MHNUUAQUNauenuenunnsenuenuenueaneaueanennnnneannanangnnnenananencancenuencanceacencenceansesnudutill ; May Day 1973 saw the working class around the world join hands in an almost unprecedented wave © actions signifying their solidarity against war and fot peace, for higher wages, protection from galloping inflation, an end to monstrous speed-up. They deman@ ed the release of political prisoners and an end @ racism and colonialism. . In one part of the world they struck back at imp rialism and colonialism and lay bare, for the world t see, the brutal heartless nature of the exploitativé system. i In the Socialist world the governments, the working class, farmers and intellectuals met as one, on @ gre : national holiday, to. express their solidarity with 4 f emrenetn : who work by hand and brain to produce the wealth? AL the world. They took stock of their great victonié the past year and dedicated themselves to even pe united efforts for their class, their countries’ an th world’s working people, for the year to come. In this section we compare the celebration of May Day in these two worlds. } iuuaneeecaveneanesccavoueseneecccvanuagennecuvuanenceracncagnnennccenaeagengasnettil For the first time — words of May Day mood By VLADIMIR SIMONOV Time is the reason. The Gf “For the first time” — I can- 70's of the 20th century wi of not recall any other time when down in history as yeu May Day reports by world tele- striking changes in internat be graph agencies were so satur- affairs. Free labor and § 4, ated with repetitions of these peace have, time out 0 as words. been an ideal for all peoples, For the first time in many am convinced, that behin years the Vietnamese didn’t grandiosity of the May Day an's have to go into the bomb shelt- monstrations, symbolizing ™ att ers on May 1. On this day they desire for free labor, rent were getting accustomed to the stands a new feeling, iat fact that the holiday of peace in our time alone, of the ¥ on and labor could really be mark- of a lasting peace for eac Se ed in a peaceful atmosphere. tinent. iu-wishet MOSCOW —Confidence that humanity can achieve a lasting peace permeated the May Day out- For the first time in fifty years, One must be a bare a pouring in Red Square. It was a demonstration of full support for the government and Communist Party Britain celebrated May Day on not to see the services © a : ; n Be program for peace enunciated at the 24th Congress of the CPSU. The Soviet peace offensive is very much a national scale. No papers came ed by the Soviet nach bri a part of the life of every Soviet citizen. They responded instantly when Brezhnev spoke ‘of the peace out, and the railways and -sub- BCoIEVInE petente ay monoli accords on Vietnam. They had just completed a month of meetings declaring their solid continuing sup- ways did not function: several all of us closer to the took tw? port of Vietnam, which has always been the program of the Soviet government. Lenin, Marx and Engels million people took part in the of labor and peace. It gra were the subject of the huge posters on the buildings surrounding the demonstration. strikes of working-class soli- years for. the peace cpsl Represented on the posters, equally with foreign policy, were the goals and achievements in domestic darity. B proclaimed at_the * de! policy. Streamers bore statistics which showed the big advances in tempo of the current five year plan— For the first time May Day was Congress in 1971, es west 8 the ninth. Slogans said the present plan has, in its two years and three months to date, surpassed the proclaimed a non-working day by some people +, ah eras entire production of the seventh five-year plan. Others said 1973 is “the decisive year,” and that all in India. At the mass rallies, In- “Red propaganda”, ey measly goals must be met and overfulfilled. dian government leaders and lated into constructive rmat eth Still other placards spoke of the performance in the production of oil, steel and coal. “Oil output working people took the floor of struggle for CS ence equalled 394 million tons in 1972; 500 million in 1975!" Steel reached “126 million tons in 1972; the one by one to more exactly map freedom and indepen e some” 1973 goal is 150 million.” out the road of economic and Such measures wet fe The Communist Party of Moscow was first to march into the Square. They seemed in their majority social reforms along which the thing Lenin dreamt Hie young, with women in equal numbers to men. Many of their banners said, “Always remember the deci- republic is marching. signed the first fore sions of the 24th Congress of the CPSU for peace and production.” “Workers of all nations, unite” was Contrary to the so-called theo- Act of the Soviet State reel 4 perhaps the slogan seen most frequently. ries of class peace and worker- cree on Peace _ an wet May Day—the international holiday for peace, independence and socialism—spirited as it always is in employer integration, the self- one of his articles: .:° eile Red Square, rarely, if ever, equalled this one of 1973 in the air of confidence and certainty that world same employers and their ideo- a greater number of iG a mets peace can be attained. logists, having looked out of the and clearest decisions 40€ gt a window on May 1, could see for ures which could really pene themselves the exceptional acti- peace.” Lenin’s peace vity, independence and maturity acquired the force of a be dest” of that class which they had _ influence on the people ee pres been on the point of “integrat- ies when the internation a oil ing”. tige of the socialist COM w i What accounts for the special had gained in strength. it he? scope of this holiday of labor? the West now venture G woul! What made the teletypes come no one is able) to drive # oct up with the words “for the first | between such notions as time” more often than usual? ism and peace. Wide protests hit Spain | In Spain, May Day was the the “Guerillas of King-Christ,” scene of wide protest through- beat up a number of priests who - out the country. At the same had just left a mass celebrated time the Labor ministry was by the auxiliary bishop of Mad- calling over radio and TV for rid, Msgr. Victorio Olivier. His “peace and happiness,” police sermon was “How to reflect, in and other forces of repression a Christian way, on the first of were being moved in to the large May.” The bishop, who attempt- of Sweden, flanked by a repre- : 6 industrial enterprises. ed to stop the terrorists, wa sentative of the Cambodian Port di f fascist i - In Barcelona, tensions already greeted by cries of “death to red patriotic National United Front, ugu esé e y heightened. by the assassination priests.” nee issued a sharp attack on the ee a! of a construction worker in In Baracaldo, near Bilbao, Nixon government’s bombing of - All May Day demonstrations ple for a work stopPe ay April, work stoppages and police fired on demonstrators Pambodid siStonaihe: bowl were prohibited in: Portugal. A Ist is not a legal he atio™ strikes took place in many in- Who marched to protest the ar- 7 stop te Pombing, long communique issued the day Portugal) and demonstt fore STOCKHOLM—Premier Palme dustrial sites. The SEAT factory, ‘est of several militant anti- honor the Paris agreement. Let before by the political police an- It was reported D7 uot Y employing over 24,000 workers, fascists. Cambodia decide its own future. nounced that a wave of preven- press correspondents ge | the largest in the country, struck Also, strikes, work stoppages There will only be suffering and tative arrests had taken place of night of April 30 sa o | since last week, was officially 2nd demonstrations took place no peace until the bombs stop “those individuals who are in- meetings “whose anno’ ith | | shut down. More than 7,000 in the Basque provinces and in © falling.” volved with, and suspects be- was made from . Mal workers demonstrated in front Navarre. Sweden’s Foreign Minister, !onging to socialist, anarchist mouth.” Other meeti? of the factory, and were attack- — : Wickman, speaking from the nd communist organizations.’ were reported in ™. bo” aus ed several times by. police. Law- Millions of Japanese work- same platform, said the Cambo- The same communique said class districts of co ind ; yers representing the workers ers turned out for May Day dian fighting would have been that since the beginning of the Porto, and several 10 pee have issued a writ against the rallies demanding the ouster over long ago except for the Year, 87 “activists,” among them trial sector of Setu illegal lock-out. of Premier Kakuei Tanaka who | direct intervention of the U.S. 47 umiversity and secondary reiro. ps“ In Madrid large demonstra- is being blamed for the rapid- “On one side stands a liberation SChool students, had been ar- About 20 leaflet bom rd tions, also attacked by police, | ly rising cost of living. Public | movement with popular support, Tested by the military police. off during the night Fons took place throughout the day. | opinion, according to recent | on the other an isolated terror Nevertheless, tens of thous- leaflets calling for o sity | In many parts of the city, red | polls, has swung sharply regime led by Lon Nol. It is in ands of leaflets were distributed tions all through the ety ‘ flags with hammers and sickles’ | against the ruling Liberal} defense of Lon Nol that bombs throughout the country April 30, Also, a bomb exploded 1 stl} were hung from trees and lamp- Democratic Party in Japan. are falling on defenseless people signed by the Communist Party ing of May | at the as” posts. A fascist terrorist group, in Cambodia.” of Portugal, calling on the peo- labor, causing muc ) PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1973—PAGE 6