Show DEMAND DUTY ON HOPS British Growers and nd Laborers Hold Big Demonstration D London May Ma 16 A great army arm of or men and women interested In the hop industry in England estimated to number more than held a demonstration In Tra Trafalgar Trafalgar Trafalgar square this thin afternoon In favor of ot Imposing a duty of 10 on every evet hundred hundredweight hundredweight hundredweight weight of hops Imported Into this coun country country try tn Special trains brought in thousands from Kent Sussex Hampshire Worcester and amI Herford the great hop growing coun countries countrIes countries tries while the east end of London whence emanate almost all the hop pick pickers pickers ers furnished a contingent perhaps twice larger than the growers and laborers from the provinces After being marshaled in Victoria embankment the tha demonstrators with banners flying and bands playing marched to the square where Englishmen with a grievance always have been accustomed accustomed accustomed tomed to assemble Speakers from half halt halfa a dozen platforms harangued the multi multitude multitude multitude tude on the ruin of or the industry through the dumping of ot American hops into Eng England England England land and resolutions were werf adopted by ac acclamation acclamation acclamation calling upon the government not to delay In helping to reestablish r the industry and placing a duty on all im imported Imported imported ported hops |