UNEMPLOYED RIOTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 214, 8 September 1921, Page 5

UNEMPLOYED RIOTS.

SHARP STRUGGLE AT BRISTOL POLICE CHARGE MOB. LIVERPOOL DEMONSTRATION. (By Cnbic—rrcss Association.—Copyright,) (Iteceh-ert 50.W) n.nO LONDON, September 7. I'nfmploypil demonstration;) were held loday in a number of provincial town*, including Bristol, whore n. thousand unemployed attacked the Board of Quar. iiians : office™, ami were only repulsed after a sharp struggle with the polio", in "which the unemployed used sticks, brirkß, and iron bars, and broke many windoTvi-. Finally the police charged and scattered the crowd, making a number of arrests. Three thousand demonstrators ot Hudder&field demanded £1 a -week for raeh adult and 7/G for each rhild, plus 14/ rent and also coal. The Guardian* refused, and offered food coupons and temporary meals at the Salvation Army barracks. Fire thousand noisy demonstrators gathered outside the Liverpool Town HaU. the crowd passing a resolution that unless the Lord Mayor came out and addressed tht; crowd within ten minute? he must take the responsibility oi vhe consequences. The Lord Mayor came out and conferred with the wen's leaders in full TiE-n- of thp waiting crowd. The Health Ministry refused to sano tlon the proposals of the Islington Board of GuaTdiaus t-o pay unemployed 63/ a week for a man with six children, in addition to rent. The Ministry's rule is thax th* amount paid must not ex. cned the lowest rate of jiay to a labourer locally. The Guardians are liable to a f-urcharjre on am- amount above this,— (A. and >\Z. Cable.)