Workers Around World Rally on May Day

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Workers Around World Rally on May Day

By ANITA SNOW
Associated Press Writer





HAVANA (AP) -- Cuban President Fidel Castro, leader of one of the world's last communist regimes, commemorated May Day on Sunday by demanding the United States expel a Cuban-born militant accused of blowing up a civilian jetliner. Elsewhere in the world, millions of workers staged largely peaceful rallies to press for better conditions or protest government policies.

But in Moscow, celebrations of the international workers' holiday turned violent when radical activists from the National Bolshevik Party and the Red Youth Avant-Garde political group clashed with riot police after several activists were detained.

In Zimbabwe, despite earlier fears of a ban on May Day gatherings, the southern African country's umbrella group of trade unions held 17 rallies to celebrate the workers' day holiday with no police interference.

China used the day to single out thousands of laborers and a few athletes for recognition, dubbing them "model workers," while the weeklong labor day holiday started with visits to squares and parks for kite flying and recreation.

Up to 5,000 Bangladeshis demanded the country's first ever minimum wage - $50 a month. The South Asian country has 1.8 million workers in about 2,500 garment factories, exporting more than $5 billion in textiles each year.


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Workers around the world need more respect!!!