VIOLENT SCENES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1931, Page 9

VIOLENT SCENES

MEETINGS BEOKEN UP

MOSLEY MENACED

LONDON, 20th October

There were violent scenes at election meetings in Glasgow and Liverpool, where two speakers were injured by stone-throwing. An open-air meeting on behalf if Mr. Erie Ellington, Conservative candidate for the Scotland division of Liverpool, was broken up.

The Glasgow police, before the start of Sir Oswald Mosley's meeting in St. Andrew's Hall, ordered the doors to be locked. Thousands stormed the entrances, and two doors were smashed.

Sir Oswald asked that the public be admitted by the police, but the management refused on account of the damage already done. >

Sir Oswald afterward attempted to address the crowd outside from a motor-ear, but the police advised him to go to Lia hotel.

Coineidently, Mr. Arthur Henderson this morning through the "Daily Herald" appeals to his supporters for a fair hearing for his opponents.

Opposition, supporters wrecked a meeting at which Mr. Duncan, Conservative candidate for North Konsington, was speaking. Free fights occurred, stink-bombs were thrown inside the schoolroom, and stones outside.

The speaker was howled down at a National Labour meeting at Peckham when he described his opponents as "a lot of cannibals."

The crowd smashed the windows of the committee rooms of Sir Frederick Hall, Conservative candidate for East Dulwich, and the Prime Minister's son, Mr. Alistair Mac Donald, was howled down at a National Labour meeting in Essex.