LIVERPOOL RIOTS

Grey River Argus, 23 September 1932, Page 5

LIVERPOOL RIOTS

THIRTY INJURED Withdrawal of Relief FROM THE POOR. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). LONDON, September 21. Thirty persons were injured, while fifteen have been arrested in the city of Liverpool, where many shop windows and tram-car windows have been broken during clashes between the police and the unemployed. There wer c four thousand demonstrators. They marched through the streets in the afternoon, demanding the abolition of tho Means Test for the higher scale of poor law relief. The procession was a quiet and orderly one, till a woman knocked off a p'oliceman’s helmet. Them an attempt was made to ar rest her, whereupon the angry crowd attacked the police with stones, bricks and bottles. The police had reinforcements summoned. Fifty policemen, who were, accompanied by mounted men, then charg d the, crowd with their drawn batons. •Several persons were knocked down. The disturbances were renewed in th? evening, when mounted policemen had to disperse the crowd, which smashed several shop windows. Heavy police forces have patrolled the Liverpool streets during the whole night.