MAY DAY DISPLAY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1933, Page 7

MAY DAY DISPLAY

CHALLENGE TO HITLERISM. HYDE PARK DEMONSTRATION. MR G. LANSBURY’S OBSERVATIONS. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received May 8, 9.35 a.m. LONDON, May 7. Thirty speakers addressed a vast crowd at the May Day Labour celebration in Hyde Park, amplifiers enabling far carrying of the criticism of Herr Hitler and Sir Oswald Mosley. Beflagged and placarded processions, including a contingent of Oxford undergraduates, with a banner emblazoned “We Won’t Eight, ’’ arrived at the Marble Arch by seven routes accompanied by bands and mounted and foot police marshalling an orderly demonstration.

Mr G. Lansbury, despite the percentage of Fascist and Hitlerite insignia in the procession said that the celebration challenged Hitlerism, Fascism, Nationalism and all their implications as gospels of decadence and despair. Labour represented international solidarity. Lord Trenchard aimed to transform the police into an upper class force because he could not trust the working class force to crush the Socialist Government. His report disgraced himself and the Administration, Mr Lansbury said.

A resolution condemned the Capitalist attacks on the workers and challenged the growth of militarism and Imperialism. The crowds quietly dispersed.