MAY DAY RIOTS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20536, 3 May 1932, Page 9

MAY DAY RIOTS.

DISTURBANCE IN LONDON. BATON CHARGE BY POLICE. CLASHES ON THE CONTINENT. (UNITED MESS ASSOCIATION—BI ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received May 2nd, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 1. May Day celebrations throughout Europe were practically without incident, London providing one ol: tho few disturbances. A thousnnd Communists, after speeches at Hyde Park, attempted to reach tho Japanese Embassy to protest against the Japanese policy regarding Shanghai. They resented tho police shepherding the procession, so attacked thcin with a volley of stones. Tho police charged with batons, and hand-to-hand lighting ensued, in which the banner-bearers belaboured tho police with tho banner poles. A police inspector was injured in the Inco by a broken bottle. Traffic in all directions was stopped lor an hour. Thousands of pleasureseekers stampeded when tho lighting began, and a heavy rainstorm added to tho confusion Eight arrests were made. Rioting ill Madrid. On May Day, in Madrid, work ceased everywhere, and tho city was paralysed. Cafes, restaurants, shops, theatres, and cinemas were closed, and taxis remained in tho garages. Nowspapers were not published, and broadcasting was suspended. The authorities forbade voluntary staffs working. and prohibited private motors in the streets. The Communists, demonstrating, attacked the mounted police. Hinging fivo off their horses. Armoured cars suppressed the rioting, 50 arrests being made. Communists at Cordoba attacked a church. The Civil Guard intervened, killing one Communist and injuring several. , Tho police and Communists at I Seville exchanged shots, seven being wounded. At Warsaw, two Communists wero killed in n fight with tho police at Dombrowa, n coal-mining centre. Parade in Moscow. Moscow staged tho greatest military parado ever held under the Soviet, thousands of troops and armed civilian.? filing past Lenin's tomb. A fleet of 275 aeroplanes manoeuvred, and hundreds of new tanks and armoured cars testified to the increased mechanisalion of tho-Soviet forces. M. Stalin, who took the salute from the plinth of Lenin's tomb, afterwards stood there all day while a. million citizens paid homage to Lenin. The demonstrations showed that Stalin's ascendancy ia still maintained. • QUIET DAY IN PARIS. OUTBURSTS AT BAYONNE. PARIS, May 1. May Day was tho quietest Labour Day for years. Feeble Communist outbursts, and a score of arrests at Bayonno wore tho only disturbances yet reported in the provinces. Even Paris's "Red Belt'* was peaceful, except tha,t> ono man was shot, and another bludgeoned. Jean Ossola, who was seeking reelection at Belfort, was hastening thither in a racing car, which overturned, killing him and his son-in-law. MELBOURNE RIOT. THE ACTING-PREMIER ASSAULTED. MELBOURNE, May 2. The Trades Hall leaders and the Acting-Premier, Mr T. Tunnecliffc, were assaulted in a riot at tho May Day celebration on the Yarra bank. Mr Tunneeliffe and tho president of the Trades Hall Council, Mr Riley, were pushed ofE a lorry, and, while on tho ground, savagely assaulted by a number of men. A record crowd witnessed the marches through tho city. Tho Communist Party organised a demonstration in opposition to that of the Trades Hall, and the two rival processions marched through the streets. NO DISORDER IN TOKYO. POLICE ESCORT PROCESSION. TOKYO, May 1. May Day in Tokyo passed without incident.' Twelve thousand marched in a procession, escorted by 5000 : police. AMERICA QUIET. i NO SERIOUS TROUBLE REPORTED. COMMUNISTS PARADE IN NEW YORK. (Received May 2nd, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 1. The traditional May Ist International Labour Day was celebrated throughout the Western Hemisphere with unusual quiet. Although demonstrations were held in many cities in South and Central America and the United States, there are as yet no reports of serious trouble. Sixty thousand Communists and sympathisers paraded in« lower New York, but heavy rain kept many spectators away and probably prevented clashes. Three hundred police kept the paraders moving, and guarded the City Hall and other buildings.

Tho demonstrators carried banners domumling free rent, food, and employment, and denounced capitalism. As May Day fell on Sunday, many demonstrations in the United States were held on Maturday.

GREYMOUTH RESOLUTIONS. (press association telegram.) • GEEYMOUTH, May 2. The May Day demonstration, which was attended by about 1000 people, was held at the band rotunda this afternoon, following a procession through tho principal streets, under the auspices of the Unemployed Workers' Movement Speeches were made by Messrs A. McLagan (miners' national secretary), F. Turley and B. Topp (Timber Workers' Union officials), and W. Purdy (secretary of the West Coast Miners' Council), all condemning the Government's wages reduction policy, Arbitration amendment, and taxation measures as unfair to workers. The following resolutions were carried: — "That tho new scheme for the unemployed, which has just been postponed, be postponed for ever."

"That the Government provide work for the unemployed men and women immediately. '' "That we demand the release of the unemployed workers' leaders, and of J. J. Eobinsou, editor of the 'Eed Worker,' and also demand freedom of speech and assembly."