UGLY TEMPER OF UNEMPLOYED.
Serious Clashes with Police. RIOTERS RIDDEN DOWN. United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—coprrlght PERTH, March 7. Several arrests were made and eight persons were treated in hospital as a result of a violent clash between the unemployed and police outside the Treasury building. The police were forced to draw their batons, and charge the crowd repeatedly to disperse them. The unemployed used stones and pieces of wood in retaliation. Many thousands of citizens watched the conflict from the road and windows of business houses. The disturbance followed a meeting of unemployed, at which demands were made for three meals daily, beds, and free dental and medical attention. Two thousand marched to the Treasury, and in order to free the traffic the police rushed them back. The unemployed, resenting this, commenced to fight. Pickets were torn from the fence of the Government gardens. Mounted men, however, took command, and rode the rioters down. The police casualties were confined to cuts and bruises, though one had his nose broken.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18821, 9 March 1931, Page 7
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171UGLY TEMPER OF UNEMPLOYED. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18821, 9 March 1931, Page 7
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