APATHY OF TRADE UNIONISTS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 May 1923, Page 5

APATHY OF TRADE UNIONISTS

M CABIiB-PRiSHS ASSOCIATION- COPTEIGHT

LONDON, May 1. The Labour May Day demonstration at Hyde Park fell rather flat, and the ' crowd was below the average. Com--1 munists attended in full force, but one - speaker declared' The day was likely to prove a failure owing to what he de- - scribed as the pig-headed apathy cf ) trade unionists. >j NEW YORK, May 1. > Sporadic small strikes among various 1 industries in ten eastern American I cities occurred on May Day, involving ) less than 50,000 workers. There was : no violence, though in several cities the j police were compelled to disperse overflow audiences at Socialist meetings. J TOKIO, May 1. Various parades of workers, displaying red bands, occurred here and in: neighbouring cities. Large forces of police kept order, few arrests being! made. The police strictly enforced the! regulation against the display of the { ' red flag. A large gathering was ad- ; dressed by radical speakers. I 1 BERLIN, May 1. May Day was quiet in Berlin and: i Munich. Disorders occurred at Regens- j burg and Lichtenfels between National Socialists and Social Democrats, and , one was killed and several wounded at I Regensburg. j