MAY DAY IN NEW YORK
LABOUR STAGES PROCESSION , NEW YORK, May 1. In the first May Day parade for five years thousands of Labour unionists, including some uniformed servicemen, marched down Manhattan’s Eighth Avenue. Eight participants in the parade were arrested and charged with desecrating the American flag by carrying it flat so that coins could be dropped into it to aid the families of strikers. At the same time the national committee of the Communist Party published a statement in the 1 Daily Worker ’ calling on workers, veterans, farmers, negroes, women and youths to protest against the drive by trusts and monopolies for a war against the Soviet. Five hundred uniformed armv and navy veterans, including 50 officers, marched at the head of the Communist Party contingent, and at least 3.500 servicemen paraded with the various unions. The dominant theme of the Imnners and placards was that reactionaries were trying to provoke another war, with Britain and America ranged against the Soviet.
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Evening Star, Issue 25782, 3 May 1946, Page 5
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163MAY DAY IN NEW YORK Evening Star, Issue 25782, 3 May 1946, Page 5
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