The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
The S. p. Celebrates May
Day to COUer BetrayaLs
of W0rkerS Entire Year
Rx ROSE WORTIs

WITHIN few days workers of
" New York City will gather to
celebrate May LIST through a mass
parade and demonstration in Union
Square and mass meeting organ
lied by the Communist Party in
Madison Square Garden, May l,
1884, has a greater significance to
the labor movement than ever be-
fore.
The workers of New York City,
those organized under the leader
ship of the Trade Union Unity
Council, the independent unions,
and those in the A, F. of L., must
give serious thought as to how and
with whom they are going to cele-
brade May l, have through demon
stration live up to the true mean
ing and purpose Of May l as a day
of international solidarity and in
ternational struggle against our
class enemies, the capitalists and
those who are aligned with capital
ism.
May l was established by the in
ternational revolutionary movement
as day of international solidarity
in which the working class gathers
its forces for a more determined
struggle against capitalism. May /
therefore belongs to the revolution
airy movement, which Utilities this
day of international demonstration
in order to strengthen the struggle
against capitalism and to express
its solidarity with the workers of the
one country, the Soviet Union,
where capitalism has been over
thrown through the revolutionary
uprising of the working class.
THE Socialist Party has long aban-
l doned the idea of a revolution
airy struggle against capitalism and
in its day to day work has shame
fully betrayed every thing that
May Day stands for. In the past
year in particular the Socialist
Party of the United States and its
supporters in the trade unions. just
like the social democratic party Of
Germany and the entire Second In
ternstional, have a record Of the
most shameless betrayals of the
working class.
In this article we want TO review
the activities of the Socialist Party
and the socialist trade union bu-
reauerats in the day to day struggles
of the American workers.
When the capitalist class of this
country, aware of the rising tide
Of struggle of the workers against
the wholesale wage cuts, mass I'M
employment and the lowering of
the standards of living, came for
ward with the NJ r. A. as an in
strument to break the rising tide of
struggle, the Socialist Party lead
ers, Just like their brothers of Ger
many, aligned themselves with the
Roosevelt government and declared
the N. r. A. new charter of labor.
The union bureaucrsts in the So
eialist controlled unions, such as
the 1. L. G. W. u, openly declared
that with the enactment of the
N, r. A. there would be no further
need of strikes, that the govern
ment would do the trick,
AS a result of this treachery. gains
made by the dressmakers in the
historic strike of last summer have
practically been wiped out. Today
10000 dressmakers are locked out
of the shops, while their union, UNI
der the leadership of the Socialists,
Dubinsky and HOFFMAN, and their
ally, Zimmerman, is maneuvering
with the jobbers to drive the work.
ers back to the shop under the old
sweatshop conditions.
In the strike struggles that fol-
lowed the enactment of the N. r. A.,
the Socialist Party and the trade
union bureaucrats have played the
most treacherous role, equal to the
treachery of their colleagues in Ger
many, in Austria, In the needle
trades, the Forward" and the So
oialist Party prevented the unifea-
ton of the workers, carried on a
vicious attack against the militant
elements in the Industrial Union,
which called on the workers not to
depend on the N. r. A. but to fight
militantly for their union conditions.
IN THE recent strike in the shoe
! industry, where 10000 workers for
period of II and 13 weeks were
fighting the bitter open shoppers,
the Socialist Party through its press
and its leaders openly lined up
with the bosses and helped the
bosses to build up a seab agency, the
Foot and Shoe, which is controlled
by the bosses as an instrument to
bring back the open shop conditions
and to rob the shoe workers Of the
gains made as a result of their
bitter struggle.
In the food industry the Socialist
Party and their socialist controlled
unions have resorted to the most
vicious anti-labor injunctions in or
der to break the strikes of the
cafeteria workers, the grocery clerks
who are militantly fighting for the
right to be organized into union
of their own choice and for decent
living conditions.
In the jewelry trade the Socialist
Party leaders in the last strike,
which for the first time in many
years practically tied UP the in
dustry, sold out the workers during
the very height of the strike and
gave up rights won by the workers
even during the time when the in