SPECIAL CONSTABLES.
FASCISTS' OFFER DECLINED. MINERS OPPOSE NEW BODY. {Received 5.5 p.m.) Renter. ijONDON, Oct. 7. Attempts by the British Fascists to enrol special constables have be.en, abandoned in Liverpool, Manchester and Wolverhampton. A letter from the Chief Constable of Manchester to the commander of the Manchester Fascists was read at a meeting of the Manchester City Council. The -writer declined the offer oi the Fascists to join the special constabulary. The Chief Constable said he was confident that the citizens of Manchester, in the future as m the past, would be ready to help the police in the maintaining of order in cases of emergency. At a conference of Scottish miners at Glasgow a resolution was adopted protesting against the formation of the organisation for the maintenance of supplies. The opinion was expressed that similar organisations would be used against miners who entered into industrial conflict.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19144, 9 October 1925, Page 9
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