UNUSUALLY QUIET

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23027, 3 May 1938, Page 11

UNUSUALLY QUIET

AMERICAN CELEBRATIONS STUDENTS' CLASH IN TORONTO BUENOS AIRES GUN BATTLE (Received May 2, 7.20 p.m.) NEW YORK. May 2 May Day was unusually quiet in both North and South America. In Brooklyn 10,000 people paraded without a sign of disorder. There were 6000 participants in the celebration in Toronto, Canada. The marchers clashed first with college students and then with rival factions. One of the students had his nose broken and two girls were scratched and bruised, but order was restored quickly. At Buenos Aires the sympathisers of rival Spanish factions fought with fists and guns in the middle of the parade. Nine were wounded and a woman died from a heart attack caused by excitement. A message from Rio de Janeiro says the President of Brazil, General Vargas, signed a decree creating regional commissions to establish minimum wages for all workers. In Havana, Cuba, a gathering of 20.000 urged action against foreign interests similar to Mexico's expropriation of the foreign-owned oil wells. CHINESE AND THE WAR HANKOW, May I About 80,000 Chinese workers at a May Day parade passed a resolution in favour of continued resistance against Japan.