MAY DAY

Grey River Argus, 3 May 1946, Page 5

MAY DAY

MOSCOW PARADE . Tension in Trieste LONDON, May 1. Moscow radio, describing the May Day procession in Moscow, specially commented on the presence of the staff of Soviet laboratories working under Professor Kapitza, Russia’s leading atom expert. The announcer said: “As is well known work of farreaching importance is now taking place in Soviet laboratories under Professor Kapitza.” Professor Kapitza worked for 14 years at Cambridge under Professor Rutherford. Moscow radio said M. Stalin watched a huge parade in the Red Square with famous generals leading tanks, artillery, marines and cavalry. The generals saluted M. Stalin with raised swords and squadrons of lighters roared overhead. “The Russian armed forces must be alert and retain all their power,” said Marshal Rokossovsky, former commander of the Second White Russian front. “The forces of reaction are still strong and continue to intrigue. Neither peace nor international security are yet assured. We must remain on our guard and husband our- strength.” Allied military and civil police stood by as 50,000 Yugoslavs marched through the be-flagged streets of Trieste in a May Day demonstration, while Italians flanking the route taunted them, says the Associated Press Trieste correspondent. Italian flags predominated throughout the city, blit the demonstrators were mostly Yugoslavs who shouted: “Viva Tito! Viva Stalin!”

German workers enthusiastically celebrated the first peace-time May Day among the ruins of Berlin and other Germans cities, says a correspondent in Berlin. Long processions carrying Allied and Red flags passed through Berlin to the Lutgarten from the early morning. The British and American authorities banned the Socialist Unity Party’s banners and posters in their sectors as the party had not obtained permission from the Kommandatura to operate.

German Socialists

MAY DAY SPEECHES

(Rec. 6.30) BERLIN, May 1. Herr Wilhelm Pieck a former Communist and now a joint leader of Germany's new Socialist Unity Party, addressing a May Day meeting said: Germany cannot live without a centralised government consisting of representatives of all four anti-Fascist parties and trade unions. We want the Rhine and the Ruhr to remain German territory, because we cannot exist without this important territory. We* are demonstrating to-day for bread, peace and liberty. Unity of the working classes will give strength for reconstruction of our destroyed economy and allow the creation of new democratic, peaceful Germany. . Herr Grotewohl. the othei’ joint leader of the Socialist Unity Party, stressed that it was the party’s desire to attain its democratic • aims peacefully. He said: “If ever Germany’s new freedom must be defended by force, it wont be our fault.”

NEW YORK DEMOBILISATION NEW YORK, May 1. On May Day five hundred uniformed Army and Navy veterans, including fifty officers, marched at the head of a Communist Party contingent. With various unions, at least 3500 servicemen paraded. The dominant theme of banners and placards shown was that reactionaries were trying to provoke another war, with Britain and America ranged against the Soviet.