MAY DAY
C7MONSTRATIONS. IN AMERICA. GUN jBATTLE IN HAVANA. " (United Pres, Association —By Electrio ’ Telegraph—Copyright) - ’’ new YORK, May 2. In practically all of the large cities in the Western Hemisphere, radical labour elements May Day, but, with the exception of a- gun battle in 'Havana, no serious disorders were reported. j In New Yoihv -Socialists-and 0?m-.-Hftunists held separate parades, the police keeping them apart,. In Havana trouble started when sniper from the top of -a' building fired on a p'l’sdc of ten thousand Communist workmen,, some of whom returned the . fire. Thereupon the. troops the mob .wtih machine guns (ynd gas bombs, No one; is known- to have 'been .killed; but many were injured. , ■ , OBSERVANCE IN CANADA i ..• Vancouver' % i. . The : police restrictions ban On ; demonstrations. resulted in a quiet May Day throughout Canada., Five thousand took part, in an • orderly Ccmmunist parade (at Winnipeg. At Vancouver vandals during the night . painted the . cenotaph with “Down with - Fascism” slogans. The home at .Toronto of a .Ukranian anti-Oohumini'st priest was; bombed. Non:one was injured.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1934, Page 5
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