The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
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Uphold the Revolutionary
Tradition!
BY WILLIAM F. dunno.

THE FOURTH OF JULY the anniversary the decision of
the American coOnsts to by any all
English monarchy and establish themselves nation.
The tradition Of the United Of respect
is revolutionary tradition. More than that revolutionary
tradition of which the workers farmers
bearers because the oppressed descendants of the
s IRISH Scotch and Dutch peasany which had been beggaed
first by the breakdown of feudasm
the revolutionary armies who fought for
American independence only be thrown debtors prisons
feon brand placed on them when the revolution
AIRY had ended.
THE founding fathers were the early aristocrats who took
to themselves the fruits of the revolutionary struggle and
framed constitution based property rights They
representatives of the landlord trading and commercial
who held and drove labor from shutdown black
white saveshe nucleus of the modern American workngcass
The farmers and workers got nothing from the for indie
penence What they have made as class since that
time has been made of the
on the of the exploiting class which seeks disguise
and distor the history OF the revolutionary struggle
AS in France where the fall of the Baste marked the
of the third esatethe trading power
but was achieved by the bloody sacrifices which the young work.
ngcass laid the altar of freedom, in America the
onay war fought by workers and farmers marks the opening
OF what appears endless lane of opportunity exploit
ers of the to consolidate and increase their wealth
in of The DAILY WORKER for today the tale of the
early history of the United States of the revolutionary sug
and merchant astocra and commoner told should
told These articles shatte the conventional capitalist analysis
OF the revolutionary epoch in history and give
American workingcIass its proper place in history.
We are proud OF the part our class played in the stern sug
gle for independence and that the truth about 1916 the
truth about the revolutionary PERIOD both before AFTER
the war for Independence shall the lies of the
The United States like all capitalist nations has been
built by workers and farmers 1t theirs and they should
il.
EVERY Fourth of July celebration should the occasion for
- strengthening the revolutionary tradition of this
and inevitable concusiona workers government
Some immediate tasks face the American
THEY may appear small chores compared with the g
gigantic and world embracing of the class struggle
but OF such small tasks successfully accomplished
tory of the made
IHAT better than Fourth of july anniversary
"a American independence, achieved by hungry ragged
workers and farmers for American labor pledge itself
~ Free Sacco and Vanzetti
~ Release of the Chicago garment workers and
renewal OF the fight against iniunctons.
~ 100 per cent support of the strike of 10000 New
York cIoakmakers.
(4 Defense of and relief for the heroic Passac tex.
tile workers.
~ Freedom for Tom Mooney and Billings, the l. w.
W. prisoners in California the Centraa defendants
ington
(o Abolition of all racial discrimination the united
efforts OF the labor and farmer organizations.
~ Organization of the Unorganzed.
(6) united labor Ticket for the fall eIections-A
Labor Party for the 1928 elections.
DEVOTION to the above tasks will July
- worngcas holiday characterized by the
and stern determination to stop nowhere this victory
which acuated the colonial revou
tonary colonial period and will establish the Amer
workngcass July the Fourth hoIiday-taken
from by the present American ruling class just the colonial
workers and farmers robbed of their by the
colonial exploiters.
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