Evening star., 1938-05-01
MAY DAY RALLIES
. WORLD WORKERS
Comintern Calls for Front
as Soviets Prepare
Show of Might.
BY the Associated Press.

SNOW OF Mlgnt.
BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, April 30-A May Day
manifesto issued by the Communist
International today called upon So
cialist and trade union internationals
ito form a united workers front
against Japanese, German and Italian
aggression"
The appeal was published as thou
sands Of troops and hundreds of war
weapons were massed in Moscow for
Soviet Russia's military display in
Red Square tomorrow in celebration
of May Day.
"The May Day review OF revolu-
tionary forces of the international
proletariat has unusual and militant
significance this year" the mani
festo said. Never since the World
War has there been such q sharp
international situation as at present" I"
Review Of Readiness.
That tomorrow's demonstration
would be show Of national might
rather than a display OF proletarian-
ism was emphasized in newspapers,
which referred to the parade as a
review of our mobilized readiness. I"
Slogans officially announced for ban
ners also proclaimed pride in the
red army, navy and air force.
May Day preparations confirmed
rumors OF further purge in the Red
army, when the names Of three high
officers were omitted from orders in
connection with the parade.
The officers were Marshal A. I.
Yegoroff, vice commissar of defense;
Comdr. I. P. Beloff, stationed at
Minsk in Soviet White Russia, and
Gen. P. E. Dybenko, commander of
the strategically important Leningrad
military district. Rumors OF their re-
moval had circulated since February
without confirmation.
All three OF the officers were men,
bers of court-martial which sem
fenced eight generals to death last
June.
Aim to Attack Russia Charged.
The May Day manifesto said one
fourth of humanity was at war and
that Germany was threatening
Czechoslovakia, France, Lithuania,
Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands,
the Balkans and the Scandinavian
countries In an effort to get raw
materials and man power for a great
war against Soviet Russia.
Great Britain also was denounced
and accused Of waiting to share China
with Japan and "clandestinely direct
ing German Fascism eastward
against the country of the Soviet. :"
The manifesto said the responsibility
OF the United States, Britain and
France in the various conflicts Law in
their tolerance of Fascist aggression.
War is not to be avoided by per-
mlttlng instigators to rob and kill
other people, it continued. Wars
are averted by firm policy of timely
curbing OF the Fascist robbers. They
cynically lie to you who assert the
governments Of England. France and
the United States are powerless to halt
international Fascist plundering."
World Labor Front spurred.
In recent years little attention has
been given in Soviet Russia to inter-
national labor solidarity. Numerous
banners being prepared for tomorrow's
parade, however, emphasized this idea.
Let us strengthen the international
ties OF the working class Of the U. S.
S. r. with the working class in capi-
talist countries" was one slogan.
up with the banner Of international
proletarian solidarity" was another.
Units which will take the cath of
allegiance to the Soviet in tomorrow's
ceremonies have been rehearsing for
the parade for the past several nights
Moscow was ablaze with red bunt-
ing and red flags Gigantic pictures
and statues of Bolshevisms founding
fathers-Marx, Engels. Lenin and
Stalin-looked down from the fronts
OF buildings in downtown squares.
London Takes Precautions.
LONDON, April 80 P).-Remem-
bering past May Day clashes between
Leftist workers and Sir Oswald Mos
ley's Blackshirts, London authorities
today Cancelled Sunday leave for
hundreds of policemen.
Upwards Of $4,000 paraders under
auspices of the Labor party and the
Trades Union Congress will converge
on Hyde Park in six columns for
the days big rally under the slogan
arms for the Spanish government"
Sir Oswalds small Black Shirt band
will march through hostile districts
for its own meeting. Sir Oswald has
dropped the word "Fascists" as the
name of the organization which is
now British Union"
Marchers OF both groups have been
banned from the big East End area
for months, but that has not stopped
head cracking.
Mexicans Parade Today.
MEXICO CITY, April 80 (P.-
Mexico labor will stage a mammoth
parade tomorrow in May Day celebra-
ton Of progress toward its goal of
democracy of workers"
Union members who have drilled
in Mexico's side streets for the parade
counted two major steps toward their
goal in the last two months: Expro-
priation of foreign oil companies
March 1s, and completion of plans to
deliver the national railways to en-
ployes.
The Railway Workers Union for
mally will begin operation of the rail-
ways atsmidnlght under an agreement
with the government. which took over
the system last June. The union Is
to give the government 5.64 per cent
of the gross revenues starting next
year.
Labor leaders voiced hope that
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