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MOCKERY OF THE RICH.

SCENE IN NEW YORK. PARADE OF THE RAGGED. FIFTH AVENUE CONTRASTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received April 0, 7.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 5. While Fifth Avenue was crowded today with celebrities and social leaders arrayed in Easier 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," " The dressmakers who make your beautiful gowns are in rags," " Jesus said: 'Woe to the rich,' " etc. Swinging splintered canes and waving crushed top hats a group under the leadership of " Mr. Zero," a well-known 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 footpaths, amused rather than perturbed.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20841, 7 April 1931, Page 9

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MOCKERY OF THE RICH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20841, 7 April 1931, Page 9

MOCKERY OF THE RICH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20841, 7 April 1931, Page 9

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