Ceylon Huge May Day Celebration in

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The May Day rally in Colombo exceeded all expectations, Galle - Face Green was almost completely filled, It may have been the largest rally ever held in Ceylon. IJiven conservative estimates put the crowl at 100,000,

The huve turn out was attributed to enthusiasn among the masses at the prospect of a united front between the LSSP (Trotskyists), the Communist Party end MEP (a smaller grouping led by Philip Ganakardune; tha organisations which jointly sponsored the rally,

Separate rallies were staged by the SLFP (left-tourgeois party now holding government power) and the UNP (right-wing bourgeois party). The UNP meeting drew a crowl of five or six thousand, Tho turnout at the SLIP Tally was about two thousand.