UNUSUALLY QUIET
MAY DAY IN THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, May 2. May Day was unusually quiet both in North and South America.
Ten thousand people paraded in Brooklyn without a sign of disorder.
At Toronto, GOOO participants in a celebration in the park clashed, first with collcge students and then with rival factions. One student's nose was broken and two girls were scratchcd and bruised. Order was restored quicklv.
In Buenos Aires sympathisers with rival Spanish factions fought with fists and guns in the midst of a parade. Nine were wounded and a woman died of a heart attack caused by the excitement,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 102, 3 May 1938, Page 10
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103UNUSUALLY QUIET Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 102, 3 May 1938, Page 10
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