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“On this day, 5 April 1932 in Newfoundland, a crowd of 10,000 people demonstrated outside the central government building in protest at price increases and pension cuts. Police attacked the demonstrators, clubbing a child in the...

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 5 April 1932 in Newfoundland, a crowd of 10,000 people demonstrated outside the central government building in protest at price increases and pension cuts. Police attacked the demonstrators, clubbing a child in the head, and got more than they bargained for. One officer was pulled from his horse and beaten, while the mob smashed up the building, setting fire to it and storming it in search of the Prime Minister. A group of police and priests attempted to get the PM to safety, but he was cornered a couple of times, once punched in the face, before he managed to escape. Then the demonstrators set about looting all the downtown liquor stores, and the government subsequently collapsed. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/1958002017718272/?type=3

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