MAY DAY
NO DEMONSTRATIONS IN EUROPE ELSEWHERE THAN IN RUSSIA. DECLARATION BY GREEK WORKERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON. May 1. May Day did not follow traditional lines except in Russia. Demonstrations were banned in most. European countries. A Greek Labour manifesto expressed the opinion that. May Day. 1942. would see the end of carnage and the triumph of moral forces and social justice. Dr. Ley issued a proclamation to German workers celebrating May Day as a day of work for national unity. Marshal Petain will address workers today at Montlucon. General de Gaulle, in a broadcast to France, said: "French workers, by treating May 1 in dignified silence, will show their contempt for traitors and their hope of deliverance." The Burgomaster of Brussels has banned street demonstrations from May 1 to May 10. Moscow had a Labour procession and a military review. M. Timoshenko, in a speech, said: “The Red Army is ready to offer an annihilating rebuff to any imperialistic encroachments. The Red Army must keep its powder dry, so that no accident and no tricks of our enemies can catch us unawares.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410502.2.52
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
189MAY DAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in