The Washington times., 1929-05-01
MAY DAY RIOTS
IN EUROPE'S
CAPITALS
.(continAed from First Page

(Continued from hIrst FageJ
majority of them in steady jobs.
All our enlightened industrial
leaders have come around to the
policy Of the liberal wage. Those
employers who stand out against
the policy merely put q sprag In
the wheel Of American prosperity.
Reassuring improvements
Employment this year has SO far
shown ,reassuring Improvements
over the corresponding period Of
last year. Payroll totals are de.
cidedly improved. Earnings are
higher while unemployment has
been reduced.
Except for conditions in coal and
textiles, which have not yet yielded
to efforts at stabiliZation, industry
In general is in a sound and peace
ful state.
Relations Harmonious
Relations between worker and en-
ployer throughout our national in
dustrial system have never been
more harmonious. Nothing IL In
sight to disturb this era Oh good
feeling in industry.
give labor the slightest uneasiness
is the continued extension OF auto
matte machinery with a tendency
10 displace workers for a tenn
porary period.
This problem is now receiving at
tention on every hand, at the hands
of employers as well as by labor
and by governmental agencies. The
fact is recognized that such unem-
ployment as results from the in
PRODUCTION of machinery Is only
temporary, nevertheless employers
have seen the patent fact that busi'
ness in general suffers when any
considerable number of our people
are reduced In purchasing power for
even q temporary period.
Maximum Employment
Maximum employment for the
maximum number of our people Is
at all times essential to our con-
tinued prosperity. The problem Of
labor displacement by machinery
thus affects employers as much as
it distresses labor.
In the long run every advance in
Industrial technique only ends in
Industrial expansions with new re.
suits and employments.
The immediate problem before
our industrial leaders Is so to in
troduce new machinery with q
minimum of human displacement.
Apart from this natural effect Of
progress and aside from adjust
ments necessary in certain branches
of our textile industry and in some
bituminous coal districts nothing
is in sight to interfere with an.
other year of activity in industry.
LONDON, May 1 Q.N.S.).-Eng-
lish communists staged May Day
demonstration in this city, while a
number of men and women workers
went upon a one-day strike. Thou
sands Of factory and office workers
took advantage of the occasion to
go picnicking in the country and
the trains to seashore resorts were
crowded.
BERLIN, May QN.S).-Fice
hundred policemen fought q battle
royal with a mob Of more than
1000 which attempted to storm
police headquarters today as one
incident in the May Day demon
strations planned throughout the
city.
The police succeeded in driving
back the mob by the liberal use
of their night sticks. Fire engines
stood ready, the firemen prepared
to turn their hoses on the crowd,
should the police fail to hold them
in check, but the police gained the
upper hand unassisted.
Several shots were fired at the
policemen from the windows Of
nearby buildings, but all went wild.
Two policemen were injured by
stones and other missiles. About
120 OF the demonstrators were ar
rested.
NEW YORK. May u.N.S.).-New
York CITY was to witness its first
May Day parade since 1915 today.
Thousands of workers, communists.
both pale pink and fiery red, and
Representatives Of hundreds of labor
unions were scheduled to assemble
in Union Square at ! p. m. and
start a long march through the
principal thoroughfares.
The procession was to be led by
brass band Of negro musicians
and five striking textile workers
from Gastonia, N. G.
KINGSTON, N. Y, May
Q.N.Sl.-Union plumbers of King
ston were scheduled to 90 on strike
today in their fight for a five-day
week and an increase Of 10 per
cent in wages.
Union carpenters, painters and
electricians have been out for the
past three weeks, the master con-
tractors having refused to meet
similar demands on their part.
LONDON, May i Q.N.Sl-Thirty
thousand Japanese engaged in a
May Day demonstration at Hibiva
Park, in Tokyo, said an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from that city
this afternoon. A heavy rain damp
ened the enthusiasm Of the demon
strators. There were no disturb
ances.
MOSCOW, May, ! Q.N.S)-Half a
million men and women took part
in gigantic May, Day parade here
today.
Cheering and singing, the COM
munists marched through Red
Square bearing proletarian and