The Archive · 1939

International Labour Day in France No Interruption in Work Owing to Situation

Paris, Apr. 30.

International Labour Day was celebrated calmly throughout the country today as the General Confederation of Labour instructed the working masses not to interrupt work owing the international situation.

In the capital itself, many workers went to the Bois de Vincennes to attend a demonstration taking place there. Speakers at the manifestation stressed that the seriousness. of the situation called for a union of the working world in the defence of peace.—Havas.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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