A FIASCO

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1930, Page 3

A FIASCO

"WE WANT FORBES

RALLY OF UNEMPLOYED

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Po*t/ l)>

AUCKLAND, This Day.

An attempted demonstration by s* employed on the Prince "VVhaif at th» departure of the Prime Minister, th» Hon. G. W. Forbes, for London, proved a fiasco. The men did not succeed in. meeting Mr. Forbes, and if they saw him at all it could only have been a$ the rail of the liner as she moved away, from her berth.

A party of about 30 men, with * banner inscribed, "One Big Union fo* ■Unemployed and Casual Workers," arrived on the wharf some time before the Prime Minister was due and formed up in the roadway between two sheds near the liner's bow. After they had beguiled their wait with occasional shouts of "We want Forbes," the leaders allowed themselves to be persuaded that the official party which wai to attend the farewell gathering in one of the sheds would enter it by another roadway through which passengers »nd others were being admitted to th« berth. The men therefore marched to the other entry and tried to make way through the open iron gates. These were quickly closed after a few scuffles by Harbour Board officiate and police. Meanwhile Mr. Forbes and his party had entered the shed at the other end. The hooting was heard as the Prim* Minister was making a little speech to United Party- supporters on the upp« floor. "It is only their way of eh««" ing," he remarked. "It is a different form of language, but it comes from th 4 heart." The party descended by the staSff1 case and reached tho berth unseen t>j! the demonstrators, who raised no for* ther noise.