MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 May 1935, Page 7

MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS.

j. DEMONSTRATION IN EUROPE. . PARIS MAKES RECORD BY NO ARRESTS. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Thursday, 7 p.m. LONDON, May 2. May Day celebrations in Germany were marred by a snowstorm. Plans for an open-air demonstration in Munich were suddenly abandoned, the official excuse being the inclemency of the weather. An unofficial reason was the failure of the workers to turn out in sufficient numbers, though last year 50,000 attended a similar parade. To-day only a few hundred arrived. Later in the day an indoor meeting, attended by 4000, was held. There is a growing disinclination on the part of Bavarian workers to attend demonstrations. The only really impressive Labour demonstration was in Moscow. May Day displays were ignored in Italy, Bulgaria and Eumania, while in Austria thousands of Vienna's poorest unemployed, mostly old women, waited for many hours, expecting a distribution of free meals. They were disappointed, as the official arrangements provided an inadequate quantity of food; so the unemployed went hangry. Public services in France functioned normally. There was not a single arrest in Paris May Day disorders, which is a record. Big Parades in New York COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS KEEP APART. Received Thursday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, May 1. Between 100,000 and 150,000 radicals demonstrated here to-day in traditional fashion, celebrating International Labour Day. Because of their continued inability to form a "united front," the Communists and the Socialists held separate parades through the downtown business section. The Communists claimed 60,000 marchers and the Socialists about twice as many, although police estimates indicated about half that number. The Communists carried their usual gaudy red banners, denouncing war, Fascism and other "manifestations of capitalism." Thousands of police guarded the line of march, but there was no disorder or violence. In fact, most of the demonstrators displayed a carnival spirit, rather than a revolutionary aspect. * Smaller Left Wing demonstrations were held in the principal cities throughout the nation, as in Mexico City and most of the capitals of South America, but with little or no violence reported. Gale Routs Communists BIG VANCOUVER PARADE. VANCOUVER, May 1. May Day passed off in Canada without disorder. A blizzard, with a foot of snow, and a howling gale, routed 5000 Communist coalminers who were marching on thf> town of Corbin, 8.C., following strike riots, -with the avowed intention of driving out the provincial police. At Vancouver 12,000 people paraded and sang "The Internationale." They refused to carry the Union Jack.