LITTLE SUPPORT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18332, 26 February 1934, Page 7

LITTLE SUPPORT

MARCH ON LONDON PUBLIC NOT IMPRESSED POLICE PRECAUTIONS e (British Official Wireless.) Rec. noon. RUGBY, Feb. 24. The progress of the unemployed marchers through the country has been orderly. Special police precautions have been taken in connection with the Hyde Park demonstration. Speeches will be delivered from eight platforms, and resolutions protesting against the Unemployment Bill will be submitted. After the demonstration, the marchers will disperse, but meetings in the suburbs will be held later. In .the course of a reply to the request of the demonstrators lor an interview, Mr. .Ramsay MacDonald said: “The Government is responsible for the bill, which, when in operation, will facilitate more satisfactory treatment of the whole question of unemployment. The bill is now receiving consideration by the House of Commons, composed of members whose knowledge and experience enable them to discuss the best way to achieve the objectives of the Government.” The. hunger marchers’ demonstration promises to he an even greater fiasco than last year. The public are convinced ol its futility. The marchers arrived at Croydon, but,found nobody waiting. A Scots cbntingent at Edmonton was welcomed and entertained, but others find no encouragement. Nothing has been done to provide sleeping accommodation. The marchers reaching YVillesden denounced the Socialist Borough Council and Hie Labor Party, -declaring that but for the churches they would not. have had a place in which to sleep. The principal speakers at Sunday’s demonstration at Hyde Park were -Messrs. J. McGovern, E. Maxton and E. Bevan, M.Ps,, also Mr. Wall Hanningten and Miss Ellen Wilkinson, a former Libor M.P.

Signatories to a letter asking the Cabinet to receive a deputation iucluded Mr, Harry Pollitt and Mr. Tom Mann, who was also arrested on a charge similar to that preferred agamst. Pollitt. Both are expected to appear at Pontypridd Police Court.