New York, May 2.
Chanting such slogans as "The Yanks are Not Coming," local workers staged a mass May Day parade yesterday, but there were no incidents. Special police precautions were taken, including the guarding of homes of leading industrialists and financiers.
The parade was sponsored by 29 Congress of Industrial Organizations and 15 American Federation of Labour unions and featured the motto "Peace, Labour Rights and Civil Liberties."
Most unions refused to participate in parades throughout the country, claiming they were led by Communists The New York parade was one of the quietest in history and only-half the normal marchers in the annual parade appeared—United Press.
New York, May 2.
The _-transfer of more "ships. and destroyers from the United States to Britain and, if necessary, provision for United States trans-Atlantic conveys were urged by Mr, Wendell Willkie in an article in the current issue of the widely read "Collier's Weekly."
His article is a vigorous reply to an Isolationist article written by Colonel Lindbergh, which appeared zine. d in a recent issue of the same maga-
The views expressed by Mr. Willkie are editorially endorsed as "wise and upright."
"We should furnish Britain with ships," wrote Mr. Willkie, "ships in our docks, coastwise trade, as well as impounded ships of other ships we are building. Giv destroyers and, if necessar: yy the production of our factories ana farms, so England will survive."
The combined production of England, America, Canada and Australia would give Britain air superiority in 1942-43, Mr. Willkie declared, "when the peoples of conquered countries and perhaps even the enslaved Germans will rise."
"Ready for Action"
"Our fleet is ready and stripped for action., declared Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Commandant of the United States Third Naval District, to the New York Chamber of Commerce yesterday.
"We must ensure delivery of the needed supplies for England If that means convoys, then we must convoy; otherwise we may as well prepare for England's defeat.
"There can be no peace for us un-{il the present chaos is eliminated. We must prepare now for any even-
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