The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
ProVocations Against May
Day Unity

THE lengths to which the Socialist leaders will
go in their attempt to create division between the
workers is illustrated by the following quotation
taken from the latest, May Day, issue of the So
cialist Party New Leader:
There will be no clash and no bloOdshed
and that may disappoint the Communists, Thou
sands of rank and file labor uniOnists will echo
the disappointment of the trade union leader who
exclaimed at a May Day Committee meeting: The
Communists are looking for another Madison
Square Garden meeting at Union Square. Let
'em come and try it, It's thing to yell like
wild beasts and throw chairs from upper balconies.
It's another thing to try to break up dem
Onstration of union men ready for it."
The Communists will be disappointed" if there
is no "olooshed"-the Communists are people who
stir up violence and bloodshed" the Commu-
nists are eager for violence and bloodshed Thus
speaks the Socialist New Leader.
Is not this the language of the police? Is not this
the language of the vicious capitalist press when
they seek to justify the gangster attacks of vigil
antes and American Legion mobs?
Can any class conscious worker fail to see in
this kind of language the very same kind of mob
Indictment to violence that is the stock-in- trade
of professional red baiters"?
How different is this kind of come on-and-
fght,-you-Reds," talk from the language of the
budding American Fascists in the vigilante-Amer-
lean Legion gangs who attack meetings and strikes
of the working class? There is essentially no diff
ference at all
IT is historic fact that every worker knows from
! his own experience that the ruling class always
iustifes its own savage brutality against the work
ing class by precisely such talk as this about
radical violence"
It was with lust such talk that American cap
talsm attempted to sweeten the foul murder of the
Hsymarket martyrs whose nartyrdom gave birth
to this very May Day that we now celebrated
It was with such talk Of radical bloodshedo
that the ruling class masters framed Tom Mooney
sacco and vanzett That is how they used to spit
at Eugene Victor Debs when he was fighting Amer
lean capitalism.
Today, that is how Fascisrn everywhere iustifes
its terrorism against the revolutionary movement
with hystercal lies about radical violence and
bloodshed"
1t is therefore sinister fact that this kind of
vicious provocaton in the New Leader is only
helping to pave the way for the unleashing of
Fascist savagery against the whole labor movement
THE Socialist leaders talk of unity" But there
is unity and unity There is the Socialist Party
unity with militarist Won Hindenburg in Germany,
with the Fascist Dollfuss in Austria
Similarly, there is the Socialist Party unity with
the Wall Street Roosevelt government in support
of the strike-breaking N. R. A. Codes the strike
breaking Wagner Bill unity with the Wall Street
tool, LaGuardia, and the professional labor faker,
Matthew Wo
This unity with the capitalist class or its agents.
the Communist workers reject with all the power of
their class hatred.
The Communist call for unity is for unity Of
the workers AGAINST capitalism and its agents,
whether these agents the open fascists like
Hindenburg Dolfuss or the Wall Street agents
wrapped up in the rags of Rocscveltian "liberal-
ISM" That is the only unity that has any value
or meaning for the toiling masses. The rest is
treachery disguided as unity"
1t is the Communists alone who strive for the