BAILIFF RESISTED

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 January 1932, Page 5

BAILIFF RESISTED

ACTION BY UNEMPLOYED. WELLINGTON, Friday. A bailiff, or distrainor, who visited a house in Vivian Street this morning with the intention of executing a landlord’s distraint for rent under the Distress and Replevin Act met with organised resistance.

Apparently the tenants had sought the assistance of members of the Unemployed Workers’ Movement. The bailiff was refused admittance, the door being kept locked in his face, and finally not being in possession of an eviction order, he left the premises. On the front door of the house, chalked up in bold block letters, was the following:—“U.W.M. ” (representing the Unemployed Workers’ Movement), and underneath: “No evictions of unemployed. Defend the workers’ homes.” A crowd of unemployed men, and others attracted by the happening, collected outside the house, and two men, presumably members of the Unemployed Workers’ Movement, who were inside the house, later climbed through the top window on to the roof of the porch, and addressed those assembled in front of the house. The police were called, but there was no disorderly scene, and no arrests were made.