New-York tribune., 1919-05-01
international Holiday To Be
Celebrated More Exten.
sively Than Ever Before.
With Pleas for Prisoners
Debs's Release Is Sought
Garden Demonstration To
Be the Climax of Many
Parades in City Tonight

May Day, international holiday of
the Socialist party, will be celebrated
here to-day, probably more extensively
than ever before. In the last two
years the war has dampened demon
strations of the sort planned for this
year.
These include meetings throughout
the city morning and afternoon, cul-
minating in a great gathering in
Madison Square Garden in the even
ing, where protest will be made against
the continued Imprisonment of Tom
Mooney, who was sentenced TO die for
the San Francisco bomb outrage of
July %, 1916, and later had his SEN
tence committed. Fifteen parades will
De held, mostly to the Mooney meeting
in the evening.
Among the speakers at that meet
ing will be Mrs. Rena Mooney. Tom
MONEYS wife, who also was accused
OF the crime, but was acquitted. The
Mooney meeting will be under the
auspices of the United Hebrew Trades
and the Central Federated Union.
:, More than 5000 meetings will be held
throughout the United States TODAY.
ana more than 100 of these will take
place in New York City. The repeal Of
the espionage law, the release of all no.
lltlcal prisoners convicted during the
war;. especially Eugene V. Debs and
William D. Haywood; social legisla-
tion for the amelioration of the pres
ent conditions of unemployment and
a democratic peace will be demanded at
these meetings. Greetings will be sent
to the labor organizations in Europe
and throughput the world, and special
greetings will go forth to the working
People of Russia, Germany and Hun
triumphs in acquiring complete polit-
ical power" The withdrawal of the
Allied troops from Russia will be de-
manded.
The day is regarded by the radical
workers of the city as holiday, and
thousands are expected to remain idle
in response to the call of the Socialist
party and many labor organizations.
Thousands of leaflets have been dis
tributed by the Socialist party, the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the
United Hebrew Trades, the Interna-
tional Workers Defence Committee
and others calling upon their members
to quit work to-day and join in the
The officials of the Amalgamated, in
Guiding Sidney Hillman, president, and
Joseph Schlossberg, secretary, will take
an active part in the programme ar
ranged by the organizations, and will
address the meeting in Madison Square
Garden tonight
The Socialist party and it's branches
will have long list of events for the
day. The party branches of Manhattan,
Brooklyn and The Bronx will conduct
many meetings in all parts of the city.
At noon more than thirty thousand
workers of Brownsville will assemble
at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 229
Sackman Street, and will parade
through the section. The following
labor organizations will participate in
the parade: Bakers, Carpenters, Knee
Pants Makers, branches of the Anal
I'll Workmen's Circle, the Young Peo-
ple's Socialist League and the Social
ist party.
Special messages from Socialists and
labor leaders convicted during the war
will be read at all meetings. Eugene
v. Debs, now in prison at Moundsville,
w. Va, will send a special May Day
greeting, which will be circulated
throughout the United States Among
those who will send greetings will be
also Rose Pastor Stokes, Adolph Ger
mer, William F. Kruse, Kate Richards
O'Hare, J. Louis Engdahl and others.
At the meeting in the evening at
Madison Square Garden ballots will be
distributed calling for general strikes
throughout the country for the release
of Tom Mooney and Billings, convicted
with him. The ballot will also be