The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-28
N. Y. may DAY
TO Be Held IN
COOPER union
Conference Issues ReSo-
luton

NEW YORK, April 26.-c. (. Ruth
enberc and VIM. F. Dunno Of the cen
trial executive committee of the Work.
ers (communist) Party are two of the
speakers invited to address the united
front May Day mass meeting at
Cooper Union, Cooper Square and
Eighth street, New York City, on Sat
urday, May I, at 2 p. m. Other speak
ers include NJ. J. olgin. VIM. w. Vein
stone, Bertram Wolfe and Charles
Krumbein. This is only one of many
meetings arranged by the labor con-
ference for the May Day celebration,
1926, all to be held simultaneously on
Saturday, May First.
Many Halls.
The conference committee has is
sued statement explaining that they
had to divide their forces in so many
halls because of the impossibility of
getting hall big enough to hold all
of the workers who are joining in this
demonstration.
The resolution adopted by the con
ference on the meaning of the May
Day celebration this year follows:
Resolution.
ION May /, 1885, the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor initiated a general
strike thruout the country in behalf
of the S-hour day Later the A. F. of
L. proposed to the International So
cialist Congress in 1889 that May /
be made an international labor day.
The Social International Congress
unanimously adopted the proposal
May Day VS.. Labor Day.
AS the policies of the American Fed
GRAFTON OF Labor changed, thanks to
the expansion Of industry, its trustifl-
cation and the flood of millions of i'm
migrants from the south and south
eastern Europe, millions of agricultu-
raj laborers and poor peasants with
no experience in industry or working
class organization, who were imported
as unskilled labor made necessary by
this expansion, and made possible the
division of the workers of this coun-
Try into unskilled and mostly foreign
, Born on the one hand and the handful
organized into the A. F. of L., the
aristocracy of labor-the A. F. of L.
gave up May 1 as its holiday and
adopted Labor Day." the first Monday
in September, the day handed down
to the workers by the bosses, as the
holiday of the American workers
this corresponding more and more
with the policy of class collaboration
adopted by the A. F. of l.. bureau
crazy.
Holiday of Thousands.
While the A. f. of L. abandoned
May 1, the revolutionary workers of
this country and of New York in par
ticular have been true to the revolu-
tionary traditions of 1886 and have
every year laid down their tools and
shown their solidarity with the rest OF
the workers of the world. AS the rev.
dictionary and progressive elements
have Increased their number in the
labor. movement, so has May Day
again become the holiday of increas-
ing thousands of American workers,
Vicious Attacks.
This year May 1 takes place at q
time when the capitalist class con
ducts vicious attacks upon the work
ers. May Day is the day upon which
the workers of the entire world, more
than ever, come to feel the ties that
bind the toilers of all lands together
in their common struggle against
those that rob and Cypress them. May
Day Is the day of the union OF the
workers Of the world
This year. more than ever, the unity
OF the working class is needed In
Passaic. where thousands of workers
are trying to resist wage cuts and to