UNEMPLOYED IN LONDON
DEMANDS FOR FOOD AND WORK CLASH WITH POLICE fD P A —Bv Electrio Telegraph—Copyriabtl (Received Ist February, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, 31st January. Unemployed persons arriving by taxi-cab endeavoured to carry a coffin inscribed with demands for food and work into the House of Commons. Other demonstrators produced umbrellas having similar slogans. Police rushed up and dispersed the crowd and seized the coffin after a rrtelee in which the demonstrators downed policemen and knocked their helmets off. There were twelve arrests.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 1 February 1939, Page 7
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