GERMAN GOVERNMENT'S RUSE.
BERLIN. May 1. May Day meeting proved a fiasco owing to the heavy rain. The Government by a clever ruse prevented the. interruption of public services while satisfying the Labour extremists by offering a holiday, but adding they would not be paid and it would be part of their annual holidays. The result was practically that there were no applications for absence from duty. The school children were also offered a holiday if they brought letters from their ])a rents. The result was that scarcely any parents troubled to write.
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Grey River Argus, 3 May 1922, Page 6
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