Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-19

and others expressed the opinion amid
general applause, that it was time for
the Socialists to place themselves at the
head of the movement with open colors.
Shevitch said there were three classes in
the movement; the rogues, the fools and
the Socialists; 1t was time that the
Socialists killed the rogues, converted
the fools and gave sound direction to
the movement. The motion of Com.
rade Shevitch was then unanimously
adopted and Shevitch and Vogt ap-
pointed to draw the appeal.
A number of committees were ap.
pointed to visit the several organizations
that will meet during the week.
The following is the appeal issued by
the committees:
TO THE WORKING PEOPLE OF NEW YORK
AND VICINITY.
BROTHERS! The lst of May 1890 will
be a red letter day in the history of the
labor movement.
The resolution adopted by the Conven-
ton of the American Federation of La,
bor, to proclaim on that date the eight
hour wo'k day, was enthusiastically
endorsed by the great international La
Dor Convention which WAS held last
summer in Paris, and resulted in a
powerful international movement, that
has spread like wild-ire in all civilized
countries. Hundreds of thousands of
workers in France, Spain, Germany and
England will assemble on May 1st to
proclaim the universal solidarity Of
the workers, and their determination
to carry on their struggle to its only
logical end, the Emancipation of Labor
from Capital and the abolition of wage
slavery.
May 1, 1890, is only a forerunner
of the great day of the Declaration of
Independence of Labor throughout the
world
The Socialists in all countries stand in
the vanguard of this movement. AS
their great thinkers, from Louis Blanc
and Robert O,en to Karl Marx and
Ferdinand Lassalle, were the first to
discern the great International mission
of the working class to give humanity
that industrial freedom without which
political liberty must remain sham, so
do their men of action now stand in the
foremost ranks of those who struggle
for the great victory which, by abolish
ing misery, will strike at the very root of
ignorance and oppression.
Thus in nearly all the European coun.
tries the labor movement has become
identified with Socia ism. In Germany
one million and half voters have few
weeks ago manifested their allegiance to
its principles at the polls. In France, Italy
and Spain there is no lab movement
outside of the socialistic ranks. Even in
conservative old England men like John
Burns, Hyndman, William Morris, and
others. all imbued with the principles of
Socialism, have now come to the front
of the movement, and before them those
anliquated remnants of past generations,
who still hoped to solve the labor ques-
tion on the basis of existing relations
between capital and labor, dwindle into
insigniticance.
In the present state of Industrial devel.
opment any economic labor movement
not tending towards the ultimate abo-
lition of wage slavery is doomed to i'm.
potency and defeat.
Therefore, workingmen of New York,
the Socialist Labor Party of this city
appeals to you to join hands and hearts
on the first of May with the proletarians
of the world and to assemble on Union
Square. at o'clock p. M, to proclaim
your demand for a shorter work-day
and to raise the banner of social eman.
cipation.
Let each organization assemble at its
headquarters and march in body to the
square.
Eminent speakers, representing nearly
all the organized trades of the city, will
address the meeting.
Show to those who rob you of the
fruits of your labor, show to those Grim.
inal and corrupt classes who now control
the politics and the social conditions of
this country that the labor movement in
New York is not dead, that it is stronger
than ever, not only in numbers but in
spirit and in purpose.
Come one and all on the evening of
May /, to Union Square.
THE FIGHT HOUR COMMITTEE, SOCIAL
IST LABOR PARTY, SECTION n. Y.