May Day
DVD Black & White Silent 1939 4:07
Video not currently available. Get in touch to discuss viewing this film
Summary: Labour Demonstration and March from Bermondsey to Hyde Park
Title number: 21050
LSA ID: LSA/27629
Description: Protestors march down the street carrying banners. Floats follow: one has a banner saying, ‘Pacts with Fascists, Bombs for Democrats’. Men follow holding ‘Socialism or Smash’. Another float has ‘Organized labour resist conscription’. Band follows this. ‘Co-operators combine for collective well-being’, says another float. There is a tableau stage float with a woman sitting in a destroyed house and fascism and war on the back. Another banner says, ‘ War will cease when men refuse to fight’. Democracy is Peace USSR, Britain, France, US’. Speeches at Hyde Park from Herbert Morrison.
Credits: Bermondsey Borough Council (Filmmaker)
Keywords: Bermondsey; march; Politics; Demonstration
Related
Comments