DRAMATIC SCENE
IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. STRANGER IN PUBLIC GALLERY. EJECTION RESISTED. (United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association —United Service.) Received March 1, 9.5 a.m.> LONDON. Feb. 27, During the consideration of the Ministry of Labour’s estimates to-night—-a speech on the question of unemployment was being made by Sir Newton Moore —there came a dramatic interruption. A man rose in the public gallery and shouted: “Capitalism 1 Capitalism!” Three attendants rushed up and tried to persuade him to withdraw, but ho refused. A plain-clothes constable then went to assist the attendants. The interrupter, a powerfully-built man, was of the unemployed who had tramped to London with the “hunger marchers.” He resisted strenuously and clutched at his seat and the railings. Eventually the interrupter, who shouted: “I thought you didn’t use lorce,” was half-carried, half-dragged from the gallery and detained in the police room until the House rose.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 78, 1 March 1929, Page 7
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150DRAMATIC SCENE Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 78, 1 March 1929, Page 7
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