DISORDERS IN AMERICA
NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA BATON CHARGES BY POLICE. NEW YORK,- April 21. Disorder broke out on Thursday afternoon at a demonstration for unemployed relief at the City Hall, when a group of several hundred Communists broke through the police lines. The police instantly charged the crowd, and “ black jacks ” and batons were swung repeatedly on the heads of the demonstrators.
A Philadelphia message states that a score of people were injured and 23 others, six of them women, were arrested on Thursday, when the police broke up two groups of marchers in what was termed by the authorities a plot to mass radicals for a march on the City Hall. Three policemen wore injured.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21627, 23 April 1932, Page 11
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