The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25
Navy Yard Workers! Get Off Your Knees!

Labor plays an abect in the launching American
mperialisms 1OOOOon ship of war the Pensacola
dy at Brooklyn Navy Yard While the yankee imperiast
ambassador Hugh S. Gibson talks armament reduction at
Geneva, American navalism grows mghtier than
The Brooklyn launching has been seized upon by the
cass peace ofcialdom of the Metal Trades Council the
skeleton of trade union organization that exists in The
Yards, for the holding of Harmony Banquet to which
only William Green president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor has been invited but also Herbert Hoovers
secretary of the navy Charles Francis Adams who
from Massachusetts, the state that put Sacco and Vanzet in
the electric chair and burned them to DEATH that turned its
guns against the textile strikers of New Bedford and
Fall River.
Navy yard workers being assessed $500 each for the
privilege of attending this Feast of Industrial Peace which
will doubt the main places occupied by uniformed naval
officers old party politicians and the navy yard Bosses Every
possible method of intimidation is being used the
workers to attend in large numbers because they the
ones the feast intended to IMPRESS they are the lambs to
be shorn of any desire to wage effective struggle in their
own interests in the governments navy yards
The workers will be told to continue the suicidal A.
F. of L. tactics favored by their officials including loyalty
the capitalist political parties maintenance of $4,000
year lobby at Washington to beg savors from the
ment At the time mention will be made OF the
brutates suffered by the workers at The Yards espec
ally the 48hour week. six days week and the eghthour
day. being forced to contribute 49, cent of their
wages old age pension fund that doesn't operate until
workers 65 of unemployment insurance in
fact protection at all for workers who have not been in
1.-THE Yards for at least year, and the government has the
full right to ''hire and fire" as it pleases.
The American Federation of Labor convention at New
Orleans completely endorsed the whole naval program of the
Wall Street government 1t made preparations to develop
struggle for the organization of the yard workers.
This effort must be initiated and developed by the workers
themselves who must demand the organization ndustriay
of all shpbuders navy yard workers included the basis
of shop committees for effective class struggle support of
the effort to remedy their many grievances.
This will not be effected through "class peace ban
quets Navy yard workers. and all labor in this of
the year. gathers in the huge May Day demonstrations
gained in all lands under the leadership of the Communist
International One reply by Brooklyn navy yard workers
and all shpbuders to the peace banquet arranged for
them by their traitor ocialdom attendance at the May
Day demonstrations organized by the Communist Party of
the United States in New York City, and all other great
population ceners in the land Navy yard workers. Get off
your knees Join in the celebration of international May
Day Join in the struggle for the emancipation of yourselves
and labor the world over Organize to combat the growing
danger Prepare defend the Union of Soviet Republics
the Socialist fatherand of all workers