MAY DAY IN EUROPE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 May 1910, Page 3

MAY DAY IN EUROPE.

GREAT SOOrALIST GATHERINGS IN LONDON. ATTACKS ON MONARCHY AND THE CHURCH. [BY ELECTRIC TELEQRArH—COPYRIGHT.] O'Ktt rilEfiS ASSOrUTIOM.) LOXDON, May 2. « • r oMldreii from fifty Sorialist Sunday Schools wttra iilclud«l in a Hydo Park demonstration ol International Socialists on Sunday. Iho platform speakers included I'ronch, Gorman, Hungarian and Russian Socialists. Mr Herbert Burrows, presiding. <1 eel a rwl that tho demonstrators wore mot merely asking for an eight or a-four hour day, but for tho f?>rtnntion of n great international Commonwealth. Large Socialist meetings are being lie.d in many provincial towns. Mr Will Thome, Labour M.p. for South-West Ham, speaking at a Socialist meeting at Nottingham, declared that tho House of Lords would not easily be abolished. Ho believed the House of Lords, the Monarchy, and tho Church would go >nt the same time, as they were so dove-tailed together. [Mr Herbert Burrows is a wellknown Socialist, and has made many unsuccessful attempts to enter Parliament. He has always contested working class districts, and has been defeated in Iloxton by tho Hon. Claud© Hay. At tho last election lie forced a triangular light in an East End of London constituency, mid was defeated.] KXCITEM KXT IX FRANCIS. DANGEROUS BOMB DISCOVERED. PARTS, May 2. After the PYench Premier had refused to authorise the May-day procession and 22,000 troops were drafted into Paris, tho Confederation _ of Trades Unions iKsued* a manifesto claiming that 'they were entitled to hold the procession, but adding: "Let us avoid massacres. Tlie soldiers' orders include instructions ' If you don't wish to, be shot, fire upon the revolutionists.' " At first many intending demonstrators resented the changed plans, ati<l denounced the organisers for their cowardice. Demonstrations were held in the French provinces, but. there were fenv exciting features. A homh of a most dangerous character was harmlessly exploded in front of the offices of the Coin in is."tv at Alles. The perpetrators remain untraerd.