SERIOUS RIOT.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20274, 7 April 1934, Page 15

SERIOUS RIOT.

Mob Repeatedly Charge Police. US. UNEMPLOYED PROTEST. United Press Aesn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received April 7. 5.45 p.m.) MINNEAPOLIS, April 6. One of the most serious riots that have yet occurred anvwhere in the country as a result of the cessation of relief provisions for the unemployed, took place here to-day following the arrest of a delegation wearing red arm bands and led by a woman on crutches. They were arrested as they attempted to enter the Town Hall to present their demands for the continuation of the Civil Works Administration and cash relief funds. A fight between police and unemployed ensued, resulting in injury to eighteen persons and the spattering of the sidewalks with blood. Three thousand demonstrators at tempted to rush upon the Town Hall, onlv to be repeatedly repulsed by the police, ten of whom were badly beaten by the mob. The policemen refrained from employing the machine guns mounted near the building, depending chiefly on their batons and tear gas to restrain the rioters. The mob hurled paving blocks, coal and scrap iron from passing vehicles, not only finding police targets, but doing considerable damage to the Town Hall itself.