RIOTOUS MEETING
LABOURITES AT GLASGOW
HECKLED BY COMMUNISTS
United Prese Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright United Service
LONDON, 9th January. A foretaste of what candidates of all parties may expect in the forthcoming election was experienced by .Mr Arthur Henderson, Air John Wheatley, and Mi" David Kirkwood (all Labour) at a riotous Glasgow meeting. Communists’ shouts of “Spy! Murderer! Traitor!” greeted Mr Henderson, whose first words: “If you were in
Russia,” were lost in pandemonium. -Mr Kirkwood, removing his spectacles, jumped from the platform into tho melee. I The police intervened and arrested seventeen, including G rrv Aldred, a notorious Communist, four women and a blind man, upon which Mr Henderson shouted: ‘'The revolution is now over.”'
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 10 January 1929, Page 5
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