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King George VS. yacht comes in a
taiIender off Cowes. But at any rate
1t does not throw him.
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A Comparison.


ST can't see much TO this here game
of golf" said Farmer Corntossel.
1T requires a great deal of science"
"Mebbe. But after SEEM one of
these city chaps tryin' to swing a
scythe, I've concluded that scythin' not
only takes more skill, but hez a con-
siderable spice OF danger"
Climatic Discomfort.
The weather man doth gaze afar
With brain in constant action.
Whate'er he brings, the chances are
It won't bring satisfaction.
Sometimes" said Uncle Eben, "de
man dat keeps tellin' bout reform is
de man dat is stirrin' thiSas up an
maxim de trouble wuss."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-11

@. Do any of the first-class battle
ships use coal for propulsion?-J. F.
A. The Navy Department says that
there are no first-class battleships now
in commission which use coal.
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@. Which States were first settled by
Spaniards?-W. d. E.
A. The following States were nrst
settled by Spaniards: Californla-Sah
Diego, 1859; Florida-St Augustine.
1865; New Mexico-Santa Fe, 1887
Texas-San Antonio, 1890.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29
MAY DAY AND COMING ELECTIONS

speed and at starvation wages. The
future holds in store added misery
and moro intensive exploitation.
Added burdens have been placed on
the workers in the form Of addi-
tional taxes to take care of the ire
mendous war preparations that are
being made.
The election campaigns to the
Communist Party are not mere vote
catching affairs but are a means of
modifying the workers for the po-
litical and economic demands of the
Communist Party. The tendency to
center the attention of the workers
purely on their economic needs
serves the interests of the betray-
ers of the workingclass. 7 h e
May Day demonstrations must serve
as means of rallying large num-
bers to support the program of the
party. They must be the beginning
of the statewide election campaign
that will bring the election CAM
paign of the Communist Party into
every city and farming section OF
the State. The Hoovers, Roosevelts,
Lehmans and Jimmie Walkers are
in the employ of Wall Street and
carry out their orders. The Fascist
ALL. has followed policy of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29

conditions which are inflicted upon
the working class by the capitalist
system of society. Having faileu to
prevent the demonstration the police
threw murderous attacks upon the
assembled workers. broke up the at
tempt of the workers to march to
City Hall to present their demands.
The delegation elected to lead this
march was arrested and subsequent
ly sentenced to three years impris-
onment.
Following this demonstration the
city government again attempted to
prevent the use of the streets to
the working class of New York for
May Day. However, the tremendous
mass pressure against this new at
tempted persecution forced the city
government to retreat.
ON MAY DAY MANY TENS OF
THOUSANDS OF WORKER S
WILL MARCH NDER THE
I LEADERSHIP OF THE COMMU-
MIST PARTY AND DEMON
! STRATE IN UNION SQUARE
/ AGAINST SPEED-UP AND WAGE
CUTS, FOR THE 7-HOUR DAY
AND 5-DAY WEEK, AGAINST
IMPERIALIST WAR PREPARA-
TONS, FOR THE DEFENSE OF
THE SOVIET UNION. AGAINST
UNEMPLOYMENT, FOR WORK
lOR WAGES, FOR EQUAL PAY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29

in order to prevent mass protest
against the murder. Despite this,
over $4,000 workers gathered in
Union Square, while over 10000 pa
raded behind the bier of Comrade
Katovis.
Tremendous unemployment had
worsened the conditions of the New
York working class as we'll as that
of the entire country to an unbear-
able point. A tremendous move
ment developed among the workers
against unemployment and for the
demand of work or wages. The en-
emies of the workers did everything
they could to browbeat the masses
gathered on that day in order to pre-
vent the demonstration from taking
place. The Socialist and American
Federation of Labor trade union
bureaucracy threatened to fire work
ers who participated in this demon
stration. The city government mob
ilized, according to the announce
ment of the police commissioner
himself, 1900 police besides plain
clothes men, stool pigeons, and other
agents provocateur III order to pre-
vent the demonstration. Yet despite
this, 10000 workers gathered in
Union Square under the leadership
of the Communist Party expressing
the solidarity of the employed and
unemployed against the miserable
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29
MAY 1929 AND MAY DAY 1890

FOR EQUAL WORK FOR WO-
MEN, YOUTH AND NEGRO
WORKERS, AND FOR COMPLETE
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EQUAL
ITY.
For May Day also the Socialist
Party is attempting to mislead the
workers by arranging concerts in
other parts of the city. This mis-
cradle deception must not deceive
single worker. All militant work
ers will see through this service
which the Socialist Party is render
ing the bosses and will participate
in the demonstration and parade
from Rutgers Square to Union
Square, and will do so knowing full
we'll that these demonstrations are
demonstrations not only against the
bosses but also against the agents
of the bosses, including the Amer
lean Federation of Labor and So
cialist Party.
THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF
THE UNITED STATES, NEW
YORK DISTRICT, EXTE N D s
HEART ST REVOLUTIONARY
GREETINGS TO THE WORKING
MASSES OF NEW YORK AND
UGES ALL WORKERS TO PRE-
PARE FOR ADEQUATE PARTICI.
! TON IN THE DEMONSTRATION
ON MAY DAY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29

company-unionizing the trade unions
and betraying the workers to the
bosses and to the parties of the
bosses. The Socialist Party and
their Music group satellites have
dropped every pretense of being
party of the workingclass. The rem
egades to the Communist Party,
Lovestone and Cannon. will howl
and rave that the party has dropped
that famous slogan, the Labor
Party" To them we can answer
that they will fume for the Labor
Party slogan, because in this period
it serves as an instrument of re-
action. The draft thesis to the Sew
enth Convention is correct when it
states: "This slogan (for a Labor
Party--JP) no longer supplies the
base for the organization of revolu-
tionary political action of the work
ing masses as the most immediate
detectives of our party. Any labor
party disqualification at this moment
could only have the ALL. unions,
the Socialist Party and other social
reformist organizations as base or
would have only those organizations
already in sympathy with the Com
munist Party" To adopt the slogan
in this period means liquidation of
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the Communist Party. The united
front must be one from below
among the great mass Of the work
ingclass to win them for the pro-
gram of the party. If this means
isolation, then we ask our class en-
emies to explain the Katovis Dem
onstration March 9th and the ire
mendous agitation that is going on
for May LIST. We must appeal to
all shops, trade unions and workers
to support the pa = of the workers
the Communist Party. We must
go down in every shop with the pro-
gram of the Communist Party. Ev-
every worker who has followed the
Party in the various campaigns of
the Party must be gotten to sup
port the political program of the
party. The election campaign is al
ready now in full swing. The May
LIST demonstration must be the be-
ginning of modelling large delega-
tions to the State nomination con-
vention to be held in Schenectady,
May oath and 25th, and for intensive
election campaign activities into the
shops with the program of the Com
munist Party. This will be our best
answer to the bosses and the rene
gades.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29

the work-day as one means for re-
ducing unemployment. We fight
for unemployment insurance at the
expense of the bosses and bosses
government and against wage-cuts
as one means of resisting the eff
forts to reduce the already miser-
able living standards of the workers
We fight against the imperialist
war which means the slaughter OF
millions of workers in the interest
of the bosses profits. We fight fol
defense of the Soviet Union, because
the bosses seek to destroy this the
one workers government in order to
impose their oppressive rule upon
the $50 millions of workers and
peasants, members of our class, who
are setting an inspiring example to
the working class the world over
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29
BY Jack l.. Perilla

Our party approaching an cleo
ton campaign after such eventful
days as March 9Th, Katovis and
May LIST when our party in New
York modified under the banner
Of the Communist Party hundred of
thousands of workers to struggle
for the political and economic de-
mands of the Workers. This was
possible because the workers realize
that the Communist Party is the
only party fighting for their de-
mands.
Because Of this the sharpest of
attacks are made against our party.
The influence of our party has
grown tremendously. The Economic
crisis that is facing the workers in
this country and state is the sever
est that we have ever gone through
100000 unemployed in the coun-
try and one million in the State Of
New York; Untold sufferin,, faces
both the unemployed and employed
workers. The employed workers
are being driven at a neck-breakine
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29
take Note for Nav Day. Writes l. A>1tey from Prison

Then why were the films cancelled
at the movie houses after being
shown one day? Why were the
three Tammany judges afraid to
show them N court? Why did Tam
many Whalen, assistant attorney
Unger protest against their being
exhibited?
Students in universities may see
them--it gives them insight into
"clowd behavior" But when five
men are to be railroaded to Jail for
their work for the working class,
when tens of millions of workers
throughout the country might see
the fil-ns at the movies and witness
the police as they are--not the
polite, kindly bluecoat that the child
imagines, but the vicious cossack out
to crush the workers-then the fin
cannot be shown.
Prof. Kulp is right. These films
which show the splendid demonstra-
tions of solidarity of the workers
employed and unemployed, Negro
and white, men, women and chill
dren--are splendid propaganda TO,
the Communist Party" For thar
reason the bosses, their government!
and police have decided that they
shall not be shown.
The workers will learn lesson
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29
oau Facing the Workers the May Day Strike and Demonstration

employed we must march through
the streets and mass at our demon
strations, in proof of our determi-
II Il to fight a. re policies
of the bosses and r" the revolu-
ii, rrogram of the working
class. Against the capitalist system
through the establishment Of the
rule of the workers.
Defeat Boss Terror and Their
Agents.
The bosses are terrified by the
splendid militancy shown by the
workers on March 9th, when one
and and a quarter millions Of work.
ers took the streets to demonstrate
against unemployment in def, e
of the threats and dis'''qy Of force
made by the bosses government or
gans. For May First, the attempts
to intimidate and divide the work
ers have been intensified. In New
York, all the black f-"-0e of reac-
ton were modified agains+ the
workers. Chief-thug Whalen an
nounced Immediately after March
9th that "the Communists would
never against be allowed to use
Union Square or the streets for
demonstrations" The fascist or
CARNATIONS that cover up their in
famous activities against t lie
workers under a mask Of patriot
ism" pre-emted Union Square for
a demonstration against May Day
and against the working class. The
fascist leaders in control of the
AT of L, the Wolls, Greens and
Ryans announced that they would
assist in the attack upon the work
ers' day of solidarity. The social
fascist socialist party which long
ago betrayed everything that May
Day stands for, called a strike and
a celebration in order to lead the
workers away from the militant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29

talists, they again proceed to solve
their problem at the expense of the
working class by reducing wages,
frightening hours of work inten-
styling speed-up thus maintaining
their profits by reducing the cost @.
p ;0n.
Bosses Have No Solution.
But even the capitalist ruling
class knows that this is no per-
manent solution. They know that
they must not only maintain their
profits during the crisis but must
look to eventually overcoming the
crisis. This is not so simple. But,
no one can accuse the capitalists of
not trying. The capitalists know
that the crisis occurs because their
industries can produce more than
they could market. The further
lowering of the living standards of
the workers and the mass unemploy-
ment serves to further reduce the
market at home. The solution is
therefore-new markets, more mar
kets. But, the world market has
already been distributed among the
various imperialist nations. Each is
jealousy guarding, because each
needs so badly, the markets which
they now control. The task is,
therefore, to overpower the guard
and take the market of the rival i'm
periaist nation away by force.
Just as in the first instance so
also when attempting permanent
solution for its problems, the capt.
taist ruling class places the burden
Of its problems upon the workers
The working class is forced to ac-
cept a further reduction of its liv-
ing standards in order that more
billions of dollars may be made
available for the maintenance of
larger and more fully equipped
armies and navies. Finally, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29

of how to build the socialist society.
These are the issues which the
Communist Party is raising on this
May Day. In support of these vital
demands of the working class, mil
lions of workers throughout the
world and hundreds of thousands
throughout the U. S., will demon
strate on this May Day under the
leadership of their world Party the
Communist international. In New
York City and in many more large
cities and towns throughout the
United States, hundreds of thou
sands of workers will lay down their
tools, will pour out of the factories
in a mass political strike in support
of these demands.
The Right to the Streets.
The May Day demonstrations in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29

the United States as elsewhere thru
out the world will be held under the
leadership of sections of the Com
munist International. The demon
strations under the Communist
leadership will not be gatherings to
express pious wishes and hypocritic
sentiments as they wers and con-
tinue to be under socialist leader
ship. The demonstration will serve
to consolidate the fighting forces of
the working class and will be the
means for adding to these forces
new militant proletarians to be
drawn into conscious participation
in the revolutionary organizations
and struggles of the working class.
The Communist Party and the re-
volutionary unions will be further
strengthened through the work
which we have done in preparation
for May Day and by the strike and
demonstration of that day.
1t is precisely because the May
Day demonstrations as all demon
strations and activities under Com
munist leadership result in strengn-
thening the working class and in
upaeeting the plans of the capitalist
for imposing the burden of the cri-
sis upon the workers, that all eff
forts have been made and are being
made by the bosses and their agents
to prevent and interfere with our
May Day demonstrations. 1t is
precisely for this ~oson that every
militant worker must assist by all
mea with all energy in max
ing these demonstrations tremen-
deus e. arings of hu masses OF
m determined prolatarians OF
all races, age and sex. Every mill
tant worker must not only leave the
shop on May Day, but must induce
the other workers in the shop to dc
likewise. Together with the I'm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29
Bv HERBERT BENJAMIN.

The capitalist crisis raises for
millions Of workers the immediate
problem of keeping themselves and
their families alive despite the fact
that they are deprived of the OPP
portunity of earning livelihood. At
the time of the great unemploy-
ment demonstrations Of March 6,
some seven millions OF workers were
faced with this problem. Since that
time, despite the many optimistic
reports emanating from Washing
Ton, the number has grown to eight
millions The number of unem-
ployed in New York City totals
about 10 per cent of the nations
unemployed or from seven to eight
hundred thousand.
Wages Of those workers who are
still employed are being cut. Their
hours of work increased, new speed
up methods are being introduced,
he working conditions daily grow
worse. BY means of wage cuts and
as result of unemployment which
effects practically every family, the
living standards Of he workers are
reduced to ever lower levels.
The present crisis is the inc-it-
able result Of the capitalist system
Of production. The effect of this
crisis upon the workers is the re-
suit of the capitalist policy for solv-
ing the crisis. For the capitalist
ruling class all problems are ap-
preached from the point Of view Of
profit for the owners of industry.
When profitable markets can no
longer be found for all the pos
sible products of industry, the fac
tories, mines and mills curtail their
production. When this results in
further intensifying the crisis and
en- o. the profits Ct &c
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29

revolutionary demonstration called
by the Communist Party and the
United Front May Day Conference.
The renegades from Communism
the expelled Lovestoneites ana
Trotzkyites sought to split the
forces under the immediate leader
ship of the Communist Party, call
ing upon the workers to force the
Party to retreat in the face of the
threats of the government.
The workers under the leadership
of the Communist Party answered
these threats with a determined
struggle for the right of the work.
ers to the streets and to Union So.
Hundreds of resolutions pledging
support for this fight from working
class organizations, showed the
fighting mood of the workers. The
Tammany politicians who admin
lister the affairs of the city govern
ment for the bosses were forced
to back down. Union Square and
! lIlc TlSHL 10 uldlCIl vi tiiC oehSSN'
has been won by the workers.
While the workers know that
this by no means insures our march
and demonstration against the at
tacks of police and fascists, the
workers have learned from their
fight for Union Square the value OF
their mass power. Scores of thous-
ands will strike, will mobilize in
Rutgers Square and march to
Union Square, with a clearer UNDER
standing of the issues involved i'll
the struggle and with determination
to carry this struggle forward till
the final victory of the working
class over the capitalist class and its
fascist and social fascist agents.
May Day in New York will this
year be red letter day that will
advance our struggle for all power
to the workers!
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workers must provide the bone and
sinew for the imperialist slaughter
which takes place in the war for
markets.
Fight Capitalist Solution for Crisis.
In the present period when the
crisis of capitalism grows deeper
and more general, ever larger num-
bers of workers become involved in
struggles against unemployment,
wage-cuts, attacks upon their work
ing and living conditions which they
soon recognize as manifestations
not of the individual whims of their
| bosses. but as the result Of a gen.
eral crisis OF capitalism and the
general policy of the capitalist rul-
ing class for solving the crisis at the
expense of the workers. The grow
ing rehabilitation of the working
class throughout the United States
and throughout the world is the re-
suit of the growing realization on
the part of ever broader masses of
NUIhclS lIldl lilt SOIuJIulI lOl lllC
working class lies in struggle
against the system which produces
the crisis, against the class which
benefits from that system and
against the government which sup
ports it and enforces the policy of
the ruling class for imposing the
burden of the crisis upon the
workers
The Day of Struggle Against
Capitalism.
The issues raised by the Commu-
mist Party, rise out of these gen
eral problems that confront the en-
tire working class. AS the spokes-
man for the working class the
Communist Party declares that we
will fight against the policy of the
bosses. That we will fight for the
seven hour day-five day week;
against speed-up and lengthening of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29
Young Communist League
and the Struggles
on May Day
Young Workers Fighting Back in Crisis and
Unemployment

their loyalty to the working class
and the workers struggle.
Barrack Demonstrations.
May Day, 1880, must be marked
by soldiers and sailors demonstrate
ing in their barracks and on their
ships against the tyranny of their
officers, against their political OPP
preston and rotten conditions-for
all the aims of the struggling
workers! Soldiers and sailors must
answer the appeal of the Young
Communist League not to be mis-
used against their demonstrating
fellow workers on May LIST by fra
ternizing with the struggling work
ers and themselves joining the May
Day demonstrations. May Day,
1880, must be marked by greater
organization of all the working
class forces in the army for the
struggle against capitalist militar-
ism and war, and in preparation
for turning the next war of the
bosses into civil war of the work
ing class against the boss class.
The sharp attacks of the boss
class with all the forces at its dis
posal upon the revolutionary organ
izations of the workers still con-
tinues. The brutal attacks upon the
demonstrating workers on March 6
will be followed by sharper and
more clever attacks on May LIST,
with a greater mobilization of fas-
cist and social fascist agents of the
bosses. The answer of the work
ers to all attempts at intimidation
on March 9Th was the preparation
of bigger demonstrations on May
LIST, and the organization Of Work
ers Defense Corps to protect these
demonstrations and fight back
against police brutality and all
other forms of attempted terrorism
of the workers. The Young Com
munist League appeals to the fight
ing spirit of the young workers,
especially the members of the sport
organizations. and calls on the
young workers to be at the head to
protect the demonstrations. The
young workers must show them
selves the backbone of workers de-
Tense corps and among the most ac-
tive fighters for the rights of the
workers to the streets--against all
attempted terrorism by the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-29
SHOWS UP BROUN
The Jobs" Just Vanish

Haywood Broun's Solution" for
unemployment is to "create addi-
tional jobs till June" What these
additional jobs" look like, was re-
vealed to the Daily Worker by a
young worker who tried them out.
Haywood Broun sent some Yipsels
to an open-air meeting of the Young
Communist League, to persuade the
young workers in the audience to
try out his remedy" for unemploy-
ment. q young worker went up
and was promised $50 week job.
He had to carry clothes. But when
it came to pay, he got 81 a day.
After few days this job was taken
away from him, and probably new
ly created" for some other misled