MAY DAY IN AMERICA
UNUSUALLY QUIET.
NO SERIOUS TROUBLI'
New York, May 1
The traditional Jlay the first international labour day was celebrated throughout the AVestern Hemisphere with unusual quiet. Although demonstrations were held in many cities in South and Central America and the United States, there are as yet no reports of serious trouble. Sixty thousand Communists and
their sympathisers paraded in lower New York. Heavy rain kept many spectators away and probably prevented clashes. Three hundred police kept the paraders moving. They guarded the City Hall and other buildings. The demonstrators carried banners demanding free rent, food and employment, and denouncing capitalism. As May Day fell on Sunday, many demonstrations in the United States were held yesterday.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 117, 3 May 1932, Page 8
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