Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-02
LooterS Renew Disorders
After $4,000 JobIeSS Fight
With Police.
BATTLERS WELD CLUBS,
HATCHETS AND BOTTLES
Mob Breaks Into Stores and Takes
Focd-Many, Including Three
Policemen, in Hospitals.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
GLASGOW, Scotland, October a.
John McGovern, Labor member OF
Parliament, who was suspended from
the House Of Commons after q rough
and tumble fight last July, is in jail
and Glasgow streets are Uttered with
wreckage left by last nights unprec-
edented rioting by the unemployed.
Fifty thousand jobless men put up q
vicious fight when police tried to disperSe
them in the night, and early this
morning the rioting started again when
police tried to check a mob of loot
ers breaking down store doors and
stealing whatever they could lay their
hands on.
They fought with clubs. with ham,
mers, hatchets and crowbars. They
swung bottles at the heads OF the police
on foot, and only the charges OF
mounted men could drive them back.
lombard Police.
People leaned from second-sto-y win
dows, bombarding the police with
chunks of broken furniture, and before
the night was over many were in hos
pitfalls, including at least three police
men.
The looting today began while most
of the police were concentrated on the
Glasgow green, where last nights most
serious fighting took place. Merchants
came running to report that the mobs
were in their stores. and mounted
police came at the gallop.
Sometimes they would surprise the
hooters, but as they drove them of
showers of canned goods, jars OF JAM
even leaves Of bread and eggs were
thrown. The litter was still in the
streets this afternoon. for the police
were on guard against a further out
break.
McGovern Arraigned.
They went about the city helping
store owners and peaceful citizens to
put up their shutters, TO board up the
broken windows and doors, but up
to the middle of this afternoon there
had been no more trouble.
McGovern and IL others were ar
raigned today on a charge OF form
ing part Of disorderly crowd. threat
ening violence and committing a breach
of the peace" They were sent to jail
until tomorrow. when they will be tried
Al AOilAOIA dLl0 oIlSbOl
peacefully showed their antagonism TO
the governments economy measures by
parading with signs reading, mot a
penny off the dole" Down with the
national government" and we sup
port our naval comrades" referring to
the recent naval mutiny over pay re-
auctions. Police were not called on to
interfere.
Repression Charged.
Charges of repression" were hurled
s;stance were made by a group of Left
wing Laborites from the Clydeside
district in the House of Commons to-
day as a sequel to the rioting. in Glas-
gov.
David Kirkwood led the group in re-
fusing to accept the denial of Secretary
for Scotland Archibald Sinclair that no
measures of repression we're being in
voked against unemployed persons who
battled with police and looted stores.
Shouting he would go to Glasgow
himself and defy the law, Kirkwood
said: You will have to take our lives
or we will take yours. You can do any
thing you like. Do you think We are
going to stand for our people being
batoned?"
The speaker took cognizance OF
Kirkwood's outbreak and the House
ouieted down without further fireworks
Demonstrators Dispersed.
DORTMUND Germany, october
LP)-CommunistS attempting a demon.
stration to incite strikes we're dispersed
yesterday by police.
DUISBURG, Germany, october 2 (P
oh nra
crowds of Communists assembled II
various parts of the city in connection
with the turbulent strikes at nearby
coal mines. Bands of demonstration!