ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT
DEMONSTRATION IN CITY Banners bearing inscriptions against war and Fascism were carried by many of the 250 men, women and children who took part in an anti-war demonstration through tho city yesterdaj afternoon. Tho demonstration was organised by the Auckland Provincial Council of the New Zealand Movement Against War and Fascism, and among those taking part were returned soldiers, raihvaymen, relief workers and members of Communist organisations. The demonstrators assembled in Quay Street, and, headed by a band, marched via Queen Street and Karangahapo Itoad to Western Park, where an antiwar meeting was held. Speeches were made by representatives of the various organisations taking part in the demonstration, which included the Newmarket branch of the Amalgamated Society of llailway Servants, the Friends of tho Soviet Union, the Local and Suburban Bodies Labourers' Union, tho Working Women's Movement, tho Auckland Tramways Union, the Communist Party, tho National Unemployed Workers' Movement, tho Esperanto Society, and the Young Communist League. »
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22403, 27 April 1936, Page 14
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