A PROCESSION TO THE WORKHOUSE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 15 July 1912, Page 5

A PROCESSION TO THE WORKHOUSE.

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LONDON, July 14

Four hundred dockers, with l^ederatk)u tickets in their hats, with their ■wives and children, processioned from the East End to the workhouse. The "wfomen then dropped out, and the men demanded outdoor relief, which was rei'uspd. Three hundred entered the workhouse. Many refused the porridge supplied and other food.

The movement was clearly defeated, *iid the men were merely seeking to saw the faces of their leaders.