Socialist Meeting in London.
FORTY THOUSAND PERSONS PRESENT BLOODSHED PREDICTED. London, Ftbrnury 31. A mass meeting of unemployed was held in Hyde Park to-day under the auspices of tue Socialist organisation. There was an enormous attendance, fully 40,000 persons being present. Speeches were made condemning the proposal to establish relief works lor the unemployed. Burns, a leading Socialist, against whom proceedings have been taken in connection with the late disturbances, 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 neighborhood, but tbeir services were not called ioto requisition, as the assemblage dispersed in an orderly manner.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1799, 24 February 1886, Page 3
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119Socialist Meeting in London. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1799, 24 February 1886, Page 3
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