Mass May Day Parades were held in this city, Haifa, Jerusalem and Tiberias and smaller demonstrations were held in a number of smaller cities and towns yesterday as Israel workers celebrated the traditional first of May holiday.
Some 30,000 workers and youth group members paraded on foot and in trucks in a three-hour parade in which marching groups were set off by hundreds of floats demonstrating various Histadrut and cooperative achievements in industry and agriculture. In Haifa some 45,000 persons marched. Labor attaches of the American and British Embassies viewed the Tel Aviv parade from the reviewing stand on which Labor Minister Golda Myerson and Histadrut chief Mordecai Namir stood.
In both Tel Aviv and Haifa Communists joined the line of march. In Haifa when the Communists carried signs not approved by the sponsoring committee and shouted antigovernment slogans they were put out of the line of march by Mapai guards. This caused a major street clash. In Tel Aviv the Communists were allowed to remain, but shouts of "down with the Communists" were heard from the sidelines there 250,000 persons watched.
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