MAY DAY

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1930, Page 5

MAY DAY

U.S.A. DEMONSTRATIONS

TUnited Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

NEW YORK, Mnv 1

With the exception of Oakland, California, where four parading Communists werb seriously injured by a police charge, the May Day demonstrations held in the various cities of the United States were generally without incident.

Boston reports that main; children were in the parade there, which was without any disorder.

The Philadelphia Town Hall was guarded by the police, while the Communis. s held a demonstration nearfoy.

Two Communists were seized in Schenectady while handing out red literature.

A few arrests were made in New ark, New Jersey.

There were sporadic ’fights, resulting from the Communists’ demonstrations, in various' parts of New York City. These resulted in fifty arrests. None of the * disturbances were of considerable proportion.

IN EGROPE

LONDON, May 1. May Day passed off quietly in most of the European centres. Hunger strikers have been converging on London during the past fortnight to participate in the Hyde Park demonstration Organised by Communists, demonstrators, including Lascars and other non-Jtiurupeans, made a procession through the London streets. They were singing “The Red Flag” and the “Internationale.”

, Among numerous banners and slogans, one, borne by Red children, read: “Down with caning in school!”

In Moscow the streets were filled all day with demonstrators, carrying effigies of the Pone and also of French and British statesmen. To-morrow has been declared a general holiday to enable the people to recover from the May Day exertions. .At Berlin the reports show there were, no, disturbances, but 1 tho members of the Proletarian Flying Club flew over v the .processions, aitd one machine, by the irony of fate, made a forced landing in a police athletic field.

Quiet prevailed in Paris, where the police made 223 precautionary arrests.. A number of persons were injured in scuffles between the police and the demonstrators in Czecho-Slovaßia.

In Vienna the police truncheoned Communists who were bearing seditious banners, and arrested twentyfive. i

A bull, infuriated by the sight of a red flag, dispersed one procession at Wolkowsk, in Poland, near* the Russian border.

SYDNEY COMMUNISTS

SYDNEY, May 1

The Communists’..procession in celebration of May Day wag 'a poor affair in .Sydney. Crowds of the unemployed gathered on the street corners and watched it pass, but they declined invitations to take part. Speeches of a fiery nature were delivered in the Domain,.

The police arrested seventeen Communists who attempted to parade without permission at Glebe. A similarly tame demonstration was held in Melbourne, but there were no disturbances.