NEW YORK RICH AND POOR

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1931, Page 9

NEW YORK RICH AND POOR

EXTRAORDINARY PARADE

BITTER JIBES AT FASHIONABLE.

NOISY CLASH WITH THE POLICE.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10.30 p.m. New York, April 5. While Fifth Avenue was crowded with celebrities and .social leaders arrayed in 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 their way through the crowds carrying banners inscribed: “Curse those who grind the faces of the poor!” “Ihe dressmakers who make your beautiful dresses are in rags!” “Jesus said woe to the rich .”.

Swinging splintered canes and waving crushed top hats a group under the leadership of “Mr. Zero,” a noted social worker and Labour agitator, before St. Patrick’s cathedral was involved in a noisy and disorderly clash with the police in which minor .injuries occurred on both sides, but the police refused to make arrests. The fashionable paraders meanwhile continued to stroll on • the sidewalks, amused but otherwise unperturbed.