SACCO-VANZETTI EXECUTIONS
PROTEST MEETINGS IN LONDON AMERICAN FLAG TORN UP. London, August 28. Ten thousand orderly Communist Labour demonstrators grouped aroujjd crape-draped banners, assembled in Trafalgar Square as a protest against the Sacco and Van zetti executions. One man mounted th© plinth of the monument and unrolled an American flag, and was about to pour petrol thereon, preoa ratorv to ignition, when officials of the International ClaSs War Prisoners’ Aid Society remonstrated. He climbed down, but afterwards the flag was torn to shreds bv bvstanders.
Mr Cook, the miners’ secretary, seconded a resolution viewing the executions with honor He also urged his hearers to turn indignantly against Mr Baldwin. -(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 30 August 1927, Page 7
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