MAT DAY CELEBRATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1920, Page 3

MAT DAY CELEBRATIONS.

- •••• 'By Electric Telegraph— Cooyr'ght ( Rcci'ii f>d This Dm nt. 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 1. According to latest reports, Labour May Da y celebrations passed without serious incident. There were particularly good humoured demonstrations in England. An unofficial holiday was observed generally in some industrial areas, and half heartcdly ip others. Everywhere vital services with the exception of London dockyards were not affected. The chief feature of London's celebrations consisted of a Mammoth procession, admjra.blv marshalled by tire police, and followed hy open air meetings in Hyde Park, wliere there were seventy two platforms, from which resolutions extending fraternal greetings to colleagues all over the world and demanding housing reform, an amnesty to political and military prisoners; endowment of motherhood etc, were carried. No prominent- Labour lenders participated.

MAY DAY IN ITALY. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) ROME, May 1. May Day in Italy was celebrated by a twenty-four hour railway strike. There was an abstention pf work in most towns, the shops he,dig shut apd factories close,*). HOOTED AND HISSED. fßeceivftd this day, at 9.30 a.m.) * LONDON, May 2, Sexton, a member of the Commons, speaking at a Mav Day gathering at St Helens, also Mr dynes speaking at Manchester, were hissed ai d booted, and refused a bearing owing to the unsympathetic attitude of the Commons to the Sinn Fein hunger strikers. MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS. (Received tiiis day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 1. < The fact that May Day fell on Saturday, necessitating the loss ol only hall a day’s pay undoubtedly conti ibuted to the widespread nature of tile stoppage of work, \mt at present it is impossible to say whether the earlier forecasts of the extent thereof were fully 'justified. It is noteworthy that many colliers and others in Lancashire and Yorkshire protested against idleness. Meetings m most mining areas demanded the nationalisation of the mines. PARIS. May Ist.

The May Day strikers in place de la Republiq ue were intended to interfere with motor busses. Disorder ensued and some shots were fired, but no, casmuties were reported. Twenty were arrested. IN GERMANY. BERLIN, May 1. Despite the National Assembly’s I>position, May Day celebrations wore Mel, the factories, offices and shops being closed. Traffic with the exception oAhe railways was suspended. Numerous Socialist meetings were held. THE: OPPOSITE. COPENHAGEN, May 1. A Moscow wireless states in Russ: i in celebrating of May Day, voluntary work in the factories began earlier than npual.