The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-11
Socialists Beginning to
Show Some Conception of
the Purpose Of May Day
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

THE liquor will be the dominating of the May
First of the American Appeal, the official organ of
the socialist party 1t had been announced that the editor
Eugene Debs had gathered his staff about him in Chicago
paramount problem the and that would BIZ ably
effectively with in the international Labor Day ed
ton of the socialists recognized mouthpece.
Socialists have never united the wet and dry ISSUE
Milwaukee, with its breWees and overwhelming German
population has always the stronghold social
ss Other sections notably those dominated by clergy
men who wored their way into the socialist party were just
MIwaukees socialist congressman Victor |. Berger
is today advocate of flight and beer and urging
this in Washington New York socialists split both
ways wet, dry 1t can, therefore, be i'm
aned what urore must have shaken the slight frame of
the socialist party when Debs made his historic announce
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This epochaI edition of the American appeal to have
been circulated in million copies The Hearst which
is wet heralded its coming. The Federated Press
of many labor papers, gave it publicity Heated et-
forts made every hand to interest in it. Muir
author of War-What For?" who is acting
tay of the party united their efforts toward this end
whispered around that it to be light wine and
Then the bubble burst and 1.-THE great editor
Internal socialist schemes had killed it.
has been announced instead that the American APP
peal will devote its May First issue to amnesty land in par
cuar restoration of citizenship to Eugene Debs Kirk
patrick declares according to the Federated Press that
the socialists will 90 of President Coolidge
ignoring him he has ignored them and will carry the Debs
amnesty direct the senate and the house and to the
American people.
american appear
speak ITSELF however. The socialists divided
amnesty issue much they the questions of
league of nations and other problems. The yell
low Daily Forward that has been pouring endless flood
the Golfers of the socialist party think of
amnesty only it pertains to in the
Union of Soviet Republics being held where they do no
harm to the Workers Power
If the socialists really interested in fighting for the
victims the class in the United States Communists
will hail all evidence that effect display their part
Of working sanity 1t accident that socialists
are from the law that practically all the victims of
capitalist Justice Communists members of the United
Mine Workers of America, the Industrial Workers of the
World and other labor organizations plunged in strike with
the employers the industrial battlefields
Ruthenbergs is before the supreme COURT
are awaiting trial in Mchgan Anita Whitney faces prison
in California where many workers already behind bars
the Bmba the heels of the Imprisonment OF
Sacco Vanzett in Massachusetts, captaisms bastes
open wide for workers in the Pittsburgh district and in
southern Illinois, within the past few days hundreds OF
workers arrested in the Furrers strike in New
York City Passaic textile strike in New Jersey
There is much be done here by all class conscious
workers. If socialists help raise the demand for Am
nesty" May Day. it indicates that they still have little
conception left of the purposes of abos International ho-
day.
When labor comes power it will have its own solution
for the problem thru the of alcohol Until then
labor afford to permit its ranks to be divided by the
capitalist thru the clever manipulation OF this issue TOR
its vile purpose.