QUIET MAY DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 9

QUIET MAY DAY.

Practically Uneventful In Europe. "RED PLAG" ANGERS A BULL. LOJTDON, May 2. May Day passed quietly in most of the European centres. Hunger strikers had been converging on London for a fortnight, to take part in a demonstration in Hyde Park, organised by Communist demonstrators, including Lascars and other non-Europeans. These made a procession through the streets singing the "Red Flag," and the Internationale. Among the numerous banners and slogan, one, borne by children, 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 will be a general holiday, to enable the people to recover from their May Day exertions. From Berlin it is reported that there were no disturbances but members of a proletarian flying club flew over the procession, 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 the demonstrators in Czecho-Slovakia. In Vienna the police used their truncheons on Communists bearing seditious banners, and arrested 25 of them. A bull, infuriated by the sight of red flags, dispersed a procession at Wolkowsk, Poland, near the Eussian border.

ARRESTS IN AMERICA. FOUR COMMUNISTS HURT. NEW YORK, May 2. j With the exception of Oakland, California, where four parading Communists were seriously injured by the police in a charge, the May Day demonstrations in various cities in the United States were generally without incident. From Boston it is reported that many children took part in a parade there, which was without disorder. At Philadelphia the Town Hall was guarded by the police while Communists held a demonstration close by. Two Communists were arrested at Schenectady, New York State, for handing out "Red" literature. A few arrests were made at Newark, New Jersey. Sporadic fights resulting from Communist demonstrations in various parts of New York City resulted in 50 arrests. None of the disturbances were of any considerable proportions.