LONDON'S UNEMPLOYED
Mass Meeting in Hyde Park. Socialist Leaders. [Reutbb's Telroeams.] LONDON, Fib. 21. A mass meeting of the unemployed was held at Hyde Park to-day, under the auspices of the Socialist organisation. There was an enormous attendance, fully forty thousand persons being present. Speeches were made condemning the proposal to establish relief works for the unemployed. Burns, the leading Socialist, against whom proceedings have been taken in connection with the late disturbance, in the course of his address predicted that bloodshed would ensue unless the social reforms asked for were granted. There was a large force of police on the ground and in the neighbourhood, but their services were not called into requisition, as the assemblage dispersed in an orderly manner.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18860223.2.29
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Issue 5550, 23 February 1886, Page 3
Word Count
122LONDON'S UNEMPLOYED Star (Christchurch), Issue 5550, 23 February 1886, Page 3
Using This Item
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.