EUROPE’S MAY DAY

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1935, Page 5

EUROPE’S MAY DAY

CENTRES QUIETER

COUNTRIES’ OBSERVANCES

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LONDON, May 2

The May Day celebrations in Germany were marred !by <a dn'owstormPlans &r an open air demonstration in Mt’l-iich wore suddenly (abandoned, the official excuse 'being the inclemency ol the weather. The unofficial reason was the failure of the workers to turn iout in sufficient numbers.

Though last year fifty thousand at-tended-a similar parade, to-d a y tonly a few hundred arrived. Later ilii the day an if;door meeting attended by four thousand, was held. There is a growing disinclination ion the part of Bavaric workers to 'attend these demonstrations.

The only really impressive labour demonstration was in Moscow.

May Day displays were ignored in [ltaly, Bulgaria and .Roumnnia, while ill Austria thousands of Vienna’s poorest unemployed, mostly old women, waited many hours expecting the distribution of free meals. They we*e disappointed, as the official arrangements provided am inadequate quantity of food, so the unemployed wc n t hungry.

The police services in France functioned (normally. There "as not a single arrest in the Pa v is May Day disorders, which is a record-

DEMONSTRATION IN AMERICA

NEW YORK; May 1

Between one hundred thousand aind lone hundred and fifty thousand radicals demonstrated here to-day in traditional fashion, celebi’atliing ine interna* tional Labour Day. Because of their continued inability to form a “United front,” the Communists and Socialists held separate parades through the down town -business section.

The iQommunists claimed sixty thousand marchers (and the the Sociality claimed about twice as ma'.ny, although the 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 m» disorder or violence. In fact most of the demonstrators displayed a. •-■carnival spirit, nather thd.n.“a revolutionary aspect. Smaller left-wing demonstrations ‘were held in t'he principal cities throughout the nation, as in Mexico city and most capitals in South America, but with little or no violence reported.