The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-31
TAXI BACKFIRE
STARTS LONDON
JOBLESS RIOT
$1,000 Battle Police When
Auto Noise Is Taken
for Gunflre.
BY HERBERT MOORE
United Press stan Correspondent

United Press Stan Correspondent
LONDON, oct. 3l-At least a
sore Of persons were injured Sun
day when $1,000 hungry, jobless men
All women, engaged in peaceful
dc -nonstration, started rioting after
taxicabs backfire was mistaken
&C. gunfire.
Among the injured was an elderly
W man trampled by a police horse,
in the battle which climaxed the
dc nonstration in Trafalgar square
rs in last Thursdays Hyde park
ri,t, police charged relentleSsly
,Iw en- the demonstrators got out OF
h; nd. Their truncheons subdued the
RI sers.
The hunger army" presented an
III lmatum to government and mu-
ni,ipal authorities today, threaten
in serious trouble unless they are
allowed to present their petition for
relief to the house of commons.
Trip Home Is Delayed
The jobless agitators threatened
to remain in London indefinitely
st ge repeated demonstrations to
Ell ist public support, and hold their
pr sent temporary lodgings by force,
If necessary.
The marchers spent today in
We ding various boroughs and partici-
pc ing in mass meetings, so that
800 ice were reinforced, and put on
the alert throughout greater Lon
den.
Originally, the marchers were
scheduled to begin their journey
hcmeward afoot and by rail after
Tuesday.
Since police served notice that
none of them would be allowed to
approach within a mile of parlia-
ment, their original objective, the
organizers decided that the march,
ers should assemble on Clerkenwell
green and chose thirty leaders to
accompany twenty elected rep
resentatives of local trade unions
in march on commons.
Taxi Backfires, Starts Riot
Organizers at headquarters of the
marchers said
IF the police balk the deputa-
ton, we can't say what will happen.
1t is certain that some of the
marchers will not be inundated
since they have already proved
their mettle and behaved with dis
cipline better than that of the po-
lice"
The cabinet held a special meet
ing today, presumably to discuss the
unemployment situation as we'll as
the new French arms plan.
~ An opportunity for the unem
ployed to present their cause to
commons without disorder was pre-
sented today when 1t was said on
high authority that the police we're
unlikely to interfere if the delegates
visited parliament in small num-
bers, particularly in small, we'll
behaved groups of four or five.
The Sunday meeting began with
speeches, in which one orator asked
for contributions Of one-pound
notes. After collecting all the notes
offered, he asked for smaller con-
2 tributions. He was fairly showered
with copper and silver coins.
Then a taxicab backfired. The
crowd surged forward, started mill
ing about, and the mounted police
went into action.
Block Way to Palace
Several hundred young trouble
makers, thinking an outbreak had
occurred, surged toward the al
miral arch. It's three iron gates,
leading to The Mall and Bucking-
ham palace, were changed shut.
Any attempt to rush the palace
thus was forestalled. A guarding
line of foot police was drawn in
front Of the gates. AS several hot
heads milled around, shouting,
Smash the windows of the palAce,"
they were dispersed by O charge of
mounted police.
\ One ragged, emaciated man was
beaten over the head by police un-
til he was unconscious. When he.
an old man with gray beard, was
taken to a hospital, doctors said he
had conclusion of the brain and
might not live.
The unemployed masses exercised
their usual system of warfare,
throwing rocks. bricks, clods and
whatevefthey could lay their hands
on, at the police.
Several officers were knocked frc9s
their horses beneath the heroic