NO DISORDER

Southland Times, Issue 25275, 3 May 1935, Page 7

NO DISORDER

MAY DAY IN AMERICA MARCHERS IN CARNIVAL MOOD NEW YORK PARADES (United Press Assn.—-Telegraph Copyright.) (ReC. 5.5 p.m.) New York, May 1. Between 100,000 and 150,000 radicals demonstrated here to-day in traditional fashion, celebrating the international Labour Day. Because of Continued inability to form a “united front, Communists and Socialists held separate parades through the downtown business section. The »Communists claimed 60,000 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 the march, but there was no disorder or violence; in fact most of the demonstrators displayed a carnival spirit rather than a revolutionary aspect. Smaller left wing demonstrations were held in the principal cities throughout the nation, in Mexico City and in most of the capitals of _ South America, but with little or no violence reported. MAY DAY IN CANADA. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Vancouver, May 1. May Day in Canada passed without disorder. A blizzard with a foot of snow and a howling gale routed 5000 Communist coal-miners who were marching on the town of Corbin (British Columbia), following . strike riots, with the avowed intention of driving out the provincial police. At Vancouver 12,000 people who paraded sang the International and refused to carry the Union Jack. EUROPEAN CELEBRATIONS. SOVIET AIR REVIEW. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, May 1. May Day was celebrated throughout Europe to-day. The Soviet, in the presence of M. Stalin add other leaders, staged an air review over Red Square. Six hundred planes, including four-motored bombers, swift interceptors, thirty new super-fast attackers and two-motored monoplanes with a speed of 200 miles an hour participated. A parade of the army, navy and tank units was held and civilian processions followed, featuring an enormous serpent, typifying Imperialism, wearing a Japanese cap over a pig’s snout and marked with a swastika. Similar parades were held in other cities.

Three police and five Communists were killed in riots in the Bulgarian village of Enina. Six hundred political prisoners were freed as a May Day amnesty in Austria. The police swooped down on Communist headquarters and arrested 500 as a sequel to a bomb being thrown at a police station in a suburb of Vienna. Four were wounded. Spanish troops were confined to barracks, though armed guards patrolled the streets of Madrid on May Day. May Day opened in France with a Communist riot at Bagnolet, knives and revolvers being freely, used. One person was killed.

MARRED BY SNOWSTORM CELEBRATIONS IN GERMANY. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, May 2. The May Day celebrations in Germany were marred by a snowstorm. Plans for an open-air demonstration in Munich were suddenly abandoned, the official excuse being the inclemency of the weather. The unofficial reason was the failure of the workers to turn out in sufficient numbers. Though last, year 50,000 attended a similar parade, to-day only a few hundreds arrived. Later in the day an indoor meeting attended by 4000 was held. There is a growing disinclination on the part of Bavarian workers to attend demonstrations. The only really impressive labour demonstration was in Moscow. May Day displays were ignored in Italy, Bulgaria and Rumania, while in Austria thousands of Vienna’s poorest unemployed, mostly old women, waited many hours expecting the distribution of free meals. They were disappointed, as the official arrangements provided an inadequate quantity of food, so the 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.