FASHION PARADE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 9

FASHION PARADE

SCENE ON FIFTH AVENUE

MASSES MIMIC CLASSES

NEW YORK, 5 tli April

While Fifth avenue was crowded with celebrities and social leaders arrayed in Easter finery in the usual "style parade" following observances in the leading churches, an extraordinary detail to the pageant was provided by professional exponents of industrial and social unrest. Scores of men and women,.dressed m battered silk hats and ragged clothes, pushed their way through the crowds carrying banners inscribed: "Curse those who grind the faces of the poor. . . " Dressmakers who make your beautiful dresses are in rags." . . • "Jesus said, 'Woe to thfc Men.' " Swinging splintered canes and waving crushed top-hats, a group under the leadership of "Mr. Zero," a noted social worker and labour agitator, in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral, • became involved in a noisy and disorderly clash with the police, in which minor injuries were received on both sides, but the police refused to make arrests. The fashionable paraders meanwhile continued to stroll on the sidewalks, amuacd but otherwise unperturbed.