RAGS AND RICHES

Northern Advocate, 7 April 1931, Page 5

RAGS AND RICHES

SPECTACULAR CONTRAST FIFTH AVENUE PARADE. FLAMBOYANT BANNERS. (United, Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 5. While Fifth Avenue was crowded today with celebrities and social leaders arrayed in Easter finery in the usual style parade after church services, an extraordinary contrast to the pageant was provided by professional exponents of industrial and social unrest. Scores of men and women dressed in battered silk hats and ragged clothes pushed their way through the crowd carrying banners bearing such devices as: “Curse those who grind the faces of. the poor!” “Tne dressmakers who make your beautiful gowns are in rags!” and “Jesus said: ‘Woe to the rich!' ” Swinging splintered canes and waving crushed top-hats, a group under the leadership of “Mr Zero,” a wellknown social worker, met Labour 'agitators in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and a noisy and disorderly clash occurred in which minor injuries were suffered on both sides. The police refused to make any arrests. The fashionable paraders, meanwhile, continued to stroll along the footpath, amused rather than perturbed.