MAY DAY

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 May 1930, Page 7

MAY DAY

COMMUNISTS AND COMEDY.

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]

LONDON, May 1.

May Day passed off quietly in most of the European centres. Hunger strikers had been converging on London during the past fortnight to participate in the Hyde Park demonstration. Organised by Communists, demonstrators, including Lascars and other non-Europeans, made a procession through the London streets. They were singing “The Red Flag” and the “Internationale.” Among numerous banners and slogans, one, borne by Redchildren, read: “Down with caning in school!” In Moscow the streets were filled all day with demonstrators, carrying effigies of the Pope, and also of French and British statesmen. To-morrow has been declared a general holiday to enable the people to recover from the May Day exertions. At Berlin the reports show there were no disturbances, but the members of the Proletarian Flying Club flew over the processions, and one machine, by the irony of fate, made a forced landing in a‘ police athletic field. Quiet prevailed in Paris, where the police made 223 precautionary arrests. A number of persons were injured in scuffles between the police and the demonstrators in Czecho-Slovakia.

In Vienna the police truncheoned Communists, who were bearing seditious banners, and arrested twentyfive.

A bull, infuriated by the sight of a red flag, dispersed one procession at Wolkowsk. in Poland, near the Russian border.

QUIET TIME IN U.S.A.

NEW YORK, May 1.

With the exception of Oakland, California, .where four parading Communists were seriously injured by a police charge, the May Day demonstrations held in the various cities of the United States wore generally without incident. Boston reports that many children were in the parade there, which was without any disorder. The Philadelphia Town Hall was guarded by the police, while the Communists held a demonstration nearby.

Two' Communists were seized in Schenectady while handing out red literature. A few arrests were made in New ark, New Jersey. There were sporadic fights, resulting from the Communists’ demonstrations, in various parts of New York City. These resulted in fifty arrests. None of the disturbances was of considerable proportion.