LONDON RIOTING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 270, 29 October 1932, Page 8

LONDON RIOTING

TWELVE ARRESTS MADE M PEOPLE TREATED IN HOSPITAL. BAIN PREVENTS FURTHER TROUBLE. London, Oct. 27. • Forty people have been treated i» koapital* in connection with the Hyd« Park rioting and 12 arrests have bee* made. A heavy downpour of rain in the evening ended attempts at Communist Visorders, damping the ardour of eves the most pugnacious. Parliament House was strongly guarded. Mr McGovern i* presenting a petition in the House of Commons in which the hunger marchers ask access to the bar of the House to plead the cause of 5, 000,000 unemployed. Mr McGovern submitted the motion that the House Agree to hear the marchers. Newspapers generally correctly stress the significance of the fact that the disorders and hooliganism at Hyde Park and in the neighbourhood are likely to be exaggerated abroad. Actually they are not serious. “The* Times’’ says: “The publicity value of rioting is thoroughly understood by the organisers of these senseless demonstrations under the name of hunger-marching, which implies a state •f starvation. No one in England will be allowed to perish of hunger.” The ‘‘Morning Post” says: ‘‘The tonduct of the genuine unemployed, both on the march and at the demonstration, gave little cause for complaint, though a hammer and sickle on the banners suggest the power behind a well-organised display. These hapless Unemployed were set in motion by the hand of those skilful in making trouble. ” The “Daily Telegraph” says: I” Neither this nor any other demonstration will affect the truth that provision for the unemployed in this country is far more generous than in any tther.” ' In the House of Commons Mr LansBury asked if time might be saved on the remaining stages of the Ottawa (Agreements Bill so that unemployment might be discussed, and the Prime Minister undertook that if possible this Should be done. Other Labour members tequested leave to move the adjourntnent of the House to discuss this subject in view of the arrival of the unemployed demonstrators in London. The Speaker said that he was unable |a accept the -notion as the Government bad promised to bring in a bill dealing With the means test, which dealt with the unemployment problem. He advised the Labour members that the correct bourse was the presentation of a petition to the House of Commons asking permission for a deputation of unemployed marchers to appear at the bar •f the House to present their case. Bhis advice is being followed and a petition will be presented early next Week,