RIOT IN SHEFFIELD
UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF
MANY HURT IN BATON CHARGE
(Received.February 7,.2.15 p.m.)
LONDON, February 6.: Six thousand demonstrators against the unemployriient relief scale rioted outside the Sheffield Town Hall after the refusal of the council to receive their representatives.' The police delivered a baton charge and quelled the trouble. Nine constables and many rioters were injured. There were numerous arrests.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 12
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61RIOT IN SHEFFIELD Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 12
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