MAY DAY ABROAD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17249, 3 May 1930, Page 5

MAY DAY ABROAD

FEW SENSATIONS DEMONSTRATIONS IN EUROPE LONDON, May 2. May Day passed off quietly in most European centres. Hunger strikers have been converging on London during the past : fortnight to participate in a Hyde Park demonstration organised by Communists. The demonstrators, including Lascars and other non-Europeans, made a procession through thei streets singing ‘‘The Red Flag,” and the “Internationale.” Among the numerous banners and slogans, one, borne by “Red” children, read, “Down with caning in school.” In Moscow, the streets were filled all day with demonstrators carrying eiligies of tiie Pope apd of French and British statesmen. . To-morrow has been declared a general holiday to enable the people to recover from the May Day exertions. Berlin reports no disturbances, but members of the Proletarian Flying Club flew over a procession and one machine, by the irony ol late, 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 the police and demonstrators in Czeclio-Slovakia. In Vienna the police truncheoned Communists bearing seditious banners and arrested 25. A bull, infuriated by the sight of red flags, dispersed a procession at Wolkowsk, in Poland, near the Russian border. QUIETNESS IN AMERICA COMMUNIST DEMONSTRATION

NEW YORK, May 2. With the exception of Oakland, California, where lour parading Communists were seriously injured by a police charge, the May Day demonstrations in the various cities of the United States were generally without incident. Boston reports that many children were in the parade there, which was without disorder. The Philadelphia town, hall was guarded by the polico while Communists held a demonstration nearby. Two Communists were seized in Schnectady while handing out “Red” literature. A lew arrests were made in Newark.

Sporadic fights, resulting from Communists’ demonstrations in various parts of New York city, resulted in 50 arrests, but none of the disturbances was of considerable proportions