May Day clashes between Poale Zion and Revisionists were reported today from Poland while in Vienna the Nazis took advantage of the day to spread literature attacking the Jews.
In Warsaw a joint procession of the Jewish Socialist Bund and the Polish Socialist party was twice attacked by organized members of the anti-Semitic Nara party which is under an official ban in Poland.
Three members of the Palestine Labor League were today wounded, one of them fatally, in the May Day procession in Grojec, Poland, The procession, according to a statement issued by the Palestine Labor League to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Warsaw, was attacked by members of the Betar, the Zionist Revisionist youth organization.
A huge increase in the Palestine labor groups was noted today in the May Day parades in the streets of Warsaw.
PARADES SPLIT
The Right Wing of the Poale Zion party, which consists of Zionist Socialists, paraded separately, from the Bund, the Jewish Socialist party of Poland, which is against Zionism. Not less than 15,000 Chalutzim marched in the Poale Zion parade in Warsaw today.
Organized Nazi groups in Vienna, upon instructions from their leaders, were busy today spreading leaflets denouncing the first of May as “a Jewish creation” and extolling Hitler. The present Austrian government also came in for a good portion of denunciation in the leaflets.
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