UNDESIRABLES CAUSE TROUBLE.
OCCUPATION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
CLASHES WITH POLICE.
London, Jan. 4
The Labour Mayor of Islington ordered the police to eject unemployed from the Municipal Library, which was reduced to a dilapidated and insanitary condition.
1 A thousand men gathered from many parts of London and marched in procession, with bands playing and flags waving, with the avowed intention of recapturing the library. A strong force of police frustrated them. They next attempted to storm the Town Hall and enforce an interview with the Mayor. Twenty-one were arrested after mounted and foot police had made baton charges. The arrested men bore daggers, firearms, bludgeons, iron bars and petrol. The Mayor states that the demonstrators were not genuine unemployed, but undesirables and unemployables. He displayed a captured cash book revealing an improper distribution of public collections. The Mayor appeals to the public to support the funds for the genuine unemployed.— (A. and N.Z.) IRELAND
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 17, 5 January 1921, Page 5
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