“We Want Work and Bread!”

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7321, 3 September 1930, Page 7

“We Want Work and Bread!”

Hungry Horde of Workless Hungarians

IN TERRIBLE CLASH WITH 5000 ARMED POLICE

BUDA PEST IN THROES OF SERIOUS REVOLT. Unitod Press Association.—By Electrit Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Tuesday, 10 p.m. BUDA PEST, Sept. 2. An organised demonstration against the Government’s alleged refusal to grant unemployment pay led to tho most serious riot for a decade. It is estimated that four were killed and 300 wounded in tho course of numerous clashes. Trouble began with dramatic suddenness. As an advancing horde of factory hands appeared in the streets converging on the traffic junctions a hidden force of 5000 police, 3000 of whom had been specially drafted from the provinces poured from the side streets. Mounted on horses they dashed into tho moh, hut the workers continued to roll on like a tidal wave, shouting: “We want work and bread.” One account says the mounted squadron was greeted with a volley of stones. Then drawing swords and revolvers the police turned their horses on the crowd slashing right and left with their swords. The moh hurriedly threw up barricades at the side streets and refused to flee. Old women shook their fists at the officers while hus- . bands and son 3 were beaten with the fiats of swords. In the afternoon the Prefect of Police ordered the men to use whatever means were necessary to disperse the moh, and armoured cars were called out. Motor cars and tram cars were overturned, cafes smashed and shops wrecked. An official communique states that Communist pamphlets- were found on many of those arrested. At 8.30 on Monday night the Ministry of the Interior announced that order had been restored, adding that adequate measures had been taken against a recrudescence.