NEW YORK’S MAY DAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20604, 3 May 1935, Page 1

NEW YORK’S MAY DAY.

150,000 Radicals March in City. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK. Mav 1. Between 100.000 and 1 50 ono demonstrated in New York to-day in traditional fashion in celebraton n 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 and the Socialists about twice as many, although police estimates indicated about half that number. The Communists carried their usual gaudy red banners denouncing war. Fascism and other “ manifestations of Capitalism. ” Thousands of police guarded the line of march, but there was no disorder or violence. In fact most of the demonstrators displayed a carnival spirit rather than the revolutionary aspect. Smaller Left Wing demonstrations were held in the principal cities throughout the nation, as in Mexico City and most of the capitals of South America, but with little or no violence reported.