MAY DAY DISPLAYS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 131, 3 May 1935, Page 7

MAY DAY DISPLAYS.

DECLINE IN EUROPE. LONDON, May 1. May Day celebrations in Germany were marred by a snowstorm. Plans for an open-air demonstration at Munich were suddenly abandoned, the offi-. ciai excuse being the inclemency of the weather. The unofficial reason was the failure of the workers to turn out in sufficient numbers, though last year 50,000 attended a similar parade, 'today 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. Thousands of Vienna’s poorest unemployed, mostly old women, waited many hours expecting the distribution of free meals. They were disappointed, as official arrangements provided an inadequate quantity of food, so the unemployed went hungry. Public services in France functioned normally. There was not a single arrest at Paris for May Day disorders, which is a record.

May Day displays were ignored in Italy, Bulgaria- and Rumania.

AMERICAN CELEBRATIONS. MARCHES IN NEW YORK. . NEW YORK, May 1. Between 100.000 and 150,000 Radicals demonstrated here to-day in traditional fashion, celebrating the international Labour Day. Because of theiicontinued inability to form a “united front.’’ Communists and 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 the 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, also in Mexico City and most of the capitals of South America but with little or no violence reported.