MAY DAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19830, 3 May 1927, Page 7

MAY DAY

CELEBRATIONS IN ENGLAND Hyde Park Demonstration Decides “Baldwin Must Go.” SOCIALIST COUNCIL FLIES RED FLAG (By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.] Received May 2, 7.30 p.m. (A and N. Z. and Sun) LONDON, May 1. The principal May Day celebration .in London was the 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 hoisting of the red flag on tho municipal buildings. Patriots hauled it down and the Mayor, Aiderman Sullivan, then personally hoisted another. Two loyal aidermen admitted that they inspired the removal of the first flag. Massed choirs of young ladies robed in white and wearing red ties were a feature of the demonstration. Five thousand young people attended at Albert Hall in the evening when a resolution was adopted favouring a national general strike to prevent the passing of the Trades Union Bill. 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, in a speech at Derby, said he never encouraged class warfare but the Bill was a mean-spirit-ed attempt to injure a section of the workers. The next Labour Government’s first act would be to repeal the measure.

GERMAN DEMONSTRATION EIGHT-HOUR DAY DEMANDED. SOCIALISTS AND TRADE UNIONISTS PARADE. BERLIN, May 1. One hundred thousand Socialists and trade unionists, carrying Red Flags and banners inscribed “Hands Off China,” took part in the May Day procession, chiefly for the purpose of demanding an eight-hour day for all workers.

ON STUPENDOUS SCALE CELEBRATIONS IN MOSCOW. I SPECTACULAR MARCH PAST LENIN’S TOMB. MOSCOW, May 1. j It is estimated that 500,000 civilians I and thousands of troops participated in tho demonstrations in the Red Square • vzhich began at dawn with the blare of ; tifty silver trumpets. ; Aeroplanes with red streamers were flying above and a spectacular march past Lenin’s tomb lasted for eight hours. The celebrations throughout the country were on a stupendous scale. By means of wireless signals the troops everywhere took the oath simultaneously. MOSCOW FESTIVITIES ORATORS’ HARANGUES MASSES NEED DAY OF BEST Received May 2, 8.45 p.m. (Times) LONDON, May 2. The Riga correspondent of The Times states that May Day festivities in Moscow included anti-religious performances. Wireless loud-speakers installed in the streets to enable the crowds to listen to the harangues of orators were busy all day long. May 2 was also proclaimed a holiday to enable the masses to rest after the strenuous demonstrations on May Day.