MAY DAY

Southland Times, Issue 22010, 9 May 1933, Page 7

MAY DAY

LONDON GATHERING LABOUR’S CHALLENGE TO FASCISM MR LANSBURY’S SPEECH (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, May 7.

Thirty speakers addressed a vest crowd at the May Day Labour celebration in Hyde JPark, amplifiers enabling their voices to be carried far in criticism of Herr Hitler and Sir Oswald Moseley. Beflagged and placarded processions, including a contingent of Oxford undergraduates with a banner emblazoned “We Won’t Fight,” arrived at the Marble Arch by seven routes, accompanied by bands, mounted and foot police marshalling an orderly demonstration. Mr George Lansbury, despite the percentage of Fascist and Hitlerite insignia in the procession, said the celebration challenged Hitlerism, Fascism, and Nationalism and all their implications as gospels of decadence and despair. Labour represented international solidarity. Lord Trenchard, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, aimed to transform the police into an upper class force because he could not trust a working class force to crush a Socialist Government. Lord Trenchard’s report disgraced himself and his administration, said ’Mr Lansbury. A resolution passed condemned capitalist attacks on the workers and challenged the growth of militarism and Imperialism. The crowds quietly dispersed.