AN EASTER PARADE
BY NEW YORK LEADERS. A COUNTER PARADE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Dopy right.) NEW YORK. April r>. 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 to the pageant was provided by professional exponents of industrial, social unrest dressed in battered silk bats and ragged clothes, pushed their way through,, the. crowds carrying banners, “Curse those who grind the faces of the poor”; "Dressmakers who made your benutilul dresses are in rags”; "Jesus said woe to rich" etc. .Swinging splintered canes, and waving crushed top hats, a group under the leadership of Airs Zero, a noted social worker labour agitator, before St. Patrick’s C'athredal, were involved in a. noisy disorderly clash with the police in which minor injuries occurred to both sides, hut the police refused to make arrests.
The fashionable panniers meanwhile continued to stroll on the sidewalks, amused but otherwise unperturbed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1931, Page 3
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165AN EASTER PARADE Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1931, Page 3
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