UNEMPLOYMENT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 October 1921, Page 7

UNEMPLOYMENT

BIG DEMONSTRATION,

POLICE STONED BY REDS.

POSITION IN AMERICA.

»y CABLE--PBESS ASSOCIATION--fcOFSaKJHT LONDON,, Oct. 13,.

The biggest unemployed, demonstration ever seen in London, paraded the principal streets, and a deputation of six visited the Premier s residence. The parade was orderly, wiiih the exception «fa slight scrap with the police when the vanguard essayed to break the cordon into Trafalgar Square, which was forbidden ground. ~ A few hundred demonstrators succeeded in advancing a, hundred yards in Piccadilly Circus, when a. strong Communist element instigated the previously quiet unemployed to acts of violence. A red armleted man hurled stones at the police and violent incidents followed.

The police charged with batons, jMknio-stricken men ancl women rushing auto the side streets. A number were injured, including women choppers, mho were caught in the rushes. Later the police came into conflict with a large party of red anateted men, re•talting in the Communists being disjaersed after fierce encounters. . In the meantime the piincipa! body -«! many thousands unemployed returri»«d to their own localities peacefully. Four thousand foot police ami two hun•dred mounted police were engaged dealing, with the situation.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. The unemployment conference-split ••ver/the question of recommending irage reductions, the division occurring ■when the employers' representatives presented a statement declaring that plages must come down together with Iprices. When a serious quarrel seemed inevitable the conference adjourned to *vert clashes between the Labourites Jand the employers. The? latterY statement said there wiust be no favourites in the drastic ?»conomic adjustment necessary: to • es"tabiish new prices, but employers arid |6mployees.all must meet the condifions «nd make sacrifices. The minority Labour report declared that there must Tbe no policy of wage reduction; on the Contrary, there -must be a policy of •caliing tlie highest possible rates of |wages in every Industry.. A reduction }in buying power stops purchasing, virhich stops manufacturing and creates unemployment. .