AMERICAN UNEMPLOYED
SEVERAL DEMONSTRATIONS. COMMUNIST AGITATORS BUSY. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, February 10. (Received Feb. 11, at 5.5 p.m.) Unemployment demonstrations took place throughout the country to-day, and brought police interference in several cities, including Boston and Oakland, but Generally the gatherings were quiet, officials sympathetically receiving demands presented by the unemployed. Communist agitators appeared to have arranged demonstrations on a wide scale, and one of the principal demands was the enactment of the Federal Unemployment Insurance Law. A Communist demonstration on Boston Common was broken up by the police, and 12 people were arrested, including two women and two clergymen, who obiected to the police methods. Forty policemen charged a parade which was marching to the City Hall at Oakland, and broke it up. In Washington a Communist delegation which marched on the Capitol was refused permission to appear on the floor of the House, but was admitted to the public gallery.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21258, 12 February 1931, Page 9
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