THE UNEMPLOYED.
LEADER BEFORE COURT, DEMONSTRATION BY FOLLOWERS. By Telegraph—Pres6 Association —Copyright Australian and X.Z. Cable Association. (Received Nov#u.rncr 2?i. 8.50 a.xu.) LONDON. November 28. A large crowd \ f >,.?j employed marched to the Bow Street Police Court... where the Rev Thomas Pickering, a leader of the unemployed who was arrested in the Strand, was charged with obstructing the police Before the opening *or the court, the marchers sang “ The Red Flag/ 5 but ceased their demonstration at the request of the police. Evidence was given that Pickering, at the head of a procession, refused to obey the police traffic controller. He pushed the traffic controller, shouting to his followers: “Come on. let no one stop us. our bodies are more precious than tlic traffic-.” The constable said that he did his utmost to avoid arresting Pickering, who at the Police Court said: “The matter lias to be threshed out. This is just what I want.” Pickering was bound over for twelve months.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16902, 29 November 1922, Page 6
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