CHAMBER INVADED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22404, 28 April 1936, Page 11

CHAMBER INVADED

TEENTON UNEMPLOYED REFUSAL TO GO AWAY SIX DAYS* OCCUPATION By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received April 27, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK,. April 2G Alarmed by marching hungerstrikers who invaded Trenton, the capital of New Jersey, and by the crowding of the Assembly Chamber with more demonstrators, the Speaker, Mr. Newcomb, called a special session of the Lower House for yesterday. However, it was cancelled owing to the leaders' inability to agree on the emergency tax programme. Meanwhile tho unemployed indicated that they were prepared to hold the fort until something was done. With the once august Chamber resembling a dug-out in time of war, tho controversy between the unemployed and the State Government developed into an endurance contest. In the absence of other comforts, the men made themselves as comfortablo as they could by using law books as pillows. While they slept several women devoted their time to sewing and knitting, converting the legislators' desks into improvised work tables. The hunger-strikers to-day spent their sixth day in tho House, their leaders refusing all requests to vacate it and insisting that they intended to remain until funds for relief were raised. During the (lav religious services were held and prayers were "offered for a solution of the unemployment problem. A general call for all unemployed to gather at Trenton was broadcast, and it is expected that by to-morrow there will be 5000 to 10,000 demonstrators in the capital. In a series of resolutions passed by the unemployed they boldly described themselves as "invaders and insurrectionists " and defied the authorities to take any action against them.