A hundred years ago - 01/05/1920

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every day I will try to provide the most important events of the day a hundred years ago. If I forgot something that should be mentioned, let me know. Have a great day.

** 01/05/1919 **

- An incipient French railway strike developing into a general strike led by the CGT union. be on May 28, has the strike, which is rated as a showdown with the right-wing French government, broken off.

• The May Day the workers' movement is the first time legal in the German Reich in the states of Baden, lip, Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Anhalt holiday.
  
  
• The German writer Franz Jung arrives in Soviet Russia, where he will participate as a delegate of the KAPD at the Second Congress of the Comintern. In a spectacular action Jung had previously hijacked a trawler with a party colleague to go to Russia.