MAY DAY

Otago Witness, Issue 3556, 9 May 1922, Page 22

MAY DAY

ITS WORLD-WIDE OBSERVANCE. TOKIO, May 1. There were May Day processions in all the large Japanese cities. Minor clashes occurred with the,police, who lined the route. The Osaka workers were forbidden to hold a labour parade, but they secured their objective by holding it in the guise of a welcome to the Prince of Wales. PARIS, May 1. Labour Day was passed in Sabbatical calm, except that the cabmen and businesses of every kind went on absolutely as usual. The giant aeroplane Goliath cruised over the city watching the Socialist meetings. May 2 Advice from Alayence states that May Day celebrants mobbed an American captain’s motor-car and mortally wounded him and mauled his chauffeur. ROME, Alay 1. May Day was passed quietly. The shops were closed and no vehicles plied in the streets. No newspapers were published. BERLIN, Alay 1. The May Day meetings proved a fiasco owing to heavy rain. The Government, by a clever ruse, prevented the interruption of the public services, while satisfying the Labour extremists by offering a holiday, but adding that they would not be paid, and that it would be part of tlieir annual holiday. The result was that there were practically no applications for absence from duty. The school children were also offered a holiday if they brought a letter from their parents. The result was that scarcely any of the parents troubled to write. BRISBANE, Alay 1. Labour Day was, celebrated as a close holiday with the usual unionists’ procession.