UNUSUALLY QUIET
MAY DAY IN AMERICA NEW YORK “REDS” PARADE NEW YORK, May 1. The traditional First of May, the international Labor Day, was cerebrated throughout the Western Hemisphere with unusual quiet. .Although demonstrations were held m many cities m South and Central America, and the United States, there are as yet no reports of any serious trouble.
Sixty thousand Communists and sympathisers paraded in low New York. Heavy ram kept many spectators away and probably prevented clashes. Three hundred police kept the parnders moving. The police guarded the City Hall and other buildings. Demonstrators carried banners demanding free rent, food, an employment, and denounced capitalism. As. May Day fell on Sunday many demonstrations in the United States Were held yesterday.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17769, 3 May 1932, Page 5
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121UNUSUALLY QUIET Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17769, 3 May 1932, Page 5
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