The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
RECORD MAY DAY CELEBRATION
HELD IN NATIONS CAPITAL CITY
BY S. r. PEARLMAN.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

Especial to The Daily Worker)
WASHINGTON, D. C.-(By Mail. y
The capital city of the strongest cap
italist nation Of the world celebrated
labor's international holiday more sue
cessfully than at any time in the past
The Labor Lyceum was crowded to
capacity.
The children of the Junior Young
Workers League demonstrated the
remarkable progress which that group
has made during the past few months.
They opened the meeting by appear
ing in costumes representing various
types of workers and sang the Inter
national. A group of the children
typefed wage slavery by role which
showed them weighed down by chains
Of bondage. During the evening the
youngsters appeared in several
tableaux, including an acknowledge
ment of the significance of May Day
Another tableau showed the workers
of the world looking toward Soviet
Russia. Philip Shinberg, of the league,
recited "a Juniors Call" The entire
class closed the meeting by singing
the Red Flag. Washington comrades
have reason to be proud of the com
ing generation.
Comrade Louis Hindes, of Boston,
spoke in Jewish and was followed by
Comrade S. r. Pearlman, secretary of
the c. c. c., who appealed for sub
scriptions to the DAILY WORKER
and to the Workers Monthly. He an
nounced a series Of lectures on Lenin-
ism to be given by Comrade H. NJ
Wicks, of Philadelphia, in Washing
ton on May s, May Is and May %.
The principal speaker was Samuel
Sclarof, of Philadelphia, who delivered
splendid Communist speech Wars
are not only possible and probable,
but under capitalism, are inevitable"
said Sclarof. Against militarism and
Imperialism the workers of the world
protest on the First of May"
The speaker ridiculed the slogans
of the recent world slaughter, stating
that militarism had merely been trans
fered from Germany to France, to
England and even to the United
States, Wall Street flnanciers having
been the great victors of the war.
Morgan and company" said
Sclarof, took advantage of the OPP
portunity to take their pound of flesh
from the tortured bodies of European
workers" Continuing the speaker as
serted that the states of Central and
South America, of West India, and of
the Philippines are nothing more than
vassals of Wall Street bankers.
American Imperialism is rapidly ex-
banding thruout South America" said
the speaker. THE revolutionary spirit
Of the working class must destroy this
Imperialism before imperialism de-
stroys civilization"
Sclarof stated that Soviet Russia
has successfully emerged from block
ade, counter-revolution and civil war
and is distinctly on the way to stabil-
ity while every capitalist country in
Europe is on the brink of disaster.
In referring to America the speaker
stated that capitalism attacks the
militants of the labor movement first.
He referred to the prosecution Of the
Communists in Michigan and cited
this as evidence that the ruling class
in this country recognizes its real
enemies. "The capitalist class, thru
its ownership of the schools and the
newspapers. utilities those agencies to
poison the minds of the people, but
working class solidarity is fast ap-
preaching the time when it will ac-