HUNDRED INJURED
RIOTING IN NEW YORK. COMMUNISTS FIGHT POLICE. “WORST SINCE THE WAR.” (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11-15 a.m.) NEW YORK, Alarch 6. One hundred persons were injured in a riot, described by the Police Commissioner (Air Whalan) as “the worst since the war,” when Communists fathered about soap-box orators m Union Square, and attempted to march toward the City Hall. , - Police, one of whom sustained a fractured skull, attempted to stem tlie column, upon which noting commenced. , -v Many persons were battered, -ciusued, or* trampled upon in the senmm Many Communists, including three prominent leaders, were ariested.
POLICE “TEAR-GAS” BOMBS. DEMONSTRATION AT WA.SHINGt . TON. (Received This Dny ILo a.m.) WASHINGTON, Alarch 6. . The police, with “tear-gas” bombs, broke an “Unemployment Day demonstration before White House and arrested a dozen persons. . , . Several men’ were .injured m a miniature riot, which was abruptly supP * Riot 1 cal Is followed outbreaks in Philadelphia, Boston, Pittsburg and Detroit where numerous arrests were made. Several fights occurred and less violent demonstrations took place throughout the country.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 124, 7 March 1930, Page 5
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