LONDON POLICE EJECT MEN FROM HALL
INCIDENT BEFORE SPEECH BY SIR O. MOSLEY LONDON, Dec. 7. After a violent .struggle the police ejected 60 men who barricaded thernsel\res inside a London County Council school in Roman Road, East London. to prevent its being used for a meeting addressed by Sir Oswald Mosley. The men took possession of the hall 90 minutes before Sir Oswald Mosley’s address on “Policy for the People” was scheduled to begin. They collected about 50 chairs and stacked them as a barricale high against the doors and windows, and chained the doors on the inside. Six policemen entered the building, but the men refused to leaA'e. They lay on the floor with joined hands. Police reinforcements arrived, ana after a struggle all the men were ejected. . ..„ T One of the ejected men said: \\ e are all anti-Fascists, and most of us are ex-servicemen as well. One of our number Avas injured, and many had their clothes torn.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 51, 9 December 1948, Page 5
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