The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-01
May Day in New York

build our unemployed councils more firmly! We
refuse to starve-we win fight"
The wages of the workers have been cut In
every industry-despite the lies of William Green,
the fascist ally Of the bosses. Wage slashes have
penetrated every industry and shop. But now
the bosses declare that the wages must come
down still lower. A general wage cutting drive
Is setting in, started and sponsored by the Amer
lean Manufacturers Association and the Bankers
Association The workers who have suffered
wage cuts. who have been working on Hoover's
infamous "stagger" plan, which is given a diff
ferent formulation in Green's Five hour day"
Cof course with wage reduction, face a new dras-
tic wage cut. Speed-up, stagger plan, wage re-
ductions-this is the lot of those still working
in the shops. and mills. The answer of the
employed workers is: eve will organize and
strike against wage cuts and speed-up"
Persecution Of the foreign born arrests in
their homes and shops. and quick transportation
to Ellis Island with the threat Of deportation
facing them; Jim Crowisn and discrimination
against the Negroes, with the police battering
the heads Of the white and Negro workers who
fight for Negro rights Gin Harlem, when the
white and Negro workers demonstrated for the
release Of the nine Scottsboro Negro boys
these are more Of the issues facing the workers
The answer of the workers is: eve viii organize
white and Negro workers, natives and foreign
born to fight against these prosecutions"
May Day will not solve these issues Only or
ganization and struggle will help the workers of
this state and country-native and foreign-born,
Negro and white, young and old-to meet the
issue The fascist leaders Of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor. assisted by their left wing,
the Musteites and Communist renegades, will do
nothing to help the workers in organization and
struggle. Their role Is to help the bosses to
smash the organizations Of the working class. to
crush the spirit of the workers fighting against
the crisis The social fascist leaders Of the So
cialist party work with the police against the
workers, helping them to deny the unemployed
unemployment relief, approving the attacks on
the unemployed workers. procuring injunctions
from the Tamnany courts, working with the
gangsters against the workers.
May Day this year faces the workers with new
danger of war. The q. s. government has ap-
propriated $4,000 100000 this year, of which two
thirds according to the government reports) is
for war purposes Poison lies are being spread
against the Soviet Union ("dumping" forced
vention in the Soviet Union. Savage attacks are
being made on the Nicaraguan workers and
peasants ("clean out the bandits says HooverD
Hoover's government whose hands are dripping
with the blood of the workers and peasants of
China, the Philippines. Porto Rico and Haiti,
talks about "bandits"i
The workers Of New York together with the
workers all over the country and the world, must
organize and fight against the plans Of the
bosses and their government This May Day
must be the beginning Of broad. nationwide
campaign of organization to fight for unemploy-
ment insurance and relief, against wage cuts,
speed-up and the stagger plan, for the 7-hour
day with no reduction in pay, against persecu-
ton Of the foreign born, against discrimination,
segregation and lynching of the Negroes against
imperialist war (an war funds for the unenn-
ployeO for full support of the workers and
peasants of Nicaragua, Haiti and other colonial
countries against the inperialist bandits, for de-
Tense of the Soviet Union against innperialist
interventionl
This May Day. the workers will think more
clearly about the entire system, about the con-
dition Of the working class and the fight against
all the enemies of the working class. This May
Day the workers will understand better that not
a particular capitalist group is responsible for
the misery and starvation Of the workers and
poor farmers Of this country. and Of other capt.
talist countries, but capitalism itself is to blame
for their hunger. This May Day. they will think
more clearly as the Russian workers thought In
1917 as the German and Polish workers. as the
Chinese and Indian workers and peasants are
thinking today. They will understand that only
the overthrow of the whole system Of capitalist
exploitation and robbery. Of imperialist plumber.
will solve their misery and that Workers and
Farmers Government must be established in its
place.
Revolutionary struggle of the workers OF all
countries, white and Negro, young and old, men
and women--this is the united slogan for May
Day.
AL workers out on May Day in demonstration
and protest. All out-lnemployed and employed,
Negro and white-at Madison Square and march
to Union SQUARED Make the Square resound with
revolutionary working class challenge after the
fascist Veterans of Foreign Wars and social fas-
cist socialist leaders have filled the air with their
slogans Of loyalty to American imperialism All
out May Demonstrated