The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1927, Page 11

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telosnleteletestnatndentnles A MIGHTY PAIR eee aertosioeient feted feofeofortoatoetnetocfoctorfon coebninntededeteceoeebobebetetes i nis focletocfes a as Selects opsteofeteotecfetecs Root Srerreerenreees Se a a ee ey -Preparation of Leaders for the Workers’ Struggles. “Training for the Class Struggle” 108 E. 14th St, New York City Workers School I. MAY DAY GREETINGS! OUR SLOGANS Training for the Class Struggle. Build the Working Class Movement. Preparation of Leaders for the Workers’ Struggles. Without Class Education there Can Be No Effective Class Struggle by the Workers. Since last May Day the Workers School has made great progress in the carrying out of these aims. Registration for the fall and spring terms was 2000, 80 per cent. of these union members. The Workers School helped the workers and strikers of New York City and vicinity thru furnishing speakers, research material, scholar- ships, etc.; furnished speakers to forums in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Jersey cities; offered courses in American Labor Problems, Labor Journalism, Theory and Practice of Trade Union Work, New Tactics of Employers, American Economic and Political History, Decline of the British Empire, Marxism, Leninism, Fundamentals of Communism, Problems of the Communist Movement. Some in- structors were Bertram D. Wolfe, Scott Nearing, William W. Weinstone, Robert Dunn, Alexander Trachtenberg, Arthur C. Calhoun, J Mindel, D. Benjamin, Art Shields, Harvey O'Connor. The growth of the School has shown itself in the en- largement of headquarters and the doubling of seating capacity, in addition to the building up of a library of over 100 volumes. The spirit, work, attendance and study of the students are sufficient proof that the Workers School is accomplishing its aims —- Training for the Class Struggle; Build the Working Class Movement; Without Class Education There Can Be No Effective Class Struggle by the Workers. Il. SPRING COURSES - REGISTER NOW! 1. FUNDAMENTALS OF COMMUNISM-—- sessions, begins Thurs., April 28, 6:45 to 8 P. M., Ella G. Wolfe, instructor, fee $2.50. 2. THE CHINESE REVOLUTION—4 sessions, begins Fri., May 13, 8 to 10 P. M., H. M. Wicks, instructor, fee $1.25. 3. DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN IDEOLOGY—3 sessions, be- gins, Fri., June 10, 8 to 10 P. M., Bertram D. Wolfe, instructor, fee $1.00. 4, FORUM—every Sunday night, 8 P. M., except May 1 and May May 22, speakers for month of May include Jay Lovestone and Joseph Freeman. IIL. NATIONAL SUMMER TRAINING COURSE! 1. This course will be similar to the one which was so successfully given in the summer of 1926. At that time 75 comrades attended, 40 of whom were from out of town and 85 from New York City. Some students came from as far distant points as San Francisco, Kansas City, Chicago and Canada. The course consisted of 5 one-hour sessions a day for 2 weeks together with 3 hours daily for study. The following courses were given: America Today, Marxis*, Leninism, American Economic and Political History, History of the American Working Class, Theory and Practice of Trade Union Work, History of the Communist Party, Communist Party Organization Problems, Youth Problems and Methods of Teaching. The instructors were Jay Lovestone, Bertram D. Wolfe, Alexander Trachtenberg, Anton Bimba, Wil- liam F. Dunne, Wm. W. Weinstone, Jack Stachel, Sam Don and D. Benjamin. 2. The training course this summer will be held the last two weeks of July or the first two weeks in August. 1 8. Among the courses that will probably be given are: Marxism, Leninism, America Today, American Economic and Political History, Theory and Practice of Trade Union Work, Problems of the Communist Movement, Communist Party rganization, Youth Problems and the Chinese Revolution. 4, Some instructors will be: Jay Lovestone, William Z. Foster, Bertram D. Wolfe, William F. Dunne, Max Bedacht, William W. Weinstone, H. M. Wicks and Jack Stachel. 5. Watch the Daily Worker for further details or write to Bertram D. Wolfe, Director of the Workers School, 106-108 East 14th Street, New York City. SPECIAL MAY DAY SUPPLEMENT | | power felt, that power. which is in our | chair for over six years. jAmerica and the rest of the world| jean save them. Let us make of May j@very corner of our land we gather 4 \chinery af our government ont of the -3 | strate against boss controlled goy- May Day Declaration (Continued from Page One) Union and the entire world against | the war plots. Let us make our numbers, and let us raise our voices in one world-wide shout that no goey- ernment will dare disobey: WE DEMAND THE RECOGNI- TION OF THE CHINESE PEO. PLE'S GOVERNMENT! WE DEMAND THE WITHDRAW- AL OF THE TROOPS AND MAR- INES! | WE DEMAND THE RECOGNI- TION OF THE SOVIET UNION! HANDS OFF CHINA! HANDS OFF SOVIET RUSSIA! WE WILL NOT. TOLERATE A| NEW WORLD WAR! Sacco and Vanzetti. | Then there is the cruel order of ju- dicial murder decreed by the capital- ist. courts of Massachusetts against the two working class fighters, Sacco and Vanzetti. The international soli- darity of the working class with mass demonstrations in every industrial center in the world has thus far saved Sacco and Vanzetti from the electric But now the date has been set for their execu- tion and only the working class of | | Day such a unanimous demonstration in favor of Saceo and Vanzetti that the executioners will not dare carry out the sentence, Let no worker be missing when in mass meetingsy in together in one mighty demonstra- tion to declare: SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL} per DIE! SACCO AND VANZETTI MUST} |GO FREE! oe henon |FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARM. Finally, there are the probiéms of ERS’ GOVERNMENT. | It is not enough to get Sacco and! Vanzetti out of jail. It is not enough | to stop the plot to plunge our coun- jtry into a new world war. So long | |€8 the bosses control the courts, they will continue to frame up workers. | So long as the bosses control the) courts they will continue to issue in- junctions against strikes and picket-| of the hands of the bosses. government they will be sending our | marines to Nicaragua and China. So/| long as Wall Street controls the gov-| new war. We must take our govern- ment out of the hands of the bankers and corporations. the republican and democratic par- ties—the bosses will continue to con- trol the government and frame-ups, anti-labor legislation, injunctions and imperialist adventures and wa dan- gers will continue. The workers must end their support of the republican | and democratic parties. We must! build a powerful labor party of our own to inelude all the workers’ or- ganizations, all the unions and all the! Political organizations of the work- ers. We murt build an all-inclusive labor party. And supported by the Poor farmers, we must take the ma-| jhands of the bosses, and into the| |hands of the workers and poor farm-| jers. On May Day, International La- \bor Day, every worker must demon- ing. We must take the courts out! | So long as Wall Strect controls the| ernment there is always danger of | So long as the workers. cantinue to) strung by corrupt and. reacti support the bosses’ political parties—| Red He was a “red” ernment with its labor frame-ups, in- | front of all the workers of our coun- | funetions and war policy. FOR A try, organized and unorganized alike. LABOR PARTY AND. FOB A} Let no man fail to be at his post at WORKERS’ ANT. FARMERS*-GOV- the big May Day meetings. Fight} ERNMENT IN AMERICA.<* 2° for the existence of the unions. Fight |for the organization of the unorgan- | : : : ; They said. ized. Fight for the amalgamation of | x our labor movement at home. |the craft unions into powerful indus- | He did not fear The big corporations are attacking trial unions. Fight against class col- | The leer it with their company unions and |laboration betrayal. Fight for a fight-| Of any king their open-shop drives. The bosses’ | ing union policy. And fight for the | 0 ‘thi courts are attacking it with injunc-|right of the left wingers and Com-| (Mes tions and frame-ups such as the|munists: who are the ehampions of } He spoke the truth frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti in| the organization of. the unorganized, | To youth Massachusetts and the frame-up of jamalgamation and fighting unionism | And to old age. |Ben Gold and the other furrier lead-| to be in the unions and for their cor- A sage ers in New York. |rect policies to prevail. Th x a a hi " on | Workers .of América—such is the | ey caller im then. Must Fight For Unions. | meaning of the May Day demonstra- Of men The employers have succeeded in| tions. this May Day. Every worker; He was a brother. building up a united front of the/in the country must participate. Every = M ! courts, the police, reactionary labor! worker in the land must show his No other leaders and the leaders of the Social- | solidarity with his class in these fate Was meek as he, ist Party to crush the left wing that|ful moments of war. and_ reaction, To free is fighting for a. policy of militant| Every worker must raise his ¢ in} unionism. Our unions are weak, - | one universal shout that will be heard | vided by crafts, include only a smali|thruout our land and thruout the part of the working class, are hami- | world. Man’s mind he sought And taught Men love and peace, , ary | CO AND VANZETTI MUST| To.cease |leaders, and in the coal mires andy BE FREE! Their wars ahd hates < needle trades industries are fighting} HANDS OFF CHINA! go me aed re be this mament tor thele very exit. | sanng Ger NICARAGUA. AND Relates | ence. Those who fight for the or- | eEXICO! iad salctdayh eer 3s The story told j ganization of the unorganized, the “CACO! oe THE Of old. | amalgamation of the weak craft uma OFF THE. SOVINT| Th . is ] junions. into powerful industrial | No NEW WAR! rg priest and prince unions, the sdoption of @ fighting) Savm AND STRENGTHEN THE Did wince policy to defend our unions against UNIONS! j At what he said, destruction and to defend the inter-| ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED | And dead ests of our class—these the bosses | WORKERS! Gide 2 | They wished this man and tha tte, drive out of the unions) “MAINTAIN A FIGHTING UNION | Whee si and the trade union bureaucracy and POLICY! | ose pian right wing Socialist leaders are co- Reed a | They greatly feared— operating in this dirty task of cutting | BUILD A LABOR PARTY! | They reared the fighting heart out of our unions,| _TAKE THE GOVERNMENT out} Ac A united front of the coal operators | OF THE WANDS OF BANKERS | “oe and hung and needle trades, bosses and other |AND WAR-MAKING IMPERIAL- Him young employers, the courts and police, us- |ISTS! Upon it high ing the Wolls and Lewises and Sig-| BUILD A WORKERS AND FAR- | To die! mans as their tools—against this uni- MERS GOVERNMENT IN AMER-| ted front we must oppose a united |ICA! —HENRY REICH, JR. greets th great masses of over, To you liberated Unitedly we will With solidarity! EEEEELEEEEEEEAL ELE EEE EEE EEE KEEL EEE Eee Seb HE UNITED COUNCIL OF WORKINGCLASS HOUSEWIVES on May Ist, 1927 On this May. Ist, the workingclass women in America ean take with pride an ae- count:of their achievements for the past year. the working¢élass women in America have fulfilled their task of organizing and educating workingelass women in America have succeeded in uniting their struggles with the strug- gles of their brothers, the workers. . \ On, sisters, workingclass women, for sthé coming year with resoltte determination for more achievements, deeper into the masses of workingelass women. for more clarification in the class struggle. The United Council of Workingclass Housewives greets the workingclass women the world The United Council of Workingelass Housewives greets their awakened sisters, the work- ingelass women of China. May you come out victorious in your hard stryzgle for the lib- eration of Chinese workers. ‘ ‘ sends greetings. On we shall march to the goal, nearer and nearer until we here in America reach your standard. THE UNITED COUNCIL OF WORKINGCLASS HOUSEWIVES, FEEEEEEEEEEEEE LE ELEE EERE DEE EEE EEE PEPEEEE EE EE EE EH HH eir toiling sisters from the shops, factories and homes. In the land of capitalist strongholds workingclass women for the class struggle under great difficulties. The sisters of Soviet Russia, the United Council of Workingclass Housewives march on until the workingclass the world over will be liberated. KATE GITLOW, Secretary. REEEEEEEE EEE EE ELE EEEESEEEEREFHEFEEEEREREER y

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