MAY DAY CELEBRATION
GUN BATTLE AT HAVANA Press is>oi h>Mn:i. —Cnnvright. Now York, May 2. In practically all the large cities in the western hemisphere radical Labour elements observed May Day, but with the exception of a gun battle at Havana no serious disorders were reported. At New York Socialists and Communists held separate parades, the police keeping them apart. Trouble started at Havana when a sniper from the top of a building fired on a parade of 10,000 Communist workmen, some of whom returned the fire, upon which troops dispersed the mob with machine-guns and gas bombs. No one is known to have been killed but many were injured..
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 46, 3 May 1934, Page 6
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110MAY DAY CELEBRATION Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 46, 3 May 1934, Page 6
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