HUNGER MARCHERS' RIOT

Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1930, Page 11

HUNGER MARCHERS' RIOT

SCUFFLE AT WHITEHALL

HOUSE OF COMMONS SCENES

POLICE GIVE SHORT SHRIFT By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, May 6. After failure to interview Mr. MacDonald, a body, of hunger-marchers assembled late this afternoon at the members’ entrance to the House of Commons, escorted by a large body of mounted and foot police. While those in the courtyard sang tlie ‘‘Red Flag . 20 of the leaders entered the House for the alleged purpose of interviewing their members. ■ ' . , While the conversations - and interviews were ■ proceeding about a dozen: men raised a sudden shout and rushed down the central hall to the inner lobby. The police stopped the rush and, after a few minutes’ scuffle, the party was ignominiously run out of the building, the police holding them by the- scruff of their necks. Kight were arrested. Another party outwitted the police at' Whitehall and managed to get into the Minister of Health,. where they locked themselves in a room, shouting and creating a disturbance until the police •broke in and.ejected them after a short struggle.