MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 3 May 1932, Page 5

MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS

UNUSUALLY QUIET IN STATES. MANY COMMUNISTS PARADE. iUnited Press Association —By Electric Telegrapn Copyright.) NEW YORK, May 1. May Day was celebrated throughout the Western Hemisphere with unusual quiet. Although demonstrations were held in many cities in South and Central Amercia and in the United States, there are yet no reports . of serious trouble.

Sixty thousand Communists and sympathisers paraded in lower New York. Heavy rain kept many spectators away and probably prevented clashes. Three hundred police kept the .paraders moving. They also guarded the city hall and other buildings. The demonstrators carried banners demanding free rent and food and employment, and denouncing capitalism.

GREY MOUTH ASSEMBLY

GOVERNMENT POLICY ATTACKED (By IslesTrap*!—f'rjsi AsfKk-.lati»i:. ■ GR EYMOUTH, May 2. The May Day demonstration, attended by about 1(X)0 people, was held at the band rotunda this afternoon, following a procession through the streets under the auspices of the unemployed workers’ movement. Speeches were made by Messrs A. MeLagnn (miners’ national secretary), F. Turley and B. Topp (Timber Workers’ Union officials) and W Purdy (secretary of the West Coast Miners’ Council), all condemning the Government’s wages reduction policy, the arbitration amendment and the taxation measures as unfair to the workers. The following resolutions were carried : “That the new scheme for the unemployed, which has just been postponed', be postponed for ever.” “That the Government provide work for unemployed men and women immediately.” “That we demand the release of the unemploved workers’ leaders and of J. ■T. Robinson, editor of the “Red Worker” : we also demand freedom of speech and of assembly.”