The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
MAY DAY MEET
IN MIL WAUKEE
GREAT SUCCESS
Factory Toilers Reached
Thru Noon Meetings

May Day meeting OF the Workers
Party here was great success. The
workers filed the Freie Gemeinde
Hall to overlooking to listen to the
revolutionary singing and the speech
es by Tom Bell and Max Bedacht of
the Workers Party.
The success of the meeting is a tri-
butte to the vitality Of the party in
this city. The socialist party was un-
able to hold a meeting even tho Mil
waukee is called socialist city" be-
cause renegade socialists like Hoan
are in the city government.
The party here not only held huge
mass meeting but also utilized the 90
casion OF May Day as a day in which
to approach the workers In the great
industrial plants Of this city with the
message Of labor unity. All available
members we're on the job at the fac
tory gates in the morning distributing
May Day leaflets and leaflets announ-
cling the Workers Party meeting in
the evening
Noon hour meetings we're held at
many factory gates notably at the In
ternational Harvester Co., and the
Siemen Car Body corporation. At
these two plants hundreds of workers
gathered to hear the speakers in spite
of the amusements provided by the
bosses, such as horseshoe throwing.
The straw bosses were active
among the workers to prevent them
standing listening to the speakers.
In the International Harvester Co.
plant wages are as low as forty and
forty-hve cents an hour. Few if any
of the workers are organized, and the
company has formed social" affairs
to distract the attention of the work
ers from the burning needs of organ
ization.
The socialist party and the socialist
labor party did not attempt to reach
the workers in the factories. Possibly
they could not locate their few mem
bers to do the work. Certainly the So
cialist renegades in the city hall are
not interested in reaching the workers
with the message of struggle AGAINST
capitalism
MILWAUKEE,, (By Mail). - The
May Day celebration of the Milwau-
kee local of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing workers of America showed to
what depths the reactionary leader
ship of that organization is pushing
the organization in the working out
of the policy of cooperation with the
bosses. In spite of the fact that the
Milwaukee local of the Workers Party
offered the business agent of the
Amalgamated the services of a speak
er he declined the offer and selected
as speaker a catholic priest-a pro-
lessor at the catholic seminary of St.
Francis. AS between a working class
speaker and a representative Of the
church which is one of the greatest
weapons against the working class the
Hillman business agent chose the
priest
The priest praised Hillman highly.
Particularly did he laud him because
Of his policy of using the strike wea-
pom only as a last resort, and his de-
claration that the Amalgamated mem
bers would shoulder the burdens of
the clothing industry. How far Hill
man has gone in abandoning whatever
militant policies he once had can only
be measured in light of this testimo-
nal from the priest
The ideals of the Amalgamated
stated the reverend gent, consist in
collective bargaining with the boss
eE standards of production;
unemployment insurance; and the
Amalgamated banks. These things
which have turned the Amalgamated
from militant organization into an
organization as safe and sane" as any
to be found in the A. F. of L. consti-
tute the great achievements of the
Amalgamated. according to the priest
In these things the Amalgamated can
be sure of the cooperation Of the cath
Ollie church.
Among the members of the Anal
gamated present at the meeting much
dissatisfaction was expressed with
the audacity OF the officials in allow.
ing priest to speak at their May
Day meeting. The members of the
Workers Party saw TO II that the
workers received invitations to attend
the May Day meeting OF the Workers
Party 80 that they could get the rot
ten taste Of the priests cooperation
between capital and labor" dope out
OF their mouths.
The speech of the priest and the
entertainment Of the burlesque show
variety made up the May Day clebra-
ton OF the Amalgamatod here. Not
one note OF internationallsm was
struck. The whole thing was mere.
ly the carrying out of a custom which
has lost all its significance under the
present leadership OF the Amalgamat.
ed.