LITTLE INTEREST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18696, 3 May 1935, Page 5

LITTLE INTEREST

MAY DAY PARADES FAILURE IN GERMANY LONDON, May 1. The May Day celebrations in Germany were marred by a snowstorm. Finns for an open-air demonstration in 'Munich were suddenly abandoned, the official excuse being the inclemency of the weather. An unofficial reason was the failure of the workers to turn out in sufficient numbers. ‘Though last year, 50,000 attended a simlar parade, to-day only a few hundred arrived. Later in the day, an indoor meeting was attended by 4000. There is a growing disinclination on the part of Bavarian workers to attend demonstrations. The only really impressive demonstration was in Moscow. May Day displays wore ignored in Italy, Bulgaria and Rumania, while in Austria thousands of Vienna’s poorest unemployed went hungry. The public services in France functioned normally. There was not a single arrest in the Paris May Day disorders, which is a record.

CARNIVAL SPIRIT

PARADE TN NEW YORK NEW YORK, May 1. Between 100,000 and 100,000 Radicals demonstrated here to-day in traditional fashion, celebrating International Labor Day. Because of cont inued inability to form a “ united front,” the Communists and Socialists held separate parades through the downtown business section.

The Communists claimed (50,000 marchers and the Socialists about twice as many, although the police estimates indicated about half that number. The Communists carried the usual gaudy red banners denouncing war, fascism and other “manifestations of capitalism.” Thousands of police guarded the line of march, but there was no disorder or violence; in fact, most ot the demonstrators displayed a carnival spirit rather than a revolutionary aspect. Smaller left wing demonstrations were held in the principal cities throughout the nation, and in Mexico City and most capitals of (South America, but with little, or no violence reported.