MAY DAY

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1927, Page 2

MAY DAY

[“ The Times ” Service.j LONDON, May 2. A Riga correspondent states the .May Day festivities in Moscow included anti-religious porlormnnees. W boless loud speakers were installed in the streets to enable the crowds to listen to the harangues. Orators were busy the daylong. The second was also proclaimed a holiday to enable the masses to rest after the strenuous demonstrations of May Day. LONDON. May 1. The principal May Day celebration in London was a demonstration in Llvde Park. ‘it is estimated that thirty thousand people walked in the May Day procession alone to llvde Park. The Socialist Borough Council at Stepney ordered the hoisting of the Red Flag on the Municipal buildings when patriots hauled it down. The Mayor. Alderman Sullivan, then personally hoisted another flag. Two loyal Aldermen admitted that they inspired the removal ot the first flag. Massed choirs of young ladies, robed in white., and wearng red ties, were a feature of the demonstration. Some five thousand young people attended at an Albert Hall demonstration in the evening, at which a resolution was adopted favouring a National General Strike to prevent the passing of the Trade I’nion Bill. Mr A. .T. Cook (Miners’ Federation Secretary!, who was the principal speaker, induced the audience to rise and repeat after him the words “Down with t'-e Blues. Baldwin must go.” Mr J. H. Thomas (Labour M.P.) in a speech at Derby, said that he never encouraged class warfare, hut the Trades Union Bill was a mean-spirited attempt to injure a section of the workers. The next I.about- Government’s first act would be to repeal the measure. An armed band at Dundalk held up railwaymen. seized, and covered with petrol! and burned, some English newspapers. ________