POLICE BATTLE

Grey River Argus, 13 May 1935, Page 5

POLICE BATTLE

With Unemployed

AT NEWFOUNDLAND CAPITAL. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received May 11, at 1.10 p.m.) ST. JOHNS (Newfoundland) May 10. Rioting has occurred here. The crowd smashed store windows and stole merchandise. The rioting took place to-night, after the police and the unemployed had engaged during th? afternoon in a hand-to-hand battle in front of the Newfoundland colonial buddings. The windows of jewellery and shoe stores in the west end of St. John’s* were broken early in the melee around the Colonial Building. The disturbance followed on the assembling of '» crowd of nine hundred peop e, who were demanding an interview with the Commissioner of Newfoundland, Sir John Hope Simpson.

The police macle a charge, breaking the gathering. Mr John Meaiieyj a press correspondent. also an unemployed spokesman. and several of the police were injured. There was a march on the Colonial Building started after the mass meeting had been told that the Newfoundland Commission Government refused to discuss unemployment with the Committee of the unemployed. The crowd marc’hed through the main main streets behind a Union Jack. Three arrests were made.