The Washington herald., 1921-06-26
Communist Propaganda.

II VIE IOHOWmB ID inc udnsldIon Oi HdhhSslo
published by the Communists and scattered
through the and cities of Lithuania
few days before the May day celebration:
Friends! Workers! Soldiers! and those stricken
by poverty! The representatives of the international
proletariat at their conference in Paris in 1889 de-
cded to make the first of May of each year the
worlds workers holiday. From that time it has
become the custom Of the workers OF all the
tries in the world leave their factories mills mines,
etc. on the first of May, and to their interna-
tional solidarity by gathering at public meetings
where they may refresh their spirits and mobilize
their strength against their deadly enemies-he dlers
and the capitalists The first OF May is the day when
the workers review their past successes, recount
their losses (sacrihces) and proclaim their further
fight against the worlds parasites. The kings and
their ministers, the merchants, the manufacturers,
the priests and the bourgeois governments tremble
the sight of the gigantic power which being DEM
onsratcd by the working classes the first of May.
Several years ago when the bourgeois classes
ruled all the world and the proletarat just
beginning to organize its strength, the workers used
to celebrate the first day of May by carrying their
red flags and banners along the streets and demand
ing from the fourishing capitalists such simple
things eight hours a days work, workers unions,
freedom in strikes. workers production etc.
"The time has changed everything. Just before
It's development, at the expense of the laboring
classes, and they by falling down has caused the
greatest general the world has wit
messed.
"The recent struck the old world at its .ioun-
dation and gave mortal blow to the dominant cap
alism The long oppressed class of people up
against the oppressors. The Russian workers were
the first to throw off the capitalists yoke and take
the reins of government into their own hands. Ger
man workers winning already their battles. The
proleariat of England, Italy. France and America is
rising up against the capitaisc order. Millions of
the workers in the oppressed colonies doing the
same.
"The proetariat will celebrate the first day of
successes in the past The poor workers Of Russia,
who compose the flower of the social revolution will
celebrate the first of May by placing corner
stone to the palaces of their social revolution In
deed, the III Communist International has become
today the guide of the worlds proletarat.
To-day is the International Workers Holiday.
The Lithuanian Communist party hereby proclaims
the general strike and calls all the workers and
soldiers of Lthuana to take part in the demonstra-
tions and to show good will and sympathy to the in
ternational prolcarat Let the cities towns, villages
and barracks in Ithuania resound with revolutionary
songs and echoes Let all Lithuania hear these
voices:
Long live the first OF May! Down with the capi-
talst government! Long live the proetaan dictator
shipl Long live the social worlds revolution! Long
live the Communism! Long live the Communist (II)
International! Down with big landowners merchants,
manufacturers, priests and bourgeois government!
Long live the workers and soldiers Soviet govern
in Lthuania The earth and its riches belong to
the workers. Long live the Lithuanian Communist
Party!!"