MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 3 May 1934, Page 5

MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS

PARIS STRIKE EFFORT. SUCCESSFUL IN SUBURBS. PARIS, May 1. The Communist 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 match and tobacco factories.. A Communist meeting of 40,000 at Vincennes was largely a picnic affair. There were a few minor clashes, but the Communists were awed by strong forces of police and troops.

DISTRICT ISOLATED

POLICE PLAN ASSAULT. _r EARIS, May 2.

Two,' thousand police, reinforced by mobile guards .isolated a large block of houses in a working class distinct rrom which stones were thrown and shots fired, one officer being wounded. Preparations are being made at 1.30 o’clock in the morning "to storm the building. The police have fixed searchlights and a special squad of isteel-helmetod men are ready. The officer in (charge is awaiting the authority of the Minister of the Interior to begin the assault. CASUALTIES IN SPAIN. POLICE CHARGE CROWDS. ■ * MADRID, May 1. The police arrested a number of the dangerous anarchists for allegedly _ attempting to organise demonstrations on May Day. The police charged the crowds and numerous casualties resulted. QUrET 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 arrests were made.

VANDALISM IN CANADA

HOME OF PRIEST BOMBED.

VANCOUVER, May 1

Police restrictions and the ban on demonstrations resulted in a quiet May I>ay throughout Canada. Five thousand took part in an orderly Communist parade at Winnipeg. At Vancouver vandals during the night painted the cenotaph with Fascism slogans. The home at Toronto of a Ukrainian anti-Communist priest was bombed. No one was injured.

STRIKE AT NEW DELHI.

ARREST OF THE LEADERS.

CALCUTTA, May 1. A textile strike disturbance occurred in the New Delhi district, the leaders being arrested. Preparations were made in many large industrial centres for May 7 Day demonstrations.

CONCERT HALL BURNED

BOLSHEVIKS ACCUSED.

MUNICH. May 2 The Augsburg concert hall, where the Hitler Youth Movement ’should have met to-day, was burned to the ground after midnight. Nazi leaders telegraphed to Herr (Hitler alleging that Bolshevik incendiaries were re sponsible and have offered £SOO for the discovery of the \culprits. Nazis have placed 73 people under arrest as a' protective measure.

MARCHERS AT SYDNEY

RED BANNERS FLOWN

SYDNEY, May 2. A Mav Day procession yesterday, in which 2000 ■inarched with numerous banners and in which red predominated, wave the police no trouble. The procession terminated at the domain with speeches and resolutions protesting ing against capitalism, wage slavery ancl war-monger:ng. Minor gatherings were held at Newcastle and Wool-long one without incident.

HAVANA GUN BATTLE

OUIF.T IN OTHER CENTRES

NEW YORK, May 2

In practically all the large cities in the western hemisphere radical Lnboui elements observer! Mav Dav. but with the exfcept'on of a gun battle at Havana no serious disorders were reported. At N°w York Socialists ancl Communists held Sjeparate parades, the ]>ol ; oe keeping them apart. Trouble started at Havana when a sniper from the top of a building fired oil ia parade of 10.030 Communist workmen, some of whom returned the firo ■ unon wh»oh troops. <TiH_rx?rs^ k tl tho mob with machine-guns and gas bombs No one is known bo have been killed, but many were injured.