Paris, May 2.
This has been a remarkably quiet Labour Day. It happened to fall on a Sunday, so that there was really very little excuse for demonstrating or manifesting or agitating or any other process calculated to strike dismay into the hearts of the bourgeois. The tramway, omnibus and train services ran as usual, and the only workers who observed the occasion to any extent were the taxicab drivers. The only newspapers which failed to appear were the Labour organs—in their case a matter of principle—and the Continental edition of the " Daily Mail," because the English printers employed by this paper con-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.