MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 22783, 4 May 1931, Page 11

MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS

SUGHT DISTURBANCES IN AMERICA PARADES AND ORATORY Press Association —By Telegraph Copy light. NEW YORK, May 1. May Day celebrations were observed throughout the United States with parades and oratory, but there were virtually no disorders and few arrests were jnnde, the majority being of women and children who were accused of spreading radical propaganda in New York City schools. Communists and war veterans gathered in Union square, the latter hearing addresses against agitators and the former expressing opposition to Capitalism/, but the two groups kept apart without clashes. * Certain slight disturbances occurred in Boston throughout the day; when Communists gathered on the commons, but the police had little trouble in keeping the peace. QUIET IN CANADA OTTAWA, May 1. May Day throughout Canada passed without serious, disorders. .Local Communists were forbidden to hold a parade, and they abandoned a march to Parliament Hill when mounted police assembled. RED FLAGS IN FRANCE ONE FLOWN FROM NOTRE DAME. PARIS, May 2. Astonishment was expressed when a red flag was seen flying from the tower of Notre Dame Cathedral. It was quickly removed, and three workmen were arrested. Similar incidents are reported throughout Prance, red flags being unfurled from steeples under a general order from the’ Communist leaders. CASUALTIES IN LISBON t LISBON, May 2. The May Day casualties amount to two dead and fourteen woundued. MANY ARRESTS IN BERLIN BERLIN, May 2. Minor incidents on May Day led to eighty-two arrests. Seven people were wounded at Munich,