Editing Battle of Cable Street (section)

==Numbers involved==
Very large numbers of people took part in the events, in part due to the good weather, but estimates of the numbers of participants vary enormously:
* Estimates of Fascist participants range from 2,000 to 3,000, up to 5,000.<ref name="London, The Autobiography"/><ref name=jones>Jones, Nigel, ''Mosley'', Haus, 2004, p. 114</ref> The Fascists had a casualty dressing station at their Tower Hill assembly point.<ref name="London, The Autobiography"/>
* There were 6,000–7,000 policemen, including the whole of the [[Metropolitan Police Mounted Branch|Metropolitan Police Mounted Division]].<ref name="London, The Autobiography"/><ref name=jones/><ref name="The East End, Than and Now">{{cite book|title=The East End, Then and Now|pages=381–389|first=Winston G.|last= Ramsey|publisher=Battle of Britain Prints International Limited|year=1997|isbn=0-900913-99-1}}</ref> The police had wireless vans and a spotter plane<ref name="London, The Autobiography"/> sending updates on crowd numbers and movements to Philip Game's HQ, at Tower Hill.<ref name="The East End, Than and Now">{{cite book|title=The East End, Then and Now|pages=381–389|first=Winston G.|last= Ramsey|publisher=Battle of Britain Prints International Limited|year=1997|isbn=0-900913-99-1}}</ref>
* Estimates of the number of anti-fascist counter-demonstrators range from 100,000<ref name="London, The Autobiography"/><ref>{{cite book |last=Marr |first=Andrew |title=The Making of Modern Britain |publisher=Macmillan |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-230-70942-3 |pages=317–318 |author-link=Andrew Marr}}</ref> to 250,000,<ref>{{cite web|title=The official interpretation board at the Cable Street mural (image)|url=https://www.weekendnotes.co.uk/im/003/01/july-2014-35941.jpg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118193704/https://www.weekendnotes.co.uk/im/003/01/july-2014-35941.jpg|archive-date=18 January 2023|date=July 2014}}</ref> 300,000,<ref name=ilpcover/> 310,000, or more.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/Cable-Street-book.pdf|pages=11–12|title=THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET - They shall not pass - AN ACCOUNT OF WORKING CLASS STRUGGLES AGAINST FASCISM|first=Peta|last=Steel|date=November 2017|publisher=Southern and Eastern Region of the [[Trades Union Congress]]|quote=The News Chronicle claimed that some 310,000 people had been there, though other witnesses claimed the figure had been nearer to half a million.}}</ref> The [[Independent Labour Party]] and Communists, like the Fascists, set up medical stations to treat their injured.<ref name="London, The Autobiography"/>