DEMONSTRATION AT STATION
SCENES AT VICTORIA. (Independent Cable Service.) Received January 11, 9.30 a.m. LONDON. Jan. 10. Amid boos and cat calls from Left "Wing demonstrators and unemployed at one end of the platform and cheering supporters at the entrance to their compartment, Mr Chamberlain and Lord Halifax left Victoria Station at 11 a.m. for Paris on the first stage of their Rome visit.
Unemployed demonstrators, carrying the famous black coffin tried to rush the platform, shouting, “Appease the unemployed, not Mussolini.” but the police halted them, smashed their coffin and pursued the demonstrators through the entrance hall.
The black coffin referred to has frequently been used by the unemployed in processions and on one occasion was used to contain a petition to Parliament on their behalf.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 36, 11 January 1939, Page 7
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