QUIET FOR MAY DAY
AMERICAN PARADES FIGHT IN BUENOS AIRES (Received May 3, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 2. May Day was unusually quiet in both North and South America. Ten thousand people paraded through Brooklyn without any sign of disorder.
At Toronto 6000 participants in a celebration at a park clashed first with college students and secondly with rival factions. One student’s nose was broken and two girls were scratched and bruised. Order was restored quickly. In Buenos Aires, sympathisers with the rival Spanish factions fought with fists and guns in the midst of the parade. Nine persons were wounded and a woman died from a heart attack due to the excitement.
RESISTANCE TO JAPAN WORKERS OF CHINA (Reed. May 2, 3 p.m.) HANKOW, May 1. Eighty- thousand Chinese workers staged a May Day parade and passed a resolution in favour of continued resistance against Japan.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 3 May 1938, Page 5
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