DEPUTIES IN CONFLICT
o UPROAR IN BELGIAN PARLIAMENT LABOUR DEMONSTRATION BANNED (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TIXEURATH —COPYRIGHT.) (Received February 20, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, February 20. The "News-Chronicle's" Brussels correspondent says that the Government's decision to prohibit the big labour demonstration planned for February 24 led to a free fight in Parliament. Socialist deputies rushed at and punched M. Bovesse, Minister for Finance, in the face. Ten ushers leaped to rescue M. Bovesse. The whole house immediately joined in one of the biggest uproars the Belgian Parliament has ever known. M. Vandervelde, the Socialist leader, declared that the prohibition amounted to provocation of the working class. M. Theunis, the Belgian Premier, defended the Government's action on the ground that the Socialist press and Socialist speakers had given the proposed demonstration an insurrectionary note. He reproached M. Vandervelde for using two languages, one for Parliament, the other for meetings, adding that his audiences were being daily incited against the Government. The Socialists are preparing a 24hour general strike, as a protest against the prohibition.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21404, 21 February 1935, Page 13
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