The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18

MAY DAY this year will be momentOuS
III for the working class of the world.
This historic day, when the workers
leave the factories and gather in the
streets to raise high the banner of inter
national solidarity. comes at time when the whole
capitalist system is faced with something new in
its history-a orld-wide crisis that is rapidly de-
veloping into new era Of world wars and revo-
lutions
What do the workers see about them as they
prepare to demonstrate on May Day the day of
the fight for the emancipation of labor from cap
ital?
In every capitalist country they see the typical
curses Of capitalsm-hunger amid plenty millions
Of unemployed, factories closed while the workers
and their children live in poverty and squalor
They see every capitalist government pouring bill
lions of dollars into the laps of the bilionaires
into the Golfers of the banks and investors while
the jobless get only the most miserable scraps of
food TO keep them alive.
On this May Day, they see such capitalist
schemes as the N R. A. piing up new huge profits
for the employers while wages are sashed with the
knife Of slave Codes and the buying power of every
pay envelope is whitfield away by rising prices of
bread, milk clothes.
Five long bitter years Of capitalist crisis Five
long years of he'll for the masses, years in which
every capitalist government has helped the billion
aires to get richer while the living standards OF the
masses have been driven brutally down.
m MAY DAY this year. the workers face ques-
tons which burn fiercey in the mind of every
jobess worker, every worker facing the ruthless ex
plctation of wage slavery in the factories-how
end this crisis, how open the factories how give
food and shelter to every worker and his family?
How this terrible crisis be ended? How
can We end this insanity which destroys food wheat
cotton, while millions are hungry and ragged? How
can we break the chains of mortgage slavery for
the small impoverished farmer? How end the
yoke of the landlords, the bank leeches who bleed
the workers and the farmers alike? How can we
open the factories and give jobs to every able
bodied worker who now faces the hell of unem-
ployment?
And in bordering on these life-and- death oues-
tons millions of workers on May Day this year
Will see clearer than ever what it is that stands
IN the way of ending forever the horrors of the
crisis They will see that only the capitalist class
the bosses, the landlords, the bankers and their
system Of private property of profits of dividends
OF bond interest stands in the way
They will see that if the employers, the owners
Of the factories, the Wall Street bankers, and the
landlords were swept out of power, were deprived
OF their possessions, then the working class would
factories,
the immense profits of the blionares and use them
Tor the benefit of the masses who created them.
In short, May Day this year brings the
masses closer than ever before to the great his
torc question of our time-the road to p-oIetarian
revolution for the overthrow of capitalism
The road of Boshevism of smashing the
capitalist dictatorship and setting up the Dictator
ship of the proletariat, leading all the toilers
toward freedom from wage slavery mortgage and
rent slavery. The road to Soviet Power the road
the workers and peasants of Russia took-this
road that will put end to the insanities of
starvation amid plenty, this road faces the masses
on May Day.
MAY DAY brings before millions of workers the
"A demand for government protection against the
ravages of the crisis in the form of Social Insur-
snce and Unemployment Insurance to be paid bv
the government and the bosses
May Day brings to the fore the struggle for
higher wages for better working conditions for the
right to strike for the right to assemble freely and
form militant trade unions.
May Day raises the struggle for International
ism for the solidarity of all the workers of the
world oyerrunning all national boundaries and all
jingoism.
May Day raises the struggle for the smashing
OF the hideous jin-crow oppression of the Negro
people Of the fight for complete equality for the
Negro masses, against lynching and brutal in-crow
oppression
May Day raises the fight against imperialism
against Wall Street robbery and murder in Cuba
in Haiti, in South America in China.
The fight for bread for peace, against strike
breaking and fascist brutality for new form Of gov
ernment. Workers and Farmers Government
this is what May Day means this wear to the
workers.