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RAID ON THE COMMONS HUNGER MARCHERS GAIN ENTRY IGNOMINIOUS EJECTIONS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, May 6. Late this afternoon, after failure to interview Mr Ramsay MacDonald, a body of hunger marchers assembled at the members’ entrance to the House of Commons, escorted by a large body of mounted and foot police. While those in the courtyard sang the Red Flag. 20 leaders entered the House for the alleged purpose of interviewing their members.
While conversation and interviews were proceeding, about a dozen men raised a sudden shout and rushed down the central hall to the' inner lobby. Police stopped the rush and after a few minutoo’ scuffle the party was ignominiously run out of the building, the police holding them by the scruff of their necks. Eight were arrested.
Another party outwitted the police at Whitehall and managed to get into the Ministry of Health, where they locked themselves in a room, shouting and creating a disturbance until the police broke in and ejected them after a short struggle.
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Northern Advocate, 7 May 1930, Page 5
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