UNEMPLOYED RALLY.
STAND-UP FIGHT AT AUCKLAND. SEQUEL IN COURT. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 9. As a sequel to a stand-up fight at a recent rally of the unemployed, John William Hughes and George Lewis were charged with fighting. The charge against Hughes was dismissed. Lewds was fined £l. A detective stated in evidence that Hughes announced he wanted to get the meeting away from the Communist element, and that he stood for King and country. That seemed to start the trouble. Hughes later offered to take on all the Communists in the hall, one after the other. Lewis’s explanation was that Hughes called him a Bolshevist and a Communist, and struck ’ him, breaking his glasses, and that lie hit out in selfdefence.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 137, 9 May 1930, Page 8
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123UNEMPLOYED RALLY. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 137, 9 May 1930, Page 8
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