MAY DAY

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 182, 4 May 1925, Page 9

MAY DAY

PASSES IN LONDON WITHOUT SERIOUS TROUBLE r' INTERNATIONAL CARNIVAL IN HYDE PARK FOREIGN ELEMENT CONSPICUOUS Bt TBLEGitArn.— Press Association Copybight. ( (Rec. May 3, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 1. The May Day celebrations passed without serious trouble, owing to the precautions taken by the police, who arrested about a hundred supposed agitators. A mass meeting of workers, including women and Koreans, passed a resolution urging, inter alia, the repealing of the Peace Preservation Act and the organising of ‘ a National Labour Federation. Ten thousand marched in procession to Hyde Park to participate in an international carnival. The demonstration was principally remarkable for the number of children carrying the Redflag, and the foreign element, especially Jewish, who were unusually _ conspicuous, while a small body of Asiatics marched under a banner demanding a free India.—Reuter.

DAY PASSES QUIETLY IN PARIS THANKS TO WINTRY WEATHER BITTER POLITICAL SPEECHES IN GERMANY 'London,' May 1. Messages from the Continent report tbrit May Day was generally observed most quietly. The French authorities took remarkable precautions in Paris, including countless police patrols and also “spotting” aeroplanes, but their fears of disorders arising from the recent discovery of most violent Communist documents were settled by snow, sleet, and bail, which kept the industrialists indoors. The Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Herald” states that there was a general cessation of work and countless processions. Speakers all over the country mostly, assailed Field-Mar-shal von Hindenburg’s election as the liigh-watcY mark of the reactionary tide, but the Socialists of Berlin devoted most of their time to bitter attacks on the Communist party, the Communists returning the compliment bv blaming tlifc Social Democrats for the triumph of reaction..—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PRECAUTIONARY STEPS IN NEW YORK New York, Slay 1. The police guarded all public buildings and the homes of noted men and public officials.—Aus.-N.Z) Cable Assn. WORKERS’ CELEBRATIONS IN HAVANA Havana, May 1. Drivers of the street cars, buses, and taxi-cabs remained away from their posts to-day, and the workers held a meeting and a parade.—-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ELECTION,OF LABOUR MAYOR tl • “THROB THROUGHOUT THE MOVEMENT,” Bt Telegeaph.—Press Association Christchurch, May 2. Speaking at the May Day celebrations,, the Rev. J. K. Archer (Mayorelect of Christchurch) said lie thought his election had sent a throb throughout the whole of the Labour movement in New Zealand. He had received a large number of telegrams of congratulation, and they showed that the whole of the Labour movement of the country was- interested, and that New Zealand was ripe for a great forward) movement.