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Show 3 HURT, 20 HELD WHEN PARADERS BATTLEP0LICE Fighting Bre'aka aa Croup Begins Be-gins March to Demand Relief WASHINGTON. March At least three persona ware Injured and 10 arreeted today In fighting between police and demons trelors at about tha 'I me President Roosevelt waa telling District of Columbia commissioners he did not obect to any parade that did not interfere with normal traffic Tha fighting broke out when a group of whites and blacks, with negroes ne-groes predominant, set out from a meeting hall on Eleventh street to marrh to the District building to demand de-mand larger relief allowances and equal treatment of whites and blacks. They had been warned by Inspector Albert J. Headley that they would not be permuted to parade, and as they proceeded In the face of tha earning were charged bv police assembled as-sembled along tha Una of march. Banners serried by tha demonstrators, demonstra-tors, demanding IS weekly relief allowances al-lowances and equal treatment of negroes ne-groes and whites, were seised In the police rush and mora than a score went down or were captured la lha rush of flailing clubs. In response to the Inquiries from tha city government heads, Mr. Roosevelt had said: -If tha parade can ba conducted without Interfering with normal tral-llc, tral-llc, I see no reason why it should not be held." However, before the commission-era commission-era could art on the parade permit, the demonstrators had proceeded in their attempted march. It was made clear by tha president, presi-dent, who aent hut word to tha commissioners com-missioners through Stephen T. Early, a secretary, thai ha Intended the word parade to mean a parade and not a license lor street comer demonstrations, |