MAY DAY IN AMERICA
GUN BATTLE IN HAVANA
NEW YORK, May 2. In practically all large cities Radical and Labour elements observed May Day, but, with tho exception of a gun battle in Havana no serious disorders were reported.
In New York, Socialists and Communists held separate parades, the police keeping them apart.
The Havana trouble started when a sniper from the top of a building fired on a parade of 10,000 Communist workmen, some of whom returned the fire, whereupon troops dispersed the mob with machine-guns and gas bombs. No one is known to have been killed, but many were injured.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 11
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102MAY DAY IN AMERICA Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 11
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