NEW YORK SCENE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17436, 7 April 1931, Page 7

NEW YORK SCENE

AGITATORS ON PARADE CELEBRATIONS DISTURBED NEW YORK, April 5. While Fifth Avenue was crowded with celebrants .and social leaders arrayed in Easter finery in Ihe usual style, and there was a parade, following observances in the leading churches, an extraordinary detail to the pageant was provided by professianal exponents of industrial and social unrest.

Scores of men and women, dressed in battered silk hats and ragged clothes, pushed their way through the crowds carrying banners, "Curse those who grind the faces of the poor, "The dressmakers who make your beautiful dresses 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 noted social worker and Labor agitator., before St. Patrick's Cathedral, became involved in a noisy and disorderly clash with the •policemen, in which minor injuries occurred to both .sides, but Ihe'.police refused to make arrests.

The fashionable paradors meantime continued to stroll the sidewalks, amused but otherwise unperturbed.