Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-05-02
MAY NJ DAYPASSE'S''
WITHOUT RIOTS
characterized as Typical
American Sunday. by
& Attorney General.

! way S"&WISL oOs
servance Of May day through6ut tho;
United States, despite attempts to
as,tate demonstrations through the
distribution of literature gives assur-
3ance of the return to normal .condi-
mons In America Said a statement
issued Yesterday by Attorney General
Harry NJ. Daugherty.
reports to. the department Of Justice
fs.nowed widespread ca!nlnessfprevatl-
..llhg: He declared yesterday was a
typical American Sunday"
Washington, May 2-Report to>tne
Adepartment of Justice last night said
tbthat May day bad PASSED. quietly in
Stn~escountry as whole. a few radi-
&ycal meetings were reported but they
were said to be nothing out of the or
binary. Department agents, however,
viii maintain vigilance today because
the day will be observed then .consid-
erablS since yesterday was Sunday. )
New York Gu Ct.
marked May day here. There were
several large patriotic gatherings,
swhere the speakers stressed Ameri-
%scanisn2 and pleaded for the quellinE
fSof elements dissatisfied with our con-
stitutionai form of government.
Forehodings that sabotage would be
FFundertaken by communistic organiza-
lions caused vigilance measures by
the police. Public buildings were
fgestcd intersections OF traffic were
Ascrutinized carefully by plain clothes
I men. UP to a late hour last night no
uhtoward event had been chronicled
"in police headquarters, and not an
arrest had been made in connect on
with any anarchistic activities.
In addition to the meetings hold
here. more than $1,000 persons as
sembled in Prospect park. Brooklyn,
yesterday afternoon to attest their
fealty to. the government.
L Parade in Chicago.
Il. Chicago. May Am orderly pa
rade and meeting called by the social
party Of America as Il demonstration
gin favor of Soviet Russia were the
SIonly observance Of May Day in Chi
Sscago yesterday.
s5 George r. k~irkpatrfck,s of New
York. j.. Louie Engdahl, Daniel w.
Hogan n former Mayor ISeidcl. Of
Milwaukee. and others addressed the
meeting. : The police had forbidden
the display of the red flag and not a
n was to. he seen.
Y; James Eads Howe and Ilr. Ben Ritz
imam were arrested while addressing
Gan open air meeting but were released
on bonds at one and returned to the
4 meeting. = &
& South America,
Buenos Aires, May 2.-MaT Day
here was marked by the throwing of
two bombs, an attempt to blow up
3the railway bridge and a. parade by
socialists and wnrkmen who carried
Z red flags Nobody was injured and
little material damage was done,
&.however. "a
= Scattered attempts We're made to
prevent operation of street cars. 9th
! erwise the day passed quietly.
Paris. May 2.-The first Of May,
with its r additional revolutionary
denominations passed yesterday with
Iprohably less excitement than the or
culinary Sunday. There weAe fewer
b halasrths usual nnsakbeE Of. arrests for
minor infringements of the law In the
Strcfty. and not one single case Of dis
order was reported throughout the
other portionssof France:
Is Belgium.
T Brussels. May 1.-The May Day
I'd demonstrations throughout Belgium
were carried out without any disor-
}ders. 49,
< Mexico.
L Mexico City, May t.--Protests
I against the Imprisonment Of radicals
Tin the United States. Hungary. Spain
.and italy. and demands that the pres
sent Mexican government take definite
Faction with regard to certain labor
sreforms were voiced yesterday during
E,the May Day demonstration staged by
ssthe confederation of la borers of Mex
Eico.
The parade was Disappointing in
ispoint Of numbers and was lacking in
%enthusjasn. although several Amcri-
can citizens attempted to harrangue
the crowd with a TRADE against
American capitalism.
? A procession moved to the United
States consulate. where a protest was
launched against the undcmocratic
policy pursued by the American gov
eminent which conten1 plated not only
st9the oppression of labor Within its