MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 20474, 3 May 1930, Page 15

MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS

REPORTS FROltf EUROPEAN i CENTRES EFFJGIES OF THE POPE IN MOSCOW PrMft ■ AMOcijition— Bj Telegraph —Copyright. . LONDON, May 1. May Day .passed quietly in most European centres. . Hunger strikers have been converging on London during the past fortnight to participate in the Hyde Eark dcmpstration organised by Communists. Demonstrators, including lascars and other non-Europeans, made a procession through the-streets, singing, ‘The Red Flag ’ and • Internationale.’ ‘Among numerous banners and slogans one, home by “ Rod'” children, i ead ‘*. Down. with - caning in schoo 1. ” In Moscow the streets wore 'filled all day with demonstrators carrying effigies of the Tope and , French and British statesmen. To-morrow has been dea generM holiday to enable the people to recover from their May Day exertions. ■ ■ * Berlin ; reports that there were no disturbances,' but members of the Proffi-; tarian Flying Club flew over the processions, and one machine, by the irony of fate, made a forced landing in the police athletic field. ■ Qmet ? prevailed; in Paris, where the •police, made 223, precautionary arrests. A'number of persons were injured in Scuffles between the police and demonstrators in Czecho-Slovakia. In Vienna the police used their, truncheons> on > Communists;}who were bearing seditious banners, and they ar rested twenty-five; - f-bul!," infuriated .by the sight ■of flags, dispersed -ia ■l)r6ceKioH'•at■■'^VoLkQw'sk, Poland, near the Russian bor der.. , L'""-. ' ... PARADES IN- AMERICA. ; [ SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE. : NEW YORK, ~ay 1. i.With the exception of Oakland (California), where. four Communisms were aeripuSly injured in a police charge, the Mhy Day demonstrations in Various cities in the United Statfes were generally without incident. Boston reports that many, children were in a parade bold there, which was r without', disorder; ! The Philadelphia Town Hall,was guarded by police while Communists held a demonstration near by. : Two Communists were seized in Schenectady while handing out Red literature, and a few arrests were mado in. Newark, New Jersey, Sporadic lights arising out ; of Communists’ demonstrations in various parts of New York City Resulted in fifty-arrests,- but none of the disturbances was of considerable proportions, . .. , ,