MAY DAY

Grey River Argus, 3 May 1934, Page 5

MAY DAY

IN AMERICA Demonstrations General (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received May 2 at 9.10 p.m.) NEW YORK. May 2. In J radically all of the cH iiin .the Western Ilemisp'here,. radical labour elements observed May Day, but. with the exception of a gun battle in Havana, no serious disorders were reported. In New York Socialists and Communists held separate paraides, the police keeping them apart. In Havana trouble started when : -niper f"om the r.ip of a balding fired on a parade of ten thousand Communist workmen., some of whom returned the fire. Thereupon the troops dispersed the mob with machine guns and gas bombs. No one is known to have been killed, but many were injured, VANCOUVER. May 1. The police restrictions ban on demonstrations resulted in a quiet May Day throughout Canada. Five thousand took part in an orderly Communist parade at Winnipeg. At Vancouver vandals during the night painted the cenotaph with “Down with Fa sc ism ’ ’ slogan s. The home at Toronto of a Ukranian anti-Communist priest was bombed. No-one was injured. Moscow Display MILITARY MARCH. MOSCOW, May 1. While 40,000 troops filed past In Red Square, in celebration of May Day 552 aeroplanes, including 165 speedy bombers, manoeuvred overhead. M. Stalin took the salute from the top of Lenin’s tomb. Dimitrov was a guest of honoui. • Many banners were inscribed “Down with Japanese Imperialism.’’ IN JAPAN. TOKIO, May 1. May Day was quiet. Thousands of Labourites, separated into Rightists and Leftists, demonstrated at Tokio under strong police precautions. A lew arrests were made. LONDON DEMONSTRATION. LONDON, May I. London’s May Day demonstration was one of the most orderly for years. The Labourites and the Trades Union Congress did not participate in the procession organised by the Communists and the Left Wingers. Marching by a round-about route, decreed by the police, to Hyde Park, caused few traffic blocks. The demonstrators included twenty-one Oxford undergraduates. A PARISIAN STRIKE. PARIS, May 1. On May Day there was a Communist meeting of 40,000 at Vincennes, largely a picnic affair. There were a few minor clashes, but the Communists were awed by strong forces of police and troops. The Communists’ appeal for a May Day strike was unavailing in the centre of Paris, but many factories in the suburbs closed. The, strikers included taximen. employees -of the Mint and Government, and match and tobacco factories. MADRID DEMONSTRATION. MADRID, May 1. The police arrested a number of dangerous Anarchists, for allegedly attempting to organise demonstrations on May Day. The police charged the crowds, resulting in a number of casualties. NAZI PARADE FOILED. HALL BURNT DOWN. (‘‘Times’’ Cable.) (Received Mav 2 at 7 p.m.) MUNICH. May 2. At Augusburg a concert hall, where the H’Her Youth should have met today. was burnt to the ground after midnight. The Nazi lead’erg there have telegraphed to Herr Hitler, alleging that Bolshevik incendiaries were responsible, and have offered five hundred sterling for the discovery of the culprits. The Nazis have protectively nrrested seventy-three.

Police Lay Siege TO PARIS BUILDING. (Received May 2 at 8 p.m.) PARTS. May 2. Tmo thousand police, reinforced b.' mobile guards, isolated a large block of houses in a working class district whence stones were thrown and shots were fired. One police officer was wounded. Preparations worn being made at 1 .30 in the m'orning to storm this building LATER A message states that the police have fixed searchlights on the build in</, nnd a spec al squad of steel helmets are ready. The ofllcer in charge is awaiting the aufhoritv of thMinister 'Of the Interior to begin an assault.