FASHION PARADE

Southland Times, Issue 21362, 7 April 1931, Page 7

FASHION PARADE

NEW YORK EVENT NOISY DEMONSTRATION BY SOCIAL WORKERS _ SCENE ON FIFTH AVENUE (Unttej Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) New York, April 5. While Fifth Avenue was crowded with celebrities and social leaders arrayed in their Easter finery in the usual “style” parade following observances in the leading churches, an extraordinary detail to the pageant was provided by professional exponents of industrial and social unrest. Scores of men and women dressed in battered silk hats and ragged clothes pushed then way through the crowds, carrying banners inscribed “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 Labour agitator, was involved in a noisy, disorderly clash with the police in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Minor injuries occurred on both sides, but the police refused to make arrests.

The fashionable paraders meanwhile continued to stroll along the sidewalks, amused but otherwise unperturbed.