New-York tribune., 1920-10-20
Police
Kept Busy With
Much Rioting
Sporadic Outbreaks i'm Manv
Parts of Capital Form
Aftermath of Disorders
Monday in Whitehall St.
All Parades Broken Up
Unemployed Assemble for.
Raid on Bow St. Station,
but Are Quickly Dispersed
IRON Tho Trioume's European Bureou
Copyright, 1920 New York rrihuns Inc

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LONDON, Oct. 19.-Sporadic rioting
IN widely separated parts of the city
to-day formed the aftermath of yes
terday's disorders in Whitehall Street.
where the police clashed with mob of
unemployed men and women. The coun-
terpart of yesterdays demonstration
was seen on the crowded streets to-
day, with the jobless again making
their protests.
Inere was sinister feeling of un-
rest in the air and the presence of
large number of policemen in the
streets and around public buildings
added to the tension. Parliament will
debate the unemployment situation
Thursday.
Mounted Police Stoned
Although the parades of the unem-
ployed had no direct connection with
the miners strike, many of those in
the crowds in Downing Street and
around the houses of Parliament, which
were kept moving by the police, were
men and women who had been forced
into idleness by the closing of fac
tories because of the coal shortage
The only demonstration near the House
of Parliament was the silent protest
made by pickets carrying banners in
behalf of Ireland.
This morning crowd of Jews, said
to have been incensed by suggestion
in newspaper that they caused the
disorders yesterday, threw mud and
stones at the mounted police outside of
the Labor Exchange at Whitechapel in
the East End. One man was arrested.
out to obtain the mans release, but
police reinforcements were called and
they dispersed.
Another procession of unemployed
and their followers formed in Trafalgar
Square this afternoon and started for
the Bow Street police station, where
persons arrested in yesterdays out
break in Whitehall Street were tried.
The mob intended to raid the station,
but before it had gone more than half
way from the square it was stopped by
a strong police force.
All afternoon there were crowds in
Trafalgar Square. Many attempts were
made to hold meetings, but all were
broken up by the police. 1t was eve
ming before the police had succeeded
in clearing the square and the side
streets
Riot at Hammersmith
A deputation representing the uncm-
the London County Council The hear-
ing was interrupted by disorder in the
crowd in the galleries. The council
promised to name committee to con-
slider Premier Lloyd Georges sugges-
tion that it cooperate in providing
work.
The Premier made a long statement
in the House of Commons late this aft
ernoon, outlining the governments
program for aiding the unemployed
servicemen. He said that many could
be put at road making and that the
government had decided that large
numbers could be employed in the
building trades if the unions would al
ter their rules.
Hammersmith was the scene OF a
demonstration this morning by mon
out of work. A delegation of them
called on the Mayor of the borough
who told them that the Borough Co1n-
Gil was not able to relieve the distress
caused by unemployment.
The trial in Bow Street of the nine
men arrested in Whitehall Street yes
terday resulted in the sending of one
man to prison for two months and thS
filming and reprimanding of the others
At the trials it was brought out that
$50 windows had been broken in White
hall Street alone and many others in
side streets.