REIGN OF THE REDS

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2398, 7 April 1931, Page 6

REIGN OF THE REDS

ORGANISERS OF TROUBLE DISTURBERS OF THE PEACE TRAM SERVICE HELD UP t I'e/ Press Association*. Wellington, April 4. About 400 relief workers who ate on str'kc against the reduced wage were addressed by one of.'their number at the Trades ilall yard this morning and-urged to keep on the st-ke. Then a process Urn whs formed along tlie principal e-ty streets with tlie men carrying banners protesting agalhist the new relief rates. On Lambton Quay the tram traffic was held up, the demonstrators iefus 'ng to move oil’ tho tram rai’s. The situation several times became ton so, the traincafs proceeding at a walking pace, pushing the demonstrators in front of them until the crowd wa s dispersed.