MAY DAY

Northern Advocate, 3 May 1930, Page 9

MAY DAY

COMMUNIST FLAUNTING EUROPEAN DEMONSTRATIONS UNDER STRICT SURVEILLANCE. (United Press Association—By Electrio T elegraph—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, May 1. May Day passed quietly in most European centres. Hunger strikers had been converging on London during the past fortnight to participate ■ in a Hyde Park demonstration organised by Communists, The demonstrators, including lasears and other non-Europeans, made a procession through the streets, singing the “Red Flag” and. the “Intarnational.” Among mini crons banner slogans, one borne by Communist children read: “Down with caning in school!” In Moscow the streets were filled all day with demonstrators carrying effigies of the Pope and Freneli and British statesmen.- Tomorrow has been declared a general holiday to enable the people to recover from their May Day exertions. Berlin reports no disturbances, but members of the Proletarian Flying Club flew over the processions and one machine, by the irony of fate, made a forced landing in the police athletic field. Quiet prevailed in Paris, where the police made 223 precautionary arrests. A number of persons were injured in scuffles between police and demonstrators in Czecho Slovakia, In Vienna the police truneoned Communists bearing seditious banners and arrested 25. A bull infuriated by the sight of red flags dispersed a procession at Wblkowsk in Poland, near the Russian border. UNITED STATES CENTRES. ABSENCE OP VIOLENCE. OAKLAND AN EXCEPTION. (Received 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 1. With the exception of Oakland, California, where four parading Communists were seriously injured by a police- charge, the May Day demonstrations in various cities of the United States were generally without incident.Boston reports that many children were in a-parade there, which was without disorder. The Philadelphia Town Hall was guarded by police while -Communists hold a demonstration near by. Two Communists were seized in Schenectady while handing out Red literature, A few arrests were made in Newark, New Jersey. ' Sporadic fights resulting from Communists ’ demonstrations in various parts of New York City resulted in 50 arrests: None of the disturbances was of considerable proportions.'