MAY DAY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 171, 3 May 1930, Page 5

MAY DAY.

EUROPE GENERALLY QUIET.

BULL DISPERSES PROCESSION

(United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, May 1.

May Day passed quietly in most of the European centres. Hunger strikers had been converging on London durum the past fortnight to take part in a Hyde Park demonstration organised by Communists. The demonstrators, including Lascars and other non-Europeans, made a procession through the streets singing “The Red Flag” and “Internationale. Among the numerous banners and slogans was one borne by Red children, winch read “Down with caning in school.” In Moscow the streets were filled all day with demonstrators carrying effigies of the Pope and decrying French and British statesmen. To-morrow has been declared a general holiday to enable the people to recover from May Day exertions. Berlin reports no disturbances, but members of the Proletariat 1* lying Club Hew over the .processions, and one machine, by the irony of Fate, made a forced landing in the police athletic field. Quiet prevailed in Paris, where the police made 223 precautionary arrests. A number of persons were injured in scuffles between the police and demonstrators in Czecho-Slovakia. In Vienna the police used their batons on Communists bearing seditious banners, and arrested twenty-five, A bull, infuriated by the sight of red flags, dispersed the ‘procession at \Yolkow.ski, Poland, near the Russian border, INCIDENTS IN AMERICA. SOME SPORADIC FIGHTS. NEW YORK, April 1. With the exception of Oakland (California), where four parading Communists were seriously injured by a police charge, May Day demonstrations in the various cities of the .United States were generally without incident. Reports', from Boston state that many children were in the parade there, which was without disorder. The Philadelphia Town Hall was guarded by the police, while Communists held a demonstration nearby. Two Communists were seized in Schenectady, while handing out Red literature, and a lew arrests were made in Newark (New Jersey).

Sporadic fights, resulting from Communists’ demonstrations in various parts of New York City, were resuoMsible for oO arrests. None of the disturbances was of considerable proportions.