With the exception of the Communist May Day demonstration, all other May Day celebrations passed without clashes.
The Communist demonstration was interfered with by the police. This led to a clash with the demonstrators, many of whom were injured, including 50 Jewish workers.
Unlike the May Day celebration of last year, the demonstrations of the Jewish labor parties were unmolested. They demonstrated exclusively in the Jewish quarter of the city. The Polish Socialist parties marched separately. Separate demonstrations were also held by the Jewish socialist parties, Bund, Left Poale Zion and Right Poale Zion. The size of these demonstrations was about one-fourth of the number of participants last year. Two reasons were given for the smaller number, first, that May Day occurred during the Passover week when many of the workers from the provinces return home and second, because the memory of last year’s bloody clashes is still fresh.
The synagogues in the city arranged for early holiday services so that the worshippers might return home before the street demonstrations were scheduled to begin.
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