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'and disunion just as we are today;
but by obstinate fighting and thru
great sacrifices they have gained
the right to discuss in common the
cause of the workers.
Let us wish for our brothers in
other countries, that their fight may
very soon result in the desired vic
tory; that the time may soon come
when there are neither masters nor
slaves, neither capitalists nor work.
ers, when all will work equally and
all will enjoy life reasonably and on
equal terms.
Comrades, if we act unitedly and
tremendously, the time is not far
distant when we also, in firmly
welded ranks, shall be able, without
distinction of race or creed, openly
to join this common fight of all the
workers of all countries against all
the capitalists in the whole world.
Our muscular arm will be raised
and the shameful chains of slavery
will fall; the working people of our
Russian country will rise and the
capitalists and all other enemies of
the working class will be filled with
terror.
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asale of labor and man-power as
though they were ordinary commo-
dities. We have begun to shake and
destroy the most deeply-rooted pre-
JUDGES, the most inveterate Gus
toms. Our labor Saturdays have
made enormous progress in the
course of a year. They are indeed
still weak, very weak, but this does
not terrify us. We have seen how
the infinitely weak Soviet power
has grown strong before our eyes
through our efforts and has begun
to transform itself into force of
unlimited vigor which will encircle
the whole world. Let us devote
years, even decades, to introducing
the Saturdays, to developing,
spreading them and improving them
and popularising them among the
masses. In this way we shall gain
the victory for Communist work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
(From the First Labor Saturday on
the Moscow Kasan Railway to the
All Russian Labor Saturday of
the May Celebration.)

We have covered the above-men-
toned path in the course of a year.
The distance covered is indeed great.
Whatever weak points our labor
Saturdays may still show, whatever
defects in performance, in organ
ization and discipline may become
evident each Saturday, the main
thing is accomplished. The heavy
machinery has been put in motion
and that is the kernel of the whole
thing. We are not for a moment
blind to the fact of how little has
been done so far and how infinitely
much still remains to be done. Only
the most malevolent enemies of the
workers, the most evil-intentioned
partisans of the bourgeoisie, how
ever, are capable of looking down
with contempt on labor Saturday on
the LIST of May; only the most despi-
cable persons who have sold them
selves irrevocably to capitalism are
capable of condemning the use of
this lofty celebration as mass at
tempt to introduce Communist work.
Only now, after the overthrow Of
the car, the landowners and the
capitalists, is the field for the first
time clear for the real construction
of Socialism, for the working out of
a new social unity, a new discipline
OF general labor, a new world his
torical order of the whole national
economy and later of international
economy. 1t is case of reforming
customs themselves which have been
polluted and spoiled by the abomina-
BILE private ownership of the means
of production as well as by that
atmosphere Of - ~ring and distrust.
of hostility and disunion. of working
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
By V. l. LENIN
On May /, 1895.

Comrades, let US consider our sit
uation carefully; let us contemplate
the conditions under which we lead
our lives. What do we see? We
work hard, we produce countless
riches, gold and tissues, brocade and
velvet; we haul iron and coal from
the depths of the earth; we con-
struct machinery. All the riches of
the world are created by our hands,
are produced by our sweat and our
blood. What compensation do we
get for our forced labor? If we
had our deserts, we ought to live
in good houses, wear good clothes
and at any rate not want for our
daily bread. Nevertheless we all
know that our wages hardly suf-
flee to provide us with a bare ex-
istence. Our masters reduce the
rate of wages and force US to work
overtime, they impose unfair fines
on us, briefly, they Cypress US in
every possible way and if we are
dissatisfied, they turn us out with
out more ado.
We have often convinced our
selves that all to whom we apply for
protection prove to be henchmen
and friends of the masters. We
workers are kept in the dark; we
are given no education lest we
should want to fight for the i'm
provement of our condition. We are
kept in bonds, we are chased out of
work, we are forbidden to fight;
anyone who resists the oppression
is deported and arrested. Darkness
and bondage are the means by which
the capitalists and the government
which does everything for their adj
vantage hold us captive.
What means have we for improv-
ing our position, for raising our
wages, for reducing our hours of
work, for enabling us to read in
structive books and for protecting
ourselves from insult? Everyone's
hand is against us; that of the mas
ters, who live all the better the
worse off we are, and that of their
lackeys, of all those who live on the
crumbs which fall from the capital
lists table, and who keep us in ig-
norance and bondage for their adj
vantage. We cannot look for help.
from any quarter, we can only de-
pend on helping ourselves. Unity is
cur strength; our weapon is firm,
unanimous and unrelenting resis-
lance to the masters. They them
selves have known for a long time
in what our force consists and use
all efforts to keep us disunited and
to prevent us realizing that the in
terests of us workers are common
interests. They reduce the rates of
wages, not all at once but one at
tim2; they introduce foremen and
payment by piece-work, even reduc-
ing the rates of wages arbitrarily,
laughing in their sleeve when they
see that we wear ourselves out at
our work.
Every dog, however, has his day,
patience wears out in the end. Dur
ing the past year, the Russian work.
ers have shown their masters that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
1t Is Time for the Russian Workers to Break
the Chains of Their Slavery

the submission of the slaves has
been replaced by the steadfast cour-
age of those who do not yield to the
insolence and shamelessness of the
capitalists who banker after unpaid
work. Strikes have broken out in
number of towns; in Jaroslav,
Tejkov, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Bel
ostok, Wilma, Minsk, Kiev, Moscow
and other towns. The majority of
the strikes ended with the victory
of the workers but even in those
which failed, the failure was only
apparent. AS a matter of fact, the
strikes thoroughly brighten the mas
tiers, cause them great losses and
compel them to make concessions
for fear of fresh strikes.
Even the factory inspectors are
beginning to get busy and to dis
cover beams in the eyes of the fac
tory owners. They are usually blind
until Che workers open their eyes
by striking. How, indeed, can we
expect the factory inspectors to no.
tice Encouragement in the fac
tories of such influential people as
Mr. Thornton or the shareholders of
the Putilov Works? We have given
the gentlemen plenty to do, here in
st. Petersburg. The strike of the
weavers at Thornton's, of the wom-
en- cigarette makers at Laferme's,
of the spinners at Lebedev's, at the
factory for the mechanical produc-
ton of shoes, the movement of the
workers at Konig's, Voronin's and
at the docks have shown that we
have ceased to be callous sufferers
and that we have thrown ourselves
into the battle.
AS is well known, workers from
many factories and works have
formed fighting union for the lib
GRAFTON of the working class and
with the object of disclosing all
abuses, Of doing away with misman-
agement, of fighting against the in
solent tyranny and oppression of
our INSCRIPTIONS exploiters and at
tanning complete liberation from
their rule. The union distributes
pampl--s, the very sight of which
freezes the blood of the masters and
their lackeys. 1t is not the pamph-
let's which they dread but the pos
sibility Of our united resistance, the
demonstration of our tremendous
force, which we have shown them
more than once.
We workers of ST. Petersburg and
members of the union call upon all
our comrades to join our union and
to promote the great work of the
union Of the workers in fight for
their own interests. 1t is time for
us Russian workers also to burst the
chains with which the capitalists
and the government have bound us.
to join our brothers, the workers
in other states, in the fight, for us
to march under a common banner
on which is written: workers of
all countries, unite!"
In France, England, Germany and
other countries, in which the work
ers have already united in strong
unions and have conquered many
rights for themselves, they are in
augurating general day of celebra-
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work indefatigably for years, nay
even for decades.
We will endeavor to abolish the
abominable rule Everyone for him
self, God for ALL" to put an end to
the custom which regards work
merely as a duty and only approves
of that work which is paid according
to definite rates of wages. We will
exert every effort to impress the
rule Each for all and all for each
according to his need" on the con-
seriousness of the everyday life of
the masses, in order to introduce.
gradually but persistently, Commu-
mist discipline into Communist work.
We have set in motion a mountain
of unprecedented size, a rock of
moral immortality, of ignorance
and obstinate defense of the custom
of free trade. of free purchase and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

along in spite of themselves, s1llen
and resisting, longing for any Kind
OF peace, the first to give in and en-.
courage their men to become scabs.
They become the readiest tools Of
the Lewis machine and it's policy
OF class-collaboration and defeat
ism. They try to spread discourage
ment in the barracks and the slogan
OF Give Up the Fight!
The great masses of the women
IN the camps on the contrary ONLY,
grow more eager for the fight as
hunger and privation increase. They
do not weep, but endure and st171g-
gle. They fight the defeatist ten
denotes of the right wing women
Il am the president of the Ladies'
Auxiliary" said one of them in
tears, but l amt going to be long
er than this afternoon, now that
them Bolsheviki has come in here"
And she wasn't. The other women
attended to that.
Lewis Machine Fears Women.
The Lewis machine, fearing the
growing militancy of the women and
the increasing influence of the left
wing called conference in April Of
representatives of the Ladies' Auxil-
iaries where they made an effort to
expel the militant elements from
the women's organizations. The re-
suit was a majority for the left
wing women at the conference and
a bitter struggle that ended in the
collapse of the right wing and its
women supporters.
In the great struggle in the coal
fields the future not only of the
miners union but of the American
labor movement is at stake. The
struggle of the miners women is the
struggle of working women all over
the country. The heroic fight of the
women of the coal-fields is rallying
women workers everywhere to the
support and relief of the miners and
their wives and children.
Women's Relief Conferences
Women's miners relief conferen-
ces are being organized in all cen
ters throughout the country to in
clude the widest possible masses of
women. Women in the
shops, organized and unorganized,
women in the trade unions and aux
mothers leagues, working women's
clubs are combining into centralized
conferences which can make
strong united drive for relief and
make an effort to rouse the more
backward masses of working women
10 consciousness of the significance
If the miners struggle and partici-
patton in the relief drive.
The miners strike is the greatest
ssue before the American working
lass today. The vanguard of the
labor movement is under
ire. Defeat means destruction Of
'llS ulltSIo ulI1Oil anu WGdhcllIlR VI
he position of the workers in every
,ther industry, organized and unor-
yanized. The women of the coal
fields are battling beside the men.
Working women everywhere must
ally to their aid.
Wherever group of working
there women's miners re-
ief committee! Wherever a number
# groups of women, there central
Nomen's Miners Relief Conference!
Let us redouble our efforts to
ave the children, hold up the arms
# our fighting sisters, and help win
he struggle of our brothers.
All the forces of working women
ogether for miners relief.
ale of labor and man-power a,
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49, a. - ;;2T..,S.-'

0okerS first The second Orn
orsary the existence of the SoUet Poe The comparison
articles u show better than anything difference the
character of the May celebrations capitalism the
proLetardn dctGorship)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
TWO MAY DAY ARTICLES BY LENIN

(EDIToRs NoTE-We publishing herewith articles by
LEM" 'or{n at to different epochs The first
0hen the first Social Democratic organisation founded on Rus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07

Private Ownership Bunk
Fed to School Children

WASHINGTON, May 6. - Testi-
mony before the federal trade com
mission by Clarence Willard, seer
tary Of the Connecticut Committee on
Public Service Information, showed
that 5000 copies OF a Public Utilities
Catechism," issued by him to make
school children believe that municipal
ownership is a ruinous venture, are
now in use in high schools in Connec-
ticut. The basic claim in this booklet
that the cost of living is greater
in cities where utilities are munich
pally owned-was shown by Chief
Counsel Healy to have been repudi-
ated by the National Industrial Con-
ference Board, which was quoted as
authority. Willard also sent out free
news" to papers throughout tbs
state, aimed at bolstering up the
profits of the private utilities and
discouraging municipal ownership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
Federation TO
ELECT NEW BOSS
Pennsylvania's La Dor
Officials Will Talk

PHILADELPHIA, May 6 (FP).-
Four hundred delegates will gather
May at Musicians Hall for the four
day session of the 9th annual con-
vention of the Pennsylvania Fedora
ton of Labor. This will be the first
time in % years that the federation
has met in Philadelphia.
James H. Maurer, for 16 years
Federation president, announces his
retirement from the position. David
Fowler of Scranton, John Otis of
Pittsburgh and John A. Phillips of
Philadelphia are candidates to sue
coed Maurer Observers here believe
that Phillips, second vice president of
the Federation, will be elected.
The convention will seek to draw up
an old age pensions bill which will
escape the veto of the courts. The
Federation, through President Mau-
rer, obtained the enactment of state
old age pensions law, but it was held
unconstitutional.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
MASS PICKETINC
more DETERMINED
Indictment of Women
Rouses Strikers

ST. GAINESVILLE, Ohio, May g.
A mass picket line Of more than two
hundred men and women in front Of
the Florence mine of the Y. & 0. Coal
Company near here was dispersed May
8 by a detachment of Ohio national
guardsmen who were summoned by
the superintendent of the mine.
Threatened with violence and repe-
tition of the wholesale arrests which
took place in St. Clairsville two weeks
ago, the miners and their wives dis
persed when ordered to do SO by the
militia.
A mass meeting of several hundred
miners in st. Clairsville was also
disrupted as result Of the national
guard activity on ire picket lire in
front of the Florence mine.
Mass picketing in Ohio which has
not lost intensity since its beginning
on April l, took on a new Importance
today with the publication of the news
that the federal grand jury at Steub-
enville, Ohio, had returned indictments
against 25 men and five women on
charges of violating injunctions which
forbid mass demonstrations in front
of or near mines. The 80 indictments
were returned out of total of 1875
asked against individuals by authori-
ties in this vicinity. All were charged
with verbal and physical abuse of mine
guards and non-union miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
Leaves for Talk Fest

WASHINGTON, (FP} May O.
Leifur Magnusson, American repre-
sentative of the international Labor
Office Of the League of Nations, at
Geneva, will sail May 10, to attend
the sessions, starting May 80 at
Geneva, of the International Labor
Organization Of some so nations.
This years program will deal with
industrial accidents and safety and
with the problem of regulation Of
home work. This latter includes the
making at home of garments, artifi-
cial flowers, chains, buttons and other
small ware, for the commercial mar
ket. A regularly convention will
finally be drafted.
The. meetings will be entirely limited
to discussion and advising and no ac-
tion will be taken to relieve the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
SCHACTMAN WILL
talk IN CHICAGO
China Topic Of Labor
Defender Editor

CHICAGO, May 6.--China, the
soothing cauldron of the orient will
come to Chicago on Friday, May IL,
at 500 p. m. to Northwest Hall, cor
ner North and Western Avenues. 1t
will come in the form of an illustrated
lecture by Max Schactman, editor of
the Labor Defender, official organ of
International Labor Defense.
The latest pictures of the struggle
now going on in China will be thrown
on the screen during the lecture and
will give a graphic portrayal of the
huge liberation movement Of the
400, 100000 Chinese people which is
shaking not only the whole Orient, but
is stirring the structure of numerous
imperialist powers in the west. Most
of the pictures, of which there are
more than 100, have never been
shown or seen in this country, and
were obtained by International Labor
Defense by special arrangements for
exclusive release in the United States.
During the showing of these pictures
Schachtman, who is well acquainted
with the situation in China and its
latest developments, will speak and
explain the nature of the struggle
now going on in that country.
Especially interesting are the pic
lures showing the barbarously, vio-
lent methods used by the Chinese re-
dictionaries to suppress the revo-
lutionary workers and peasants
movement They give striking con-
firmation to the figures which show
that during the year 1927 alone, 3d.
101 Chinese workers and peasants
were murdered, 1850 were wounded
and 46,175 were arrested and i'm
prisoned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
CANNON TALKS ON
FRAME-UP MAY IS
Free Labor Defender
Sub at Lecture

"The American Frame-Up System"
will be the subject Of a lecture to be
given by James F. Cannon, national
secretary Of the International Labor
Defense ,on Friday evening, May 18
at s o'clock at Irving Plaza, 18th St
and Irving Place. The lecture will be
given under the auspices Of the New
York section of the l. l.. D., 799
Broadway.
This lecture is part of series that
Cannon. has been conducting through
out the country on the same subject
During the course of his tour, he has
visited many political prisoners, in
GLIDING Tom Mooney, and has collect
ed additional, first-hand material for
his lectures.
A three months subscription to the
Labor Defender, organ of the Inter
national Labor Defense, will be given
free with every admission.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
WORKERS PARTY
EXPELS B. LEDER
Betrayed Militants in
Cloak Union
Continued from Page one)

Continued from Page O1te)
District 2, announces the expulsion of
B. Leder, member of Local 5, who
while elected on a program Of oppo-
sition to the class collaboration poll
cies Of Hillman and Beckerman, allied
themselves with Hillman and Becker
man to support the policy of piece
work, speed-up, reorganizations of the
shops and the worst forms of treach-
cry practiced by the Hillman- Becker.
man administration
"The officials of Local in order
to effectively support class collabora-
ton began expulsions of members
who opposed their policies. Ledcl
supported these officials. The Work
ers' Community Party, District 2
therefore declares Leder unfit fol
membership in the party of the ad-
vance guard of the proletariat anc
calls upon all members of the Anal
gamated to rally to the struggle
against the treachery of the Hillman
Beckerman administration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
SHOE STRIKERS
MAY Die AFTER
ATTACK BY THUGS
Union Determined to
Fight Melrose Firm

Hired scabs in the employ of the
Melrose Slipper Company stabbed
two union pickets of the Associated
Shoe and Slipper Union and escaped
sefore they could be caught. Mike
Felice and Abe Shink, the two pick
cts are both in the hospital suffering
from serious wounds and there is
some doubt as to whether they will
recover.
Felice and Shink were picketing the
company place of business at 76
Spring St., Friday evening when a
taXi-load of the gangsters drove up,
A number Of the assassins alighted
and Immediately attacked the two
pickets. -Four of them escaped before
they could be caught. Police, who
captured one Of them, found in his
possession two daggers such as were
used to stab the pickets.
The names of three of the thugs
who were known to officers of the
union were turned over to the police.
Arrests were expected to follow.
The Melrose Slipper Company,
originally union concern, recently
broke off relations with the Associ-
ated. Picketing was Immediately be-
gun and officers of the union an
nounce that this will be continued I'M
til the firm signs up with them.
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NightwOrkers Meet.
A special educational meeting of the
Nightworkers' international Branch,
Section 1, will be held tomorrow at
2.3o p m. at 50 st. Marks Place.
lac sF.
An educational meeting of LAC ST
will be held tomorrow night at $50
sharp at go st. Marks Place.
INST Of I'D Meet.
Unit 2D If will hold meeting at
$50 tonight at so st. Marks Place.
2B IF.
Subsection 2B, Unit If, will hold an
educational meet Wednesday, at G p
m. at 101 w. 9th St The subject dis
cussed will be "The Latest Develop
ments in the Socialist Party
Spanish Fraction Meetnig.
A special meeting of - Spanish
Fraction will be held Wednesday, May
9Th at $40 p. M, at 143 E. 10Srd ST
No member of the Fraction should be
absent as very important report will
be given at this meeting.
Branch 8, Section 3.
A special meeting of Branch 5, Sec
ton 5, will be held at 2075 Clinton Ave-
at $40 sharp, tomorrow.
BE FD3 Meet.
Unit FDS, section BE, will meet to-
morrow at els p. m. at 101 w. 9th
st.
Subsection &c Wednesday,.
A meeting of the enlarged executive
of subsection &c will be held Wednes-
day ut $50 p. M at 101 w. 9th St.
All unit organizers and executive
members of the subsection must be
present.
Units of Subsection sc.
The following units of subsection
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
Railway Conductors
Meet Opens Tomorrow

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May g.
The triennial convention of the Ordes
of Railway Conductors will open herS
Monday at the Duval County Armory
The convention of the Ladies' Auxili
airy win be held at the same time
the George Washington Hotel.
Seven hundred delegates from The
United States and Canada are expect
ed to attend the conductors conven-
ton and about 800 delegates will be
present at the convention of the La
dies Auxiliary.