The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
The Socialists Desecrate May Day.

The Socialist Party the publications that socialist
mask in order to further beray the workers. like the New
York Daily Forward and socialist miseaders of labor of the
type of Hman Schlossberg Shlpacof Schesnger are
ing through their usual motions celebrating international
May Day This celebration however, is the worst dissertation
The Socialists in the United States in common with the
socaemocratc reaction the world over utilize this day
their full ability to handicap and betray the militant struggles
of the workers
They have urged the Wall Street government to enter
the BLACK Capitalist International the League of Nations
that helps breed and the slogan for struggle against
the capitalist danger missing from the demands for
the socialist May Day meeting in New York City, pub
shed in that Party official organ the New Leader April
9th
Norman Thomas socialist presidential candidate last
year, in his column in the New Leader that Il
hate to write messages for particular days. May Day
could be separated by second from the year around sug
gle of the working class. Thomas in reality that May
Day and its real significance doesn't fit in with his ideas of
what the third petty bourgeois party of American capitalism
should beg for platform from which all class issues
have been deleted.
The current issue of the New Leader weeps copious
the fact that the American Federation of Labor
which it theoretically pink reformst fig leaf
should brazen and openly turn its back international
May Day. give its support to the fake National Child
Health Day. proclaimed by the mperast president Hoover
for May First counter against the Workers May
Day. Although it American workers, affiliated with the
A. F. of L. who first urged May Day day of struggle
for labor the eghhour day movement of the SOS of the
century, the last convention of the A. of L. at New
Orleans completely repudated May Day. endorsed the
first Monday September its day. egazed by the capt.
talist government declaring that The Communists still
maintain May as Labor Day
All the facts show that May First this year will be cele
brated everywhere under the leadership of the Communist
Party While all the socaled May Day meetings of the
calists will be held indoors many of them will not take
place until Sunday May 5h while others will be held the
Sunday before May Day. The socialists dsown entirely the
slogan of Down Tools May Day the effort to develop
May Day into real holiday of the American working class,
it is observed by revolutionary labor in other countries
The whole temper of the yellow socialist trade union
offcadom toward May Day shown by the various cir
cuses arranged by the Hman regime of the Amagamated
Clothing Workers in various sections of the country The
May Day leafet of the Han followers Cleveland Ohio
for instance is headed Whoopee the favorite exclama
ton of the New York night clubs and adverise banquet
etc. etc. to be held May Day. all members being urged to
get their tickets from the shop chairman land bring your
wife sweetheart and friends to celebrate good time
guaranteed The leaet includes elaborate bill of fare
for the banquet
1t is with this outlook that the editor of the New Leader,
James Onea writes his May Day article stating that in the
present period of the development of the mpeat
dtions changing rapidly hat find it difficult to
comprehend what is happening"
The working class mass, however, knows exactly what
has happened to the socialist party that it playing out
standing role counterevoluonary agent of American
Imperialism. This will be clearly apparent at all the
caist May Day meetings. Down with the socialist
gades and should be the lips of
every militant worker in this May Day Down with
the Second Socialist Inernational Long live the Com
munis internationally Long live the World Revoluon
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