MAY DAY

Evening Star, Issue 19546, 3 May 1927, Page 5

MAY DAY

DEMONSTRATIONS 111 LSM PROCESSION TO HYDE PARK* Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright* 1 LONDON. May 1. The principal May Day celebration! i in London was a demonstration in Park. It is estimated that 30,000! people walked in a procession to that j park. *! | The Socialist Council at Stepney ordered the hoisting of the Red Flag_ oil the Municipal Buildings, but patriot!' hauled it down. The mayor (Alderman Sullivan) then, personally hoisted another. Two loyal aldermen admitted . tint . they inspired the removal of the first flag. Massed choir.; of young women. raSoal in white and wearing red tk», wwo si feature of the denwnstratamjMKETING AT ALBERT HALL. OPPOSITION TO TRADES 0105 BILL. 1 LONDON. May 1, Five thousand Young people attendtel at the Albert Hnfl in the evaaa&ytoaa. ■ a resolution was adopted faroriißg st ! national general strike to prevent tfi® * passing of the Trades Onion ISM- _ _ ' Mr A. J. Cook, who was Uses pal speaker, induced the andwawra tense and repo.it after him tee wrardW’ “ Down with the Bines, Baldwin mwi&l go.” | Mr J. H. Thomas, M.P., in a speeds at. Derby, said ho never cmmmgßi'r class warfare, but the Bill was a saweasms- ‘ spirited attempt to injure a radSoffl «€; the workers. The next Labor Govern* > ment’s first act would be to repeal tend’ measure.— ‘ Argus ' and * Sun 9 caMa. | INCIDENT AT DUNDALK. | LONDON. May 1, | An armed band at Dundalk (Imaatliyi hold up the rniiwaymen, noised awi covered with petrol and burned Enjrifeal newspapers.—‘ Argus ’ and ‘ Sun * cabli* | GERMAN SOCIALISTS. ! DEMAND FOR, EIGHT-HOUR DAY* ' BERLIN, May 1, One hundred thousand Socialist*. : carrying red lings and banners inscribed “Hands off’China.” took part in the May Day procession, chiefly for the purpose of demanding an eight-hour day for all workers MOSCOW’S OBSERVANCE. ANTI-RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCES*. . LONDON, May 2. deceived May 3, at 1.30 a.m.) The Riga correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ states that the May Day festivities in Moscow included anti-religious per form aii cos. Wireless loud speakers vere installed in the streets, and these enabled the crowds to listen to the harangues of tho orators, who were busy all clay long. May 2 was also proclaimed a holiday to enable the masses to rest after tho strenuous demonstrations of .May Day.—‘ Tho Times.’