New York, May 1.
'May Day was celebrated quietly throughout the world to-day with parades, mass meetings and speeches by high ofeiais, 'The observance was marked by orderly celebrations, particularly in the United States, where some disturbances had been' anticlpated.
Tension was noticeably lacking in the American observance. The New York parade of left-wing labour: groups and anti-Fascist_ and Communist clements was a comparatively tame affair, and the number of persons participating in it was far below the 200,000 which had been preaicted—United Press.
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