COMMONS DISTURBED
MARCHERS DEMONSTRATE SHOUTS FROM GALLERY SEVERAL CARRIED OUT (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received March 2, 3 p.m.) LONDON, March 1. Unemployed marchers caused a disturbance in the House of 'Commons in the middle of the debate on the Russian .agreement in a thin House. A man rose in the public gallery and shouted: “The hunger marchers must bo received here.” When attendants rilshed up, other unemployed marchers rose in various parts of the gallery arid cried: “Down With the starvation Government. ’ ’ Then, a woman rose in the ladies’ gallery and shrieked: “Down with the Government.’’ The male disturbers were well distributed among the public, and it. took sonic time for the attendants to reach arid eject them. Several struggled so violently that they had .almost to be carried out. Others shouted: “We have waited patiently. We are now fed up with constitutionalism. If we .-are not received at the bar of the House we will go back to the country and rouse the people.” There were further scenes later iu the ev'ening, trouble arising with more shouts from the galleries. Thirteen persons wore ejected, and confined in the police rooms. All were released at .11.45 p.m., after the rising of the House.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19340302.2.148
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18336, 2 March 1934, Page 11
Word Count
205COMMONS DISTURBED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18336, 2 March 1934, Page 11
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in