THE LONDON SOCIALISTS.
40,000 UNEMPLOYED IN HYDE PARK. JiELIEP WOBKi CONDEMNED. A LEADING SOCIALIST PROPHECIES BLOODSHED. ORDERLY DISPERSION OP THE CROWD. (HEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) (Received February 22, 7.80 p.m.) London, February 21. A mass meeting of unemployed was held in Hyde Park to-day, under the auspices of the Sooi*liat organisation. There was an euormoiu attendance, fully forty thousand persons being present. Speeches were made condemning the proposal to establish relief works for the unemployed, Bumes, the leading ••Socialist, against whom proceedings have been taken in connection with the late disturbances, in the course of his speech predioted that bloodshed would ensue, unless the social reforms asked for were granted. There was a strong 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.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11135, 23 February 1886, Page 2
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138THE LONDON SOCIALISTS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11135, 23 February 1886, Page 2
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