CONFISCATED.
UNEMPLOYED PETITION HELD BY POLICE. Taken from Cloak-room. PANDEMONIUM BREAKS OUT AT WORKHOUSE. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received November 3,2 p.m.) LONDON, November 2. It is now disclosed that the one-million-signature petition which the hunger marchers yesterday attempted to lodge at the House of Commons was deposited in the cloak-room at Charing Cross Station when the deputation was turned back. The marchers to-day presented their receipt and asked for the return of the petition, but were informed that the police had called last night and confiscated the document. Pandemonium occurred at Fulham Workhouse, where the County Council is housing and feeding 600 of the unemployed at a cost of £l5O daily. The casual inmates resented the fact that the hunger-marchers were allowed to buy rump steak and tobacco to supplement their rations. They demanded their inclusion in the ordinary rations and refused to do the tasks allotted them.
One hundred and forty police arrived and arrested 50, of whom seventeen were charged with refusing to work.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 601, 3 November 1932, Page 9
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168CONFISCATED. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 601, 3 November 1932, Page 9
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