EASTER PARADE OF POVERTY AND WEALTH
New York’s Contrasts AGITATORS AND POLICE CLASH United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. Received Monday, 9.20 p.m. NEW YORK, April 5. While Fifth Avenuo was crowded with celebrities and social leaders arrayed in Easter finery in the usual style, another parado followed tho observances of tho lending churches with extraordinary detail was provided by the professional exponents of industrial and social unrest. Scores of men and women dressed in battered silk hats and ragged clothes pushed their way through tho crowds carrying banners “Curse those who grind the faces of the poor!” “Dressmakers w.ho make your beautiful messes are in rags! ” “Jesus said: Woo to the rich,” etc. Swinging splintered canes and waving crushed top hats a group under the leadership of “Mister Zero,” a'noted social worker and Labour agitator before St. Patrick’s cathedral wore involved in a noisy and disorderly clash with the police in which minor injuries occurred to both sides, but tho police refused to mako arrests. The fashionable paraders meanwhile continued to stroll the side walks amused but otherwise unperturbed.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6519, 7 April 1931, Page 7
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181EASTER PARADE OF POVERTY AND WEALTH Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6519, 7 April 1931, Page 7
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