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Show ORGANIZED LABOR SUPPORTS REBELS I Incendiary Speeches Uttered Without Much Effect in , Many American Cities NUMEROUS CLASHES H OCCUR IN PARIS H Three Persons, One a Woman ; Killed; Many Are ; Wounded j WASHINGTON, May 1. Plans a " radical leaders for nation-wide May JH Day demonstrations, involving strikes JH and plotted assassinations of more H than a score of federal and state offi- ,H cials, fell flat, reports to the depart- H mem of justice tonight indicated. il Extra precautions taken by federal ll and state authorities to block the jl radicals' widely disseminated appeal ll for "a May Day show of power" were '1 . described at the department as- decid- il cdly successful. '1 Reports to the department men- j ' tloned a number of strikes institutaW VH ; during the day, but in nearly, ir?ery " ll ; case the reporting agent empt feed , ; that walkouts 'were local in nafu,. : and -! due to the regular May-TJay expiration ' of wage contracts; ' ill Results Negligible'.-!'- H L The appeal of 'the radicals Jfor. a flH Wmonstratton to Hie 'government in H - behalf of soviet Hassia also was with- IH 1 out avail, tho reports indicated. v In- H ; c en diary speeches and demands that Hl the United States resume relations Sl - with Russia were made at meetings 1 in "several cities, Assistant Attorney- 1 : General Garvan declared, but the net fll result was negligible. 1 Despite the fact that there wero no ll reports of attempted assassination or 9 ( public officials, it was said tonight H that the government intended to main- ll . tain its guard over the persons threat- H - cned for some time. 'H Few Arrests Made. H CHICAGO. May 1 May Day pass? '1 quietly 111 the central states and iI.vj west, virtually no disorder being re- H ported, although federal, stale an! city forces had made elaborate prep- orations to deal with threatened dis turbances. Strikes were called in a number of cities and mass meeting-. were held in Chicago and elsewhere. but all were conducted peacefully. Radical literature was distributed In some places and a few arrests were ' Hl A strike of cooks and waiters in a ' '1 number of Chicago hotels and restaur- JjH ants and the general confusion inci- , dent to the annual spring moving day, r'll when scores of tenants refused to va- fl cate their apartments, largely, over- 'il shadowed May Day developments. I'l Roundup of Criminals. lil The police continued their roundup 1 J of criminal suspects but Chief of Po- '1 lice Garrity said the arrests had no H connection with expected May Day H disorders. More than 1,000 were in -JH custody today. H A red flag discovered flying from ;H a pole in a school yard was removed jH by a former lieutenant and the Star IH and Stripes substituted while a crowd IH cheered.- j jH Debs in Prison. IH A storekeeper who had built oat- side his shop a representation 'of a ' prison wall, with a photograph of Eu- ? geqe V. Debs behind the hars, was or- dered to dismantile the display and a ! crowd that had gathered was dis- persed by the police. 1 Clothing workers on the west side LH participated in what they termed "a lH 24 hour strike against the imprison- H mcnt of political offenders," but cloth- jH ing manufacturers said the holiday H was recognized in all union contracts. Ijl ' Two-thirds of Kansas 'miners were H reported idle today. H Riots in Paris. H PARIS, May 1 May day passed H wilh a series of small riots and disor-ders disor-ders In which at least throe persons were killed, one of them a woman, and many wounded, but without the' decla-ration decla-ration of a nation-wide general jstrike, which the union workers expected from the General Federation of labor. flH The federation issued a 1,700 word statement urging nationalization, but IH not referring either to a continuation IH of the strike or a return .to work af- H tor May day. The situation this ove- El ning remained as muddled as it has 'H been for tho past few days, tho labor element awaiting orders which did not come. . The railroaders announced that their H strike, which is to be devoted after :'H today to enforce nationalization is al- jH ready 50 per cent complete. Official 'H reports from government sources say that the operations today wero not far H from normal on cortain lines, the most important trains moving in and out 'H H (Continued on Page Ten)' I Precaution by I : U. S. Dampens I 'Show of Power' (Continued From Page 1) of Paris. A limited suburbnn service was maintained, Many Police Wounded. H Twenty-seven police were wounded, H, three of them seriously and many of H, them were bruised. H' Madame Le Groso was wounded by Bs a bullet as she watched the man! res-! talion from a window in the Place de la Republique and died later. More than 100 persons -were arrest-ed arrest-ed and the number is growing, but many were quickly released. The coolness and bravery of high school and technical students who vol-unteerod vol-unteerod to run motor omnibuses occa-stoned occa-stoned much applause but their efforts in breaking up the transportation strike were the primary cause of most of the disorders. In the Place de la Republique buses drove through hostile crowds who showered them wfth stones and broke the windows of the buses, but they continued the service which was organized at the. instance of the government. Deputies Wounded. Two memoers of the chamber of deputies, M. Viallant-Couturier, whose prosecution is sought by the govern-ment govern-ment for alleged incitement of the mil-itary mil-itary to disobedience and Alexandre E. Blanc, wearing a deputy's tri-color sash and a flaming red tie, were wounded in a collision with the ,po-lice ,po-lice in the Place de la Republique. They addressed a crowd which was j shouting "Class of 1918!" in connec-tion connec-tion with the agitation for the dem&b-llization dem&b-llization of that class. The deputies' harrangues were 30 phrased in appeal-ing'fdr appeal-ing'fdr quiet that the crowd became greatly excited and a clash with the Republican guards and police followed. M. Blanc received a gash on the head, said to have been from a sabre; M. Yaillant-Couturier came off with a tap of a night stick on the head and a dani-aged dani-aged nose. Police Annoyed. A majority of the crowds seemed mainly occupied in amusing theni-selves theni-selves by annoying the .police, without risking getting into trouble, j When the nJght services on the j northern and eastern railways began j at 10 o'clock this afternoon, it was 1 found that all the employes were at their posts indicating that the rail- road strike will have failed by Sunday , or Monday. I May Day In Glasgow, j LONDON, May 1. The May day cel-jebratlon cel-jebratlon at Glasgow was on an unpre-I unpre-I cedented scale. A demonstration was held at Glasgow green, at which a 1 crowd of -1,000 persons ndopted a resolution res-olution calling Tor the establishment of a co-operative commonwealth. The ', resolution extended fraternal greet-i greet-i ings to soviet Russia and proclaimed i the right of the Irish people to chooso j their own form of government. Trotzky Is Busy. I PETROGRAD, May 1. Leon Trotzky, Trotz-ky, bolshevik war minister, has ad-i ad-i dressed a mobilization appeal to the 'large cities of Russia. He declares1 j that the central committee had de-' de-' cided to enforce .new mobilization for i the western front and Ukraine and di-' di-' rects thaht they "fling out an appeal! for volunteers and utilize May day for ; , propaganda purposes." ' ) May Day in Rome. 1 ROME, M:.y 1. The only May day , 'disorders so far reported, occurred at; j Turin, where tho demonstrators tried to force their way toward the center I of the city and attacked the royal j guards with revolvers and hand gren-; gren-; ades. Several of the guards were ! wounded, but repelled the attack, killing kill-ing two and wounding several among 'the crowd. |