MAY DAY HAPPENINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19626, 3 May 1927, Page 9

MAY DAY HAPPENINGS.

LONDON DEMONSTRATIONS. GRIEVANCES OF WORKERS. GENERAL STRIKE ADVOCATED. VIOLENCE AND DISLOYAL ACTS. 13y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received May 2, 8.25 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Sun., LONDON. May 1. The principal May Day celebration in London was a demonstration in Hyde Park. It is estimated that 30,000 people walked in the procession to the park. The Socialist Council at Stepney ordered the Red flag to be hoisted on the municipal buildings, but patriots hauled it down again. The Mayor, Alderman Sullivan, then hoisted another one. Two loyal aldermen admitted that they had inspired the removal of the first flag. Massed choirs of young women, robed in white and wearing red ties, were features of one demonstration, which 5000 young people attended at the Albert Hal! in the evening. A resolution was adopted in favour of a national general strike to prevent the passing of the Trades Unions Bill. The general secretary of the Miners' Federation, Mr. A. J. Cook, who was the principal speaker, induced the audience to rise and repeat after him the words: " Down with the blues. Baldwin must go." Mr. J. H. Thomas, Labour M.P. for Derby, in an address to his constituents, said he had never encouraged class warfare, but the Trades Unions Bill was a mean-spirited attempt to injure a section oE the workers. The first act of the next Labour Government would be to repeal the measure. An armed band at Dundalk hold up some railwayman. They seized, covered with petrol and burned some English newspapers. RUSSIANS CELEBRATE. ANTI-RELIGIOUS SCENES. ORATORS BUSY ALL DAY. (Received May 3, 12.55 a.m.) Times. .uONDON, May 2. The Riga correspondent of the Times says the May Day activities in Moscow included anti-religious performance. Wireless loud-speakers were-installed in the Streets to enable the. crowds to listen to harangues. Orators wore busy all day iong. The Soviet has proclaimed a second holiday to enable the masses to rest after their strenuous demonstrations on May Day. GREAT MOSCOW PROCESSION. RED FLAG FLUTTERS ALOFT. A. and N.Z. MOSCOW. May 1. It is estimated that 500,000 civilians and thousands of troops took part in the May Day demonstrations in Red Square. These were begun at dawn with a blare of 50 silver trumpets Aeroplanes with red streamers flew above the crowds. There was a spectacular march past Lenin's tomb. This lasted eight hours. The celebrations throughout the country were on a stupendous scale. By means of wireless • signals troops in all parts took the oath simultaneously. GERMAN SOCIALISTS. HANDS OFF CHINA CRY. EIGHT-HOURS DAY DEMANDS. A. and N.Z. BERLIN. May 1 One hundred thousand Socialists and trades unionists, carrying red flags and banners inscribed "Hands off China, ' took part in the May Day procession in Berlin. The chief object of the demonstration was to demand an eight-hours day for ail workers.