HUNGERMARCHERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1930, Page 5

HUNGERMARCHERS

INVASION OF COMMONS

- SCUFFLE WITH POLICE

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]

(Recd. May 7, 1 p.m.) LONDON, May 6.

Late this afternoon, after a failure to interview Mr. MacDonald, a body of hunger-marchers assembled at the members’ entrance to the House of Commons, escorted by a large body of mounted and foot police.

While those in the courtyard sang “The Red Flag,” twenty leaders entered the House for the. alleged purpose of interviewing their members. While the conversation interviews were proceeding, about a dozen men raised a sudden shout, and rushed down the Central Hall to the inner lobby. The police stopped the rush, and after a few minutes’ scuffle, the party was ignominiously run out of the building, the police holding them by the scruff of the necks. Eight were arrested. Another party outwitted the police at Whitehall, and managed to get into the Ministry of Health 'where they locked themselves in a room shouting and creating a disturbance until the police broke in, and ejected them, after a short struggle.