police, says the Daily Herald. Members of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement, they brushed their way past a uniformed commissionaire outside the entrance to the restaurant L’Auberge de France, in Piccadilly Circus, where members of a group of the Wine and Food Society were dining. They carried posters with the words: "You feast while unemployed starve.’’ While diners-out were crowding tne resiauiant they lay down on ilie steps leading to the foyer. For half on hour M. Dertu. the manager, remonstrated with ihein. The men shouted. "DinO for a banquid. while we want bread." M. Derlu raid afterwards. "I told them I hat lliej could come up and have 1 a meal but did not accept. W ion ! ;»,(• p,,;ioe came tin men left quie i.’." I nne of Hi.- unemployed said. "We ! were him . Wo were !o!d tut' a I, i,,r gioul 25 would be sittins j down to a meal costing about £lO a | head. ; "We thought we might hr in'lied 1 10 din oni loo." | qhe tv.re and Food Sneie'y r* a _ |ae "aid ul %v.se dmin»."