CONTRASTS IN NEW YORK

Hawera Star, Volume L, 7 April 1931, Page 5

CONTRASTS IN NEW YORK

RAOS INVADE STVLE PAGEANT FIFTH AVENUE PARADE SCENES GROUP CLASHES WITH POLICE. (United Pivss Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) NEW YORK, April 5. While Ffth Avenue was crowded with celebrities and social leaders arrayed in Easter finery in the usual style parade following observances in the leading churches, an extraordinary detail to the pageant Avas provided by professional exponents of, industrial and social unrest. Scores of men and women dressed in battered silk hats and ragged clothes pushed their way i through the crowds carrying banners inscribed: “Curse those who grind the faces of the poor!" “The dress-: makers who make your beautiful dress, es are in rags!" “Jesus said woe to | the rich-—," J - I Swinging splintered canes and wav- 1 ing crushed, top hats a group under the leadership of ‘‘Mr. Zero," a noted social worker and Labour agitator, be- j fore St. Patrick's cathedral was involved in a noisy and disorderly clash with the police in which, minor injuries occurred on both sides, but the police refused to make arrests. , I The fashionable paraders meanwhile | continued to stroll on the sidewalks amused but othenvise unpurturbed.