UNIONISTS PARADE IN NEW YORK
(Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 1. In the first May Day parade for five yfars, thousands of labour unionists, including some uniformed servicemen, marched down Manhattan’s Eighth Avenud. Eight participants in the parade were arrested and charged with desecrating the American flag by carrying it flat so that coins could be dropped into it to aid the families of strikers. At the same time the national committee of the Communist Party published a statement in the “Daily Worker” calling on workers, veterans, farmers, negroes, women and youths to protest against the drive by truita and monopolies for a war against the Soviet , . Five hundred uniformed Army and Navy veterans, including ■3O officers, marched at the head of the Communist party contingent, and at least 3500 servicemen paraded with the various unions.
The dominant theme of the banners and placards was that reactionaries were trying to provoke another war with Britain and America ranged against the Soviet
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24865, 3 May 1946, Page 7
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