UNSEEMLY INCIDENT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 June 1927, Page 5

UNSEEMLY INCIDENT.

SCRIMMAGE BY A DEPUTATION. A deputation of about 250 unemployed. carrying banners, marched to Parliament House yesterday and waited re die Prime Minister, the Minister of Labour, and the Minister of PnliliWorks. While the Mini Me--: speak-ing there were many interjections frion the unemployed, despite the attempts of the Labour representatives present to secure a fair hearing for the sT'cakers. When the. speeches were concluded, a crowd pressed round Mr Coates and individual cases were discussed. Then there occurred a scene, >■'sing nut of a request made to the Prime Minister for a cigarette. When he proceeded to empty his ease, there

iv!i* a rush and Air Coates was forced back to the wall, a table was overturned and smashed, and a typist knocked down, but fortunately not injured. An .appeal by one of the crowd, who declared, “This is the way to spoil every-: thing” was howled down. Another uiiiu, when the invitation was given to those seeking work to hand in their names, called out, “Not at nine bob a day. Come back, you scabs,” and afterwards he wrote, in red crayon, on the wall of the room, “We want work.”