LABOUR MEETING SCENE

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1929, Page 9

LABOUR MEETING SCENE

COMMUNIST SUFFRAGETTES SCREAMS FROM THE GALLERY WOMEN CHAINED TO RAILS By Telegraph—Press .Assn. —Copyright. Australian Press Association. Received Oct. 4, 7.30 p.m. London, Oct. 4. A sensational incident at the conference at Brighton to-day was the revival of suffragette methods in the interests of the Communists. Directly Mr. .J. R. Clynes entered two young women dresse'd in black rose in the gallery and screamed: “Down with Clynes, the persecutor! Release Indian prisoners!”. The stewards were surprised to find both women were securely padlocked to the railings, and it took a quarter of an hour to sever the chains. The women all the time continued shrieking. Finally they were carried out struggling wildly and one of them bleeding. A number of extremist delegates angrily made a scene, protesting against the harshne-ss and cruelty of the stewards, so another quarter of an hour was lost before the business could be resumed. The chairman, Mr. Morrison, condemned male Communists for sending women to do a rough and tumble job and putting women into the firing line instead of coming themselves. ' At the election of officers Mr. Oswald Moseley and Miss Ellen Wilkinson lost their seats on the National Executive.