FINERY AND RAGS.

Wairarapa Age, 7 April 1931, Page 5

FINERY AND RAGS.

AN AFTER CHURCH CLASH IN NEW YORK. FASHION LEADERS ANGRILY DENOUNCED. POLICE REFUSE TO MAKE ARRESTS. (Received Monday, 8.30 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 at the leading churches, an extraordinary detail of 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 tho Faces of the Poor.” “Dressmakers w-ho make your Beautiful Dresses are in Rags.” “Jesus said: ‘Woe to the Rich,’.’’_-etc. Swinging splintered canes and waving crushed tops hats, a group under the leadership of Mr. Zero, a noted social worker and labour agitator, became involved before St. Patrick’s Cathedral 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 fashion, able paraders meanwhile continued to stroll the sidewalks, amused but otherwise unperturbed.