The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-26
International May Day and the Children

The international May Day of the workers of all countries
and oppressed colonial peoples ensts only labor the
factories the mills and the mines including and youth
enro not only the militant toers along the countryside but
also calls the children in the schools and workshops to rally
to its banners for renewed struggle against the op
pressor-the capitalist social order.
The world reaction develops on every hand its resistance
to this May Day solidarity of labor In the United States the
Federation of Labor ignores May Day completely
choosing instead the Labor Day. in September egazed by
the capitalist government In other countries, also in the
United States the Socialists sabotage the observance of May
Day. seeking to dilute the fighting spirit of the working
class to the point of strict legality In ITALY, Mussolin has
tried to abolish May Day completely, nstitung fascsms
Labor Day. April 21st instead the anniversary of the
founding of Rome In France the police force and military is
being strengthened against the May Day threat of labor
Raids and arrests the order of the day in Psuds
fascist Poland Similar tremors of fear shoot through the
capitalist order everywhere.
In the United States labor rallies never before for
May Days observance Demonstrations the open the
place of indoor meetings on an increasing scale.
The days observance grows great that President
Hoover like the fascist dictator Musson feels some counter
be started So he has declared May First to
be National Child Health Day. This another effort of the
capitalist to sfe the real May Day. But it, too will fail
President Herbert Hoover's declaration is merely an
idle and hypocrtcal gesture Both the republican and demo-
cratic parties allied with the Catholic Church and great bust
helped kill the proposed antichd labor amendment to
the federal constitution The agencies join hands in
keeping within the prison walls of factories the
100000 children shacked the industrial machine of
the profit takers
1t is the Young Pioneers of America the organization of
children that SCOTS at Hoover fraudulent Health Day.
that calls upon the children of the working class mobilize
for greater demonstrations this International May Day
against child labor against preparations for another military
attack the Soviet Union support of striking workers
everywhere and for complete observance of the soganOu
of School on May Day.!
Just the slogan for the workers industry of Down
Tools May Day strikes terror in the hearts of the capt.
taists just the slogan of the school children, Ou of
School May Dayl parayze the ruling class with fear
since this plain evidence that it is impossible poison
pleey the minds of the young Oahs of allegiance to be
every day. by the teachers at the requests of
the lingo Daughters of the American Revolution parpoc
exercises OCCASION fagwavng and housekeeping
all these have been Intellectual in completely crampng child
hood the stragtacke of things they which the up
holders of the present capitalist social order seek continue
Indefinitely.
The children will come out of the schools May Day to
show their solidarity with the children in the factories
especially with the children who have joined their lot with
and women strikers in the textile mills of the South
As workers children they will take their rightful place
in the working celebration of International May Day.
This will not be very healthy for the capitalist regime
espoused by President Hoover and the parasites for whom
rules.