MAY DAY.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1925, Page 1

MAY DAY.

.SCENES IN' LONDON. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIILK ASSOCIATION. LONDON, May L May Day demonstrations passed "ithout .serious trouble, owing to tho precautions taken by tho police, who arrested about one hundred supposed a.git a tors. A mass meeting of workers, including women and Koreans, paused a resolution urging inter alia, tho repealing of the Peace Preservation Act, and the organising of the National Labour Federation. Ten thousand marched in procession lo Hyde Park, to participate in an international carnival demonstration which was principally remarkable for the number of children carrying the md flag, and a foreign element, especially Jewish, who were unusually

ci n-j icuou.s. "bile a small body ol Asiatics marched under a banner demanding a free India. At the conclusion of the demonstration, the procession inarched to the Bulgarian .Legation, Amid the singing of “The Red Flag.” a protest was presented against Hie alleged per.seeiii ion of Bulgarian workers. Tho crowd outside, "ns regaled with speeches by lenders, including one from Ben TilLt. membecr of th House of Commons. A slight melee rcsnlfed In the police clearing the pavement. amid booing.

The Bulgarian official, replying to the protest, declared lhal the stories of oppression were maliciously spread and were unworthy ol credence, ihc Bulgarian Legation at London issued a communique denying Air TYcdgewood s (statements, ealdeil on April 21. Ihe document states that persons arrested throughout Bulgaria do not exceed two thousand, of whom six hundred have liberated. None have yet been i!-;,-d ..til! less executed. Regi’el "'as expressed that Mr Wedgwood and his friends spent only three days at Fofia. If thev had remained longer they "■nuld have learned mat the rumours to which they had given creden. e hi” had no foundation in hu t. Ihe Agrarian Communist conspiracy did not come from ((institutional opposition. Ihe latter, including Socialists, Democrats mid Liberals enjoy full political liberties, and a free press.