MAY DAY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 52, Issue 171, 3 May 1932, Page 6

MAY DAY

GROWING resentment,

CANAPJAN “REDS” UNPOPULAR

ATTITUDE OF THE PUBLIC.

(United Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.30 p.m.) VANCOUVER, May 2.

A growing resentment against the Reds was a feature of the May Day demonstrations throughout the Dominion.

At Timmins (Ontario) the police were forced to restrain spectators who were determined to break up a Communists’ parade. At Vancouver the Reds’ attacks on the Mayor, public officials and police are a situation wherein a number of organisations aie offeiing to handle the Reds and challenge them to hold a prohibited parade on Saturday.

AMERICA UNUSUALLY QUIET.

NEW YORK, May 1. The/traditional International Labour Day was celebrated throughout the American Continent with unusual quiet. Although demonstrations were , held in many cities of South and CenA" tral America and the United States, there are as yet no reports of serious trouble; ‘'; . ' . A crowd of 60,000 Communists and their sympathisers paraded i n lower New York, But heavy rain kept many spectators away and probably P*’ e * " vented clashes. A force of 300 police kept the paraders moving. They also guarded City Hall and other buildings. The demonstrators carried banners demanding free rent, food and employ- - ment and' denouncing capitalism.

As May Day fell on a Sunday, many demonstrations in the United States were held yesterday.