BRITISH UNEMPLOYMENT
MASS MEETING OF WORKERS. DEPUTATION DECIDED ON. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright London, March 4. To enable the workers to reply to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald a mass meeting in support of the hunger marchers was held in Trafalgar Square this afternoon, thousands marching to the scene from all parts of London. A strong force of police isolated the square and kept traffic circulating. The proceedings were orderly, apart from apples and fireworks being thrown at the mounted police. The speakers, including Mr. Tom Mann and Mr. Pollitt, delivered addresses from the plinth of the Nelson Column. Mr. Wai Hannington also spoke. The meeting resolved to send a deputation to the Government regarding the Unemployment Bill. The demonstrators marched off in a slight drizzle.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1934, Page 7
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