Battle of Cable Street
Battle of Cable Street (English Battle of Cable Street ) are called the violent clashes during a demonstration of supporters of the British Union of Fascists in the Cable Street in the East End of London on 4 October 1936. The about 3000 supporters of fascists led by Oswald Mosley and accompanied by a large contingent of the Metropolitan Police Service. The police forces should enable the planned end of the demonstration, but what the numerous counter-demonstrators prevented. The march of the fascists was eventually canceled.
Background
In London's East End, many factory and dock workers had become unemployed during the Great Depression in 1929. Both left - and right-wing parties were given the strong inflow. Oswald Mosley had introduced black uniforms for his party members and wanted to let this black shirts on the nature of the marches camicie nere in Italy or the Nazi German SA or SS march through the Jewish quarter of the east end.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews advised Jews, potential disputes in connection with the march to stay away if they are not " the Jews agitators help " wanted. Even the Communist Party initially tried to prevent their members from a direct confrontation, and applied with leaflets a separate rally at Trafalgar Square - but the sheets were overprinted with the new meeting place Aldgate.
Course
Even before the demonstration a large number of counter-demonstrators at Aldgate be collected. The fascists took - already accompanied by mocking chants and boos of the crowd - at different places -up to keep the planned route of the march secret. Among other things, they met to follow at the junctions of Commercial Road and Whitechapel Road and Leman Street, but eventually at the Royal Mint Street with the intention of there towards the east of Cable Street through the East End. Mosley met with a delay of one and a half hours about 15:30 clock, and the demonstration was to begin, but the counter-demonstrators had become known by a mole in the police force and they built barricades in the streets of the planned route. The amount of counter-demonstrators had grown to more than 300,000 people. It was composed mainly of Jews, Communists, trade unionists, Irish Catholic dockers and other inhabitants of the east end, including women and children. They blocked the road and called the Blackshirts " They Shall Not Pass " to the English transfer of the anti -Franco slogans No pasaran (you will not get through ) of the Spanish Civil War. Blackshirts and more than 10,000 police officers were pelted with debris and paving stones, the security forces used their batons, 4000 policemen on horseback were called in as reinforcements and tried unsuccessfully to break through the blockades by force. The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Sir Philip Game, decided to cancel the demonstration after a short time. The Blackshirts were diverted to the west and moved under heavy police protection and persecuted by the amount of counter-demonstrators along the Thames Embankment, to be divided the demonstration and disintegrated. It still came sporadic skirmishes.
Follow
The issued by Scotland Yard police report the following day speaks of 84 arrests, later sources from over 150 Most were sentenced to a fine of five pounds because of the disability of the police forces, some leaders but because of involvement in a brawl to three months' hard labor. Fifteen injured dozens of others of " about five hundred members of the St. John Ambulance" were treated at the Royal London Hospital.
The British Union of Fascists, which had lost much of its members already before 1936 went further weakened emerge from the confrontation.
The clashes in the Cable Street were the main reasons for the Public Order Act 1936, which, inter alia wearing political uniforms was forbidden.
A plaque in the Dock Street and in 1993 completed mural on the side of St. George 's Town Hall today to remember the event.