MAY DAY

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 131, 3 May 1927, Page 7

MAY DAY

CELEBRATION IN LONDON. HYDE PARK DEMONSTRATION. THIRTY THOUSAND IN PROCESSION. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, May 1. The principal May Day celebration in Lofidon was a demonstration in Hyde Park. It is estimated that 30,000 people walked in procession to the park. The Socalist Council at Stepney ordered the hoisting of the Red Flag on the -municipal buildings. Patriots hauled it down. The Mayor, Alderman Sullivan, then personally hoisted another. Two loyal aldermen admitted that they inspired the removal of the first flag. Massed choirs of young ladies, robed in white and wearing red tie 6, were a feature of the demonstration. Five thousand young people attended at the Albert Hall in the evening, when a resolution was adopted favouring a national general strike to prevent the passing of the Trades Union Bill. Mr A. J. Cook, who was the principal speaker, induced the audience to rise and repeat after him the words: “Down with the Blues 1 Baldwin must gol” Mr J. H. Thomas, in a speech at Derby, said that he had never encouraged class warfare, but the bill was a mean-spirited attempt to injure a section of the workers. The next Labour Government’s first act would be to repeal the measure. —A. and N.Z. cable.

ORATORS IN MOSCOW. BUSY TALKING ALL DAY. LONDON, May 2. The Times’s Riga correspondent states that the May Day festivities at Moscow included anti-religious performances. Wireless loud-speakers were installed in the streets to enable the crowds to listen to the harangues of orators who were busy all day long. Ma- 2nd was also proclaimed a holiday to enable the masses to rest after the strenuous demonstrations of May Day. '—A. and N.Z. cable.