RIOT BY UNEMPLOYED
NEWFOUNDLAND CAPITAL SEVERAL CASUALTIES RESULT (Received May 12, 5.5 p.m.) ST. JOHNS. May 11 A rioting crowd broke store windows and stole merchandise last evening after the police and unemployed had engaged during the afternoon in a hand-to-hand fight in front of the Colonial Building. Windows of jewellery and shoe stores in the West End were broken early in the melee around the Colonial Building after a crowd of 900 had assembled demanding an interview with the commissioner. Sir John Hope Simpson. In the course of a police charge, which broke up the gathering, Mr. John Meaney, a press correspondent, also an unemployed spokesman and se\era policemen were injured. The march on the Colonial Building started after a mass meeting had been told that the Commission Government had refused to discuss unemployment with the committee of the unemployed. The crowd marched through the main streets behind'the Union Jack. Three arrests have been made.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22107, 13 May 1935, Page 9
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