COMMUNIST FAILURE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 125, 8 March 1930, Page 5

COMMUNIST FAILURE.

"RED THURSDAY" FIASCO. RIOTS QUELLED BY POLICE. United Press Association—Copyright.) ' LONDON.. March G. "Red Thursday," organised throughout the world by Communists as an international Unemployment Day, appears to have achieved nothing beyond several broken heads, suffered here and there in the course of a universal police breaking up of various demonstrations. The whole thing was a fiasco. London's storm centre was Tower Hill, to which was made a bannered procession, and where some 500 gathered. . A section attempted to rush in the direction of Mansion House and came up against a body of mounted police. There was a general melee, in \yhica five people were injured slightly. They finally re-assembled at Tower &11, where Tom Mann flambouyantlyi spoke of cowards and incompetents in the Labour Government. • , At Glasgow 200 made a procession to the city chambers. Two were arrested when attempting to make a speech, and two others who attempted a rescue were also taken into custody, alter which the remainder broke up into groups and- discussed their grievances. In Manchester the police broke up a demonstration and five were arrested. These wore later fined forty shillings each. Reports from all the European centres reveal similar episodes. In Paris the police.were so strongly reinforced that demonstration's were minossible. To give an idea of their watchfulness, three persons sticking bills were arrested. " The Berlin police, 5 with rubber truncheons, rapidly dispersed 2000 who assembled in the centre of the city and began stoning the police, who used revolvers, killing two. At "Warsaw, a handful tried m- vam to stir up a crowd of unemployed.; but were arrested before they were successful. . . . In Vienna, seven were arrested when thov attempted to break through the police cordon. A procession of 1500 demonstrators was jeered.

NO DISORDER IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, March 7. The observation of international unemployment dav was held without disorder'of any kind. It opened with a parade of 4000 marchers, which quietly moved through the streets without an.v attempt to proceed to the City Hall. FIGHTING IN UNITED STATES. MONTREAL, March 7. _ Reports from tyewhaven, (Connecticut), indicated that the noting there had been attended by considerable fighting. Several persons were injured the pohV dispelling the rioters, borne fear was felt that the demonstrators might attack the City Hall, which was locked against invasion. In New York there were 50,000 celebrants, and in Detroit 75,000. Other North American cities where rioting and demonstrations occurred were Cleveland, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Seattle. Oakland, and Toronto. In all of these cities there was some fighting between the police and the demonstrators.