MAY DAY MESSAGE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 1 May 1943, Page 2

MAY DAY MESSAGE

GREETINGS TO RUSSIAN WORKERS STRONGER BONDS BEING FORGED (Rec. 1.10 p.m.) Rugby, April 30. A May Day message to the Soviet people from the British Minister of Labour and National Service, Mr Bevin, will appear in Saturday's issue of “Britanski Soyuznik,” a weekly paper published in the U.S.S.R. Mr Bevin s message says: “For the British w’orking people Russia always had a great fascination. We have watched the great struggle for freedom that went on from time to time, and despite misunderstandings, the common people of this country have desired to see success crown the great experiment inaugurated there as the result of the revolution. Now the course of events has forged stronger bonds. Sons of Russia and Britain arc shedding their blood on the battlefields to defeat the Nazis and Fascism and bring about a situation in which the United Na tions can co-operate to build a world free from the terrors of war. “On this May Day, which perhaps means more to the workers than to many others, we send warm greetings to all workers of the Soviet Union. In this small island there are no idle hands. In the factories, in the fields, at the lathes, in the shipyards, on tractors and in mines, the working people of Britain, as they go on with their production, will renew their great friendship for all those who are engaged in the same struggle in the great cities and broad spaces of the Soviet Union. We are conscious of what it means in your great country to arm and feed your wonderful Red Army. Our one thought, therefore, will be to produce more and to take every possible step open to us to get the implements of war to our own armies and to yours, and to hasten the day when we can utilise the power of the United Nations in such a manner that it will finally crush these enemies of man kind.”—B.O.W.