QUIET MAY DAY

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 132, 3 May 1930, Page 9

QUIET MAY DAY

COMMUNISTIC ACTIVITY. DEMONSTRATION IN CITIES. SOME CLASHES WITH POLICE. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—uopyriglu.) LONDOin, May 1. May Day passed quietly in most European centres. in JLiondon tnere was a Communist demonstration. There was a procession through the streets, the demonstrators singing “The Red Flag'' and “The Internationale.” Among numerous banners and slogans one Dander borne by cnildren read: “Down with caning in schools!” In Moscow the streets were filled all day With demonstrators, who carried eihgies of the Popo and French and British statesmen. To-morrow has been declared a general holiday to enable the people to recover from their May Day exertions. Berlin reports no disturbances, but members ol the Proletarian Flying Uiub flew over the processions, and one machine, by the irony of fate, made a forced landing in a field used by policemen for athletic purposes. Quiet prevailed in Paris, where the police made 223 precautionary arrests. A number of persons were injured in scuffles between the police and demonstrators in Czecho-Slovakia. In Vienna the police used truncheons on Conununists bearing seditious banners, and arrested twenty-five. A bull, infuriated by the sight of red flags, dispersed a procession at Wolkowysk, Poland, near the Russian border. UNITED STATES REPORTS. CITIES GENERALLY QUIET. NEW YORK, May 1. With the exception of Oakland, California, where four Communists were seriously injured when the police charged a procession, the May Day demonstrations in the various cities of the United States generally were without incident. Boston reports that many children were in the parade there, which was not marked by disorder. The Philadelphia Town Hall was guarded by police, while Communists held a demonstration nearby. Two Communists were seized at Schenectady while handing out Red literature. A few arrests were made at Newark, ■New Jersey. Sporadic fights resulting from Communist demonstrations in various parts of New York City resulted in fifty arrests. None of the disturbances was of considerable proportions.