LABOUR CONGRESS FRACAS
SEETHING MASS OF STRUGGLING HUMANITY. Lille, July 26. Five persons were wounded and twenty bruised in the Labour Congress fracas. Orders have been issued forbidding the entry of persons carrying arms.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. July 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 26. The scones al the Labour Congress held at Lille were unparalleled. The congress was hold in an immense winter garden under a glass roof. The affray began bv certain Bolshevik extremists trying to eject a moderate named Demoulin from the tribune. Tho moderates rushed to protect their comrade. The whole congress was thereupon transformed into a seething mass of struggling, perspiring humanity, resembling an enormous football scrimmage in front of the tribune. Monmousseau, th© giant, huL-neoked secrotary of the Parisian Federation, used his fists and feet against the moderates nearby. Monmousseau’s supporters then seized tho iron chairs and hurled them The Vice-Minister of the Department Half-a-dozen revolver shots were fired, and four of the fighting delegates fell wounded.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 260, 28 July 1921, Page 5
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