RIOTS AT LIVERPOOL
VIOLENT UNEMPLOYED ATTACK ON THE POLICE MANY WINDOWS BROKEN By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Sept.' 21 Thirty people were injured and 15 were arrested at Liverpool, while the windows of many shops and tramcars were broken, in a . series of clashes between the police and unemployed. Four thousand demonstrators marched through the streets this afternoon, demanding the abolition of the "means test" and a higher scale of poor law relief. Tho procession was quiet and orderly till a woman knocked off a policeman's helmet. When an attempt was made to arrest her the angry crowd attacked the police with stones, bricks and bottles.
Police reinforcements were summoned and, accompanied by 50 mounted they charged the crowd with drawn batons. Several persons were knocked down. *
The disturbances were reiiewed this evening, when mounted police had to ■ disperse a crowd which broke the windows of several shops. Heavy police forces patrolled the streets throughout the night*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21295, 23 September 1932, Page 9
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