RALLY TO POLICE

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 169, 13 April 1932, Page 11

RALLY TO POLICE

Special Constables Ready DUNEDIN TROUBLE Quiet Day Yesterday By Telegraph—Press Association, Dunedin, April 12. A big crowd assembled in The Octagon this morning. Thirty police were on duty, but there was no demonstration. Five hundred special constables are available for swearing-in, states Superintendent Eccles. The unemployed, however, reverted to the most, sober kind of passive resistance, merely standing about, the corners, and they were not disturbed by tbe police. As a result of yesterday’s fracas it Is stated that several prosecutions are pending. Tn pursuance of last night’s decision to declare the No. 5 scheme “black.” pickets were out. but with only partial success, most of the groups working at least at part strength. Eighteen men walked off the Pine Hill job, but sixty remained. DECLARED “BLACK” University Rugby Team STUDENTS ASSIST POLICE Dominion Special Service. Dunedin, April 12. Resolutions carried at a massed demonstration of tbe unemployed to-day covered a wide range, embracing in their ambit both politics- and sport. Following a report that some students had rallied to tbe assistance of the police, tbe university football team ami all matches in which it is engaged during the coming season were declared “black.” Resolutions were also carried expre--' want of confidence in the mayo..’.dr. R. S. Black, and calling on the Government to resign.

RELIEF NOT REDUCED Unemployed in Dunedin STATEMENT IN HOUSE The receut clash between the unemployed and the police Ln Dunedin, in which the police drew their batons and injured several people, was referred to In the House of Representatives yesterday, when Mr. F. Jones (Labour, Dunedin South), in company with Mr. J. W. Munro (Labour, Dunedin North), asked the Minister in Charge of Unemployment if he would take further im■‘mediate steps to relieve the distress in Dunedin, and thus prevent the recurrence of disturbances. From telegraphed information he had received, he said, the disturbance on Monday was responsible for ten people being injured, including a woman with a baby in her arms. The Minister, Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, said the question of relief provision in Dunedin and elsewhere was receiving attention. He bad been informed by tbe Unemployment Board that the amount of money made available for this purpose in Dunedin was in proportion to the number of unemployed there, and that it had not been reduced. Any suggestion that the recent, disturbances had been due to or inspired by starvation were shown by the statement of tbe Mayor of Dunedin yesterday to be entirely without foundation. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr. 11. E. Holland: Will you have an inquiry made, then? Mr. S. G. Smith (Government, New Plymouth) : Go on; it was the Communists 1