RED FLAG SUNG IN HOUSE OF COMMONS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6849, 2 March 1929, Page 9

RED FLAG SUNG IN HOUSE OF COMMONS

JNTBBBUPTOBS EJECTED. INCIDENTS LEAD TO STRICTER RULES. United Press Association—By Eleetrie Telegraph—Copyright. Received Friday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 28. Twenty of the unemployed who took part in tho march to London, headed by a well-known Communist, called at Downing street in an attempt to see Mr. Baldwin.

On being repulsed, they went to Parliament and spent an hour or two in the central hall and sent in cards to various Labourites, who camo out and chatted with them in groups. Before leaving, the unemployed deputation suddenly concertedly began singing the Red Flag, rendering themselves liable to ejection for creating a disturbance. The police, not altogether surprised, approached the disturbers in force and unceremoniously led the men, who offered no serious resistance, to the door. There was no force used and no arrests were made.

In consequence of this and other incidents stricter rules will be enforced. Visitors will be forced to send in cards from the main entrance and will not be permitted the* usual privilege of going straight to tho central hall. In tho House of Commons to-night, during a speech by Captain Fairfax, a voice from the strangers’ gallory suddenly rang out: “What about this Canadian immigration swindle? I’ve been returned to this country destitute. It is an injustice.” The attendant immediately led out tho interrupter, who did not resist.