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appeared in court the following day; their. occupations
were given as clerk, silversmith, carpenter# basket
makers braes polieber, metal workers painter and railway
workers. They were almost all young, - in the sixteen
to twenty ago group.
(1)
The*e were not necessarily
representative of the crowd-since younger people might
have been more likely to enga o in violence and thus
to be arreat®dr
In fact the coat badly documented wio ct of the
riots was their composition. Even when certain rioters
werd prosecuted they were more likoly to by the dupes
than the actual organiceru.
There were many attempts
to prove that the real working clues were a minority in
the cc wda. According to New Age the London tiafeking
crowd was mainly youthful composed of clerks# stock
jobbero, corner bolos loafers, hooliCans and female chop
aoniatanto» but with few m4chnnics or tradoo unionioto.
MafokinE night to the S. D. F. wac notablo for drunkenoan
and "licentious indecency" and for largo nutdbar of
(1) Ibid. 20th December-19019
(2) 24th t'Iay 1900,
(2)