The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1930, Page 2

i mportant HERB By Th capital crisis s for kers the immediate ping themselves and milies alive despite the fact deprived of the op- ning a livelihood. At he time great unemp ment demon: ions of March yme sever ns of workers were | e that with this problem. e, trom Washing- s grown to eight r of unem- City te t of the emanatin; grow The present crisis of the capi ion. The effect is upon the workers is the re- 1lt of the capitalist policy for ng the er For of ruling class all problems are ap- roached from the point of view of profit for the owners of i ry When profitable mar ) longer be found for all the pos- sible produ of industry, the ies, m d mills cu in produc’ When this and The History Issues Fa |talists, they again proceed to solve their problem at the expense of the working class by reducing wages, lengthening hours of work inten- sifying speed-up thus maintaining their profits by reducing the cos Bosses Have No Solution. even the capitalist ruling knows that this 1s no per- nent solution. They know that they must not only r But despite the many optimistic | profits during the crisis but must | look to eventually overcoming the crisis. This is not so simple. But, no one can accuse the capitalists of not trying. The capitalists know that the erisis occurs because their | ing cla: dustries can produce could marke The further of the living standards of ers and the mass unemploy- to further reduce the at home. The solution is therefore—new markets, more mar- sts. But, the world market has] y been distr ed among ous imperialist nations. Each is ly guarding, be each se needs so badly, the markets which th now control, The task is, erefore, to overpower the guard jand take the market of the rival im- |perialist nation away by force. s in the first instance so so when attempting a permanent tion for its problems, the capi- t ruling class places the burden its problems upon the workers. working ¢ forced to ac- so) is cept a further xetion of its liv- ing standards in order more billions of dollars may be made available for the ntenance larger and more equipped armies and na ally, the of the Workers' intl Fighting Day from 1886 and Since American Workers Have Tradition of Sharp Class By SAM DARCY H STORY played a trick on the American Federation of Labor. It appointed Samuel Gompers as ome of the officiating nursemaids at he cradle «7 International May Day. Gompers tells at least gart of the story > origin of May Day. In his autobiography he writes as follows: plans for the eight-hour movement developed, we were constantly realizing how we could widen our purvose. As the time for the meeting of the Interna- tional Workingmen’s Congress in Paris (July 14, 1889) approached, it occurred to me that we could aid our movement by an expres- sion of world wide sympathy from that Congr ss y letter informed the Paris of our American efforts to celebrate the coming May Day by establishing eight hours for the carpenters and urged to co- operate. The proposal fell upon the ears of two bitterly warring factions. The German delegation headed by Liebknecht, Bebel and | Singer, opposed the resolution on the ground that under the Im- perial German Government it would be suicide for them to ap- prove the ment. Herr Lieb- hatically opposed the d that labor not strong taking. for an eight hours demonstrat was adopted and there was pretty general obsérvance of the day.” But this, his own writing, must | have sounded badly to the ears of | the old reactionary Gompers. Fol- Jowing the narration of the above facts, showing clearly the initiative role of American labor, he adds the | amazingly’ brazen remark that: “That was the origin of Euro- pean May Day which has become a regular institution in all Euro- pean countries.” Gompers in his book attempts to take the credit for the origin of the May Day idea. This is of course utter nonsense. The proposal first was made in 1884 by a local of the Knights of Labor in Baltimore, It was defeated within that organiza- tion through the efforts of the re- actionary Powderly, the Grand Mas- ter Workman, In the United States May Day demonstrations were held in many of the big cities throughout the country already four years before the movement was taken up in Europe! In Chicago 40,000 men went on strike, closing thereby many factories and crippling transporta- took place between Fights e and wor tories in the country. Workers were clubbed and shot down by the police. In New York a huge May Day meeting was held in Union Square. Police brutality was es- pecially aimed at the German work- ers who because they were the most recent immigrants of the time suf- fered the worst conditions and were the most militant in the class strug- gle. Among the first efforts to in- troduee May Day to the Russian masses is that of 1896. Lenin, then incarcerated in the Czar’s dungeons for his political activity, wrote and smuggled out of prison a May Day manifesto in the name of the ieague for the Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class Fights hich was distributed to the we ers in tories in Petersburg n a total 000 copies. For ana effect there y leaiiets to surpass this one. has a total of abc It is marked by a t of the hectic, complicated and excite phraseology which mark so many of our own leaflets. We reprint here the opening paragraph: vords, Comrades! Let us consider very carefully our position pt us examine the conditions in which we spend our | lives, What do we see? We work | long and hard. We produce end- | less wealth, gold and apparel, satins and silks. From the depths of the earth we extract iron and coal. We build machines, we out- fit ships, we construct railroads. All the wealth of the world is the product of our hands, of our seat and blood. And what 1 of wages do we get for this forced labor? If things were as they should, we would be living in fine houses, we would wear xvod clothes, and would never have to | suffer any need. But we know well enough that our wages never suffice for our living. Our bosses push dow force us to work over ce unjust fines upon us—in a word opp every way. And then give voice to our dis: we are thrown into prison without further ado. In this brief simple fashion does Lenin speak to the wo: in the \May Day manifesto of 1896, The s i £ this jeaflet helped to |start a strike in the textile mills of | 40,000 spinners and weavers. In the United States, Gompers and his crew had long since be- trayed Workers’ May Day. To- gether with the government, Labor Day in September was substituted. The government made a long series of attempts to take May 1 away jfrom the workers as a day of mili- tant struggle. When this genera- tion was still young, May 1 was declared to be ‘Dewey Day” in the United States. Attempts were made to parade in commemoration of this jbutcher of colonial workers. But all in vain. For the past decade or thereabouts, May 1 has been de- clared Child Health Day. But this monstrous hypocrisy of the exploit- ers of four million child laborers never deceived the masses. This year scared by the tremend- ous demonstrations of August 1, the New York Katovis demonstration, ‘and demonstrations on March 6, In- ternational Unemployment Day, the police are doing everything they -can to ¢ the right of workers to ‘meet on the streets away from us. ‘In New York City a police edict that not a single workers’ ting will be permitted on the streets. Instead the biggest city centers, including Union Square, the (scene of the first May Day demon- jStration in the United States in | 1886, will be given over to fascists and armed police. Will we be less worthy than our proletarian ancestors in the May Day struggle against our bosses? August 1, the events around the Katovis demonstration, and March 6 say NO! The workers of New York and of the entire country have shown that they know how to carry on the glorious fighting tradition of the American working class. May Day, 1930, will go down in history, together with the events related | distributi. *Excerpts from an article in the May issue of The Communist. y above and many more not yet told, as a shining example of working intain their | more than/ expense of the workers. of | k | workers must provide the bone and sinew for the imperialist slaughter | which takes place in the war for markets. | Fight Capitalist Solution for Crisis. In the present period when the of capitalism grows deeper and more general, ever larger num- bers of workers become involved in |struggles against unemployment, | wage-cuts, attacks upon their work- | ing and living conditions which they ‘soon recognize as manifestations not of the individual whims of their | bosses, but as the result of a gen- f eral crisis of capitalism and the | general policy of the capitalist rul- for solving the crisis at the The grow- jing radicalization of the working class throughout the United States and throughout the world is the re- sult of the growing realization on the part of ever broader masses of workers that the solution for the working class lies in a struggle inst the system which produces the crisis, against the s which benefits from that system and jagainst the government which sup- ports it and enforces the policy of the ruling class for imposing the burden of the crisis upon the; workers | crisis The Day of Struggle Against Capitalism. | The issues raised by the Commu- nist Party, rise out of these gen- feral problems that confront the en-, | tire worki As the spokes- ma’ rking the Communist Party declares that we will fight against the policy of the es. That we will fight for the seven hour day—five day week; ainst speed-up and lengthening of la clas: class Statement of the New York District Executive Committee Since May Day, 1929, the New | York workers hav: participated in ever sharpening struggles. A whole series of strikes in the needle trades, shoe, food, building maintenance ands other industries took place in which all the sharpness of the class strug- |gle was shown. On the one side {were the workers led by the Com- munist Party, and on the other side were the bosses with the entire ma- chinery of government at ‘heir com- mand, aided by the American Fed- |eration of Labor and the Socialist |Party, who used more insidio more hidden methods for stabbing the working class in order to carry out the work of the bosses where the open agents of the capitalist class failed. This same line-up of forces was’ clearly evident in the demonstration lagainst erialist war last August. Ww the police in the course of one of Lhe strikes of a section of the! working class brutally attacked the picket lines and murdered our Com- rade, Steve Katovis, the Socialists and the American Federation of La- bor sneered at our murdered com- yade and did everything they could: unemployed against the miserable}OR WAGES, cing the Wo MAY 1929 AND |ment of DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, rkers in the May APRIL 29, 19 the work-day as one means for re-| of how to build the socialist society. ducing unemployment. We fight for unemployment insurance at the expense of the bosses and bosses’ government and agai: wage-cuts as one means of resisting the ef forts to reduce the already miser able living standards of the workers We fight ®gainst the imperialis war which means the slaughter of millions of workers in the interest of the bosses profits. We fight for defense of the Soviet Union, because the bosses seek to destroy this the one workers government in order to impose their oppressive rule upon the 150 millions of workers and peasants, members of our class, who are setting an inspiring example to the working class the world over These are the issues which the Communist Party is raising on this May Day. demands of the working class, mil- lions of workers throughout the world and hundreds of thousands throughout the U. S., will demon- strate on this May Day under the teadership of their world Party the Communist International, In New York City and in many more large | cities and towns throughout the} United States, hundreds of thou- sands of workers will lay down their tools, will pour out of the factories in a mass political strike in support of these demands. The Right to the Streets. The May Day demonstrations in in order to prevent mass protest against the murder. Despite th over 50,000 workers gathered Union Square, while over 20,000 pa- raded behind the bier of Comrade Katovis. Tremendous unemployment had York working class as well as that of the entire country to an unbear- able point. A tremendous move- ment developed among the workers against unemployment and for the demand of work or wages. The en- emies of the workers did everything they could to browbeat the masses gathered on that day in order to pre- vent the demonstration from taking place. The Socialist and American Federation of Labor trade union bureaucracy threatened to fire work- ers who participated in this demon- stration. The city government mob- jlized, according to the announce- the police commissioner himself, 17,000 police besides plain ciothes men, stool pigeons, and other agents provocateur in order to pre- vent the lemonstration. Yet despite this, 110,000 workers gathered Union Square under the leadership in| s rsened the conditions wf the New) | in} \ TIONS, FOR THE DEF! of the Communist Party expressing | the solidarity of the employed and conditions which are inflicted upon the working class by the capitalist em of society. Having faileu to prevent the demonstration, the police threw murderous attacks upon the assembled worke' tempt of the workers to march to City Hall to present their demands. The delegation elected to lead thi march was arrested and subsequent- ly sentenced to three years’ impris- onment. Following this demonstration the city government again attempted to prevent the use of the streets to the working class of New York for May Day. However, the tremendous mass pressure against this new at- tempted persecution forced the city government to retreat. ON MAY DAY MANY TENS OF} THOUSANDS OF WORKERS WILL MARCH UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF THE COMMU- NIST PARTY AND DEMON- STRATE IN UNION SQUARE AGAINST SPEED-UP AND WAGE CUTS, FOR THE AND 5-DAY WEEK, IMPERIALIST AGAINST R_ PREPARA- NSE OF THE SOVIET UNION. AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT, FOR WORK FOR EQUAL PAY In support of these vital | MAY DAY 1920. , broke up the at-| 7-HOUR DAY- 0 a the United States as elsewhere thru- out the world will be held under the leadership of sections of the Com- munist International. The demon- strations under the Communist leadership will not be gatherings to express pious wishes and hypocritic | sentiments as they were and con-| | tinue to be under socialist leader- ship. The demonstrations will serve to consolidate the fighting forces of | the working class and will be the means for adding to these forces | new militant proletarians to be drawn into conscious participation }in the revolutionary organization and struggles of the working cl The Communist Party and the re- volutionary unions will be further strengthened through the work which we have done in preparation for May Day and by the strike and demonstration of that day. It is precisely because the May |Day demonstrations as all demon- strations and activities under Com- munist leadership i |thening the workir |upsesting the plans of the capitalist jfor imposing the burden of the cri- upon the workers, that all ef- forts have been made and being | made by the bosses and their agents to prevent and interfere with our |May Day demonstrations. It i | precisely for thi: -son that every militant worker must assist by all mea with all energy + ing these demonstrations, in mak- tremen- dow ings of hv s of rr det ed proletarians of all races, age and sex. Every mili tant worker must not only leave the shop on May Day, but must induce the other workers in the shop to do |Gth that employed we musi march through the streets and mass at our demon- strat in proof of our determi- n 1 to fight : he policies of the bosses and f the revolu- ti program of the working class. inst the capitalist system throvgh the establishment of the rule of the workers. Defeat Boss Terror and Their Agents. The bosses are terrified by the splendid militancy shown by the workers on March 6th, when one and and a quarter millions of work- ers took the streets to demonstrate against unemployment in def. :e of the threats and die~'»y of force made by the bosses government or- gans, For May Fi the attempts to intimidate and divide the work- ers have been intensified. In New York, all the black * of reac- tion were mobilized agains+ the workers. Chief-thug Whalen an- nounced immediately after March “the Communists would never against be allowed to use Union Square or the streets for demonstrations.” The fascist or-| ganizations that cover up their in- famous activities against the| workers under a mask of “patriot! ism” pre-emted Union Square for s|a demonstration against May Day | and against the working class. ‘The | fascist leaders in @ontrol of the} AF of L, the Wolls, Greens and | Ryans announced that they would assist in the attack upon the work- day of solidarity. The social | ist socialist party which long | ago betrayed everything that May Day stands for, called a strike and | a celebration in order to lead the fas ay Strike and Demonstration revolutionary demonstration called by the Communist Party and the United Front May Day Conference. The renegades from Communism, the expelled Lovestoneites ana Trotzkyites sought to split the forces under the immediate leader- ship of the Communist Party, call- ing upon the workers to force the Party to retreat in the face of the threats of the government. The workers under the leadership of the Communist Party answered these threats with a determined struggle for the right of the work- ers to the streets and to Union Sq. Hundreds of resolutions pledging support for this fight from working class organizations, showed the fighting mood of the workers. The Tammany politicians who admin- ister the affairs of the city govern- ment for the bosses were forced ‘to back down. Union Square and the right to march on the streets has been won by the workers. While the workers know that this by no means insures our march and demonstration against the at- tacks of police and fascists, the workers have learned from thew fight for Union Square the value of their mass power. Scores of thous- ands will strike, will mobilize in Rutgers Square and march to Union Square, with a clearer under- standing of the issues involved in the struggle and with determination to carry this struggle forward till the final victory of the working class over the capitalist class and its fascist and social fascist agents, May Day in New York will this year be a red letter day that will advance our struggle for all power likewise. Together with the un-|workers away from the militant|to the workers! ; Young Communist League !FOR EQUAL WORK FOR WO- eo ee and the Struggles WORKERS, AND FOR COMPLETE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EQUAL- y Day also the Socialist | ing to mislead the arranging concerts in} of the city. This mi: erable dee must not deceive a single work All militant work- Jers will see through this service which the ialist Party is render- ing the bosses and will participate | in the demonstration and parade lfrom Rutgers Square to Union quare, and will do so knowing full ell that these demonstrations are | demonstrations not only against the} bosses but also against the agents) ot the bosses, including the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and So- cialist Party. THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES, NEW! YORK DISTRICT, EXTENDS HEARTIE ST REVOLUTIONARY} GREETINGS TO THE WORKING, MASSES OF NEW YORK AND! UGES ALL WORKERS TO PRE-| PARE FOR ADEQUATE PARTICI- TION IN THE DEMONSTRATION ; 'ON MAY DAY.. | \ Party | workers other part: y Jack L, Perilla Our par approaching an elec- | |tion campaign after such eventful days as March 6th, Katovis and 1st when our party in New | York the \of the Communist Party hundred of | thou ands of wrokers to struggle for the political and economic de- mands of the Workers, This was possible becayge the workers realize that the Communist Party the only party fighting for their de- mands. Because of this the sharpest of attacks are made against our party. The influence of our party has grown tremendously. The Economic crisis that is facing the workers in this country and state is the sever- est that we have ever gone through mobilized under banner try and one million in the State ot | New York.) Untold sufferin., faces | workers. By I, AMTER (Written in Prison.) “Splendid Propaganda for Communist Party!” This was stated by Prof. D. H. Kulp of Teachers’ College, Colum- 'bia University, when analyzing the |films of the March 6 demonstration jin New York and Washington be- fore his class in Horace Mann Audi- torium on April 16. “Splendid Propaganda for the) Communist ” We thought the Party!’ Whalen was sure that “the Unem- ployed Delegation was responsible for the riot.” We thought the con- |viction was “the greatest victory of the year,” as District Attorney Crain declared. class revolutionary solidarity and courageous fighting ability for our slogans: For the political mass strike, For 7-hour day, 5-day week, Against imperalist war—for the defense of our workers fatherland, the Soviet Union. For work or wages. For a Workers and Farmers Gov- ernnent. { and more intensive exploitation, Added burdens have been placed on the workers in the form of addi- | tional taxes to take care of the tre- mendous war preparations that are being made. The election campaigns to the Communist Party are not mere vote- catching affairs but are a means of mobiliznng the workers for the po- litical and economic demands of the Communist Party, The tendency to center the attention of the workers purely on their economic needs serves the interests of the betray- ers of the workingclass. These May Day demonstrations must serve as a means of rallying large num- bers to support the program of the party. the State. at the movie houses after being shown one day? Why were the three Tammany judges afraid to shew them 'n court? Why did Tam- many-Whalen, assistant attorney Unger protest against their being exhibited? Students in universities may see them—it gives them insight into “crowd behavior.” But when five men are to be railroaded to jail for their work for the working class, when tens of millions of workers | throughout the country might see the films at the movies and witness the police as they are—not the polite, kindly bluecoat that the child imagines, but the vicious cossack out to crush the workers—then the film cannot be shown, Prof. Kulp is right. These films which show the splendid demonstra. tions of soiidarity of the workers— employed and unemployed, Negro and white, men, women and chil- dren—are “splendid propaganda for the Communist Party.” For that reason the bosses, their government and police have decided that they shall not be shown. The workers will learn a lesson \it serves as an instrument of re-! gram of the Communist Party. By. States: “This slogan (for a’ Labor| the Party must be gotten to sup- i {speed and at starvation wages. The |company-unionizing the trade unions! the Communist Party. | future holds in store added misery |and betraying the workers to th» bosses and to the: parties of the bosses. The Socialist Party and their Muste group satellites have dropped every pretense of being a party of the workingelass. The ren- egades to the Communi Party, Lovestone and Cannon, will howl and rave that the party has dropped that famous slogan, the “Labor Party.” To them we can answer that they will fume for the Labor Party stogan, because in this period | MAY DAY AND COMING ELECTIONS | action. The draft thesis to the Sev- enth Convention is correct when it Party—JP) no longer supplies the base for the organization of revolu- tionary political action of the work- They must be the beginning | ing masses as the most immediate | 1st demonstration must be the be- of the state-wide election campaign | objectives of our party. Any labor! ginning of mobilizing large delega- that will bring the election cam-' party crystallization at this moment tions to the State nomination con- paign of the Communist Party into | could only have the A.F.L. unions,| vention to be held in Schenectady, | (7,000,000 unemployed in the coun-|every city and farming section o” the Socialist Party and other social May 24th and 25th, and for intensive The Hoovers, Roosevelts, | reformist organizations as a base or | election campaign activities into the Lehmans and Jimmie Walkers are! would have only those organizations | shops with the program of the Com- | both the unemployed and employed! in the employ of Wall Street and already in sympathy with the Com-/ munist Party. This will be our best The employed workers | carry out their ordets. The Fascist! munist Party.” To adopt the slogan answer to the bosses and the rene- jare being driven at a neck-breaking | A.F.L. has followed a policy of jin this period means liquidation of | gades. “Take Note tor Mav Day”, Writes I. Amter trom Prison ‘Then why were the films cancelled | from this fact. But they must learn one other—just as the theatre is centrolled by the bosses, as the movie kings are part of the same class, the: workers will have to train ‘and equip their own camera me, Then when pictures of strikes and demonstrations are taken they will NEEDLE WORKERS Active Members Plan May Day Strike and Demonstration At Lyceum An active members meeting of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union will take place tonight right after work in Manhattan Ly- ceum, to make final preparations for mass mobilization and general strike of all needle workers May First. Thousands of leaflets of the union calling the strike and urging workers to come to Rutgers Square, at noon and demonstrate have been distributed, in company union shops as well as elsewhere. The union members will go through the gar- ment center May Day morning to call all owt on strike, The united | front must be one from below jnew significance on May Day Young Workers Fighti ng Back in Crisis and Unemployment By JOHN HARVEY ! May Day, 1930, the International | fighting day of the workers against imperialist war, the growing mass unemployment, wage-cuts, speed-up and the whole. bankruptcy of the) capitalist system which becomes so | apparent with the present deepening of the economic crisis, assumes a} for the young! American workers. Thousands of young workers | throughout the United States are) walking the streets with no hope of | finding a job. Those young workers who still hold on to their jobs feel | in a very real way the effects of) the big layoffs and wage-cuts that are taking place in every shop to- day. Everywhere the young work- ers are being given additional work | and speed-up as other workers are} laid off all around them. Every-} where these young workers are be-| ing asked to play the game of the. boss in their wage-cutting drive | by doing the work of older workers for lower wages. Have to Fight their loyalty to the working class and the workers’ struggle. Barrack Demonstrations. May Day, 1930, must be marked by soldiers and sailors demonstrat- ing in their barracks and on their ships against the tyranny of their officers, against their political op- pression and rotten conditions—for all the aims of the struggling workers! Soldiers and sailors must answer the appeal of the Young Communist League not to be mis- used against their demonstrating fellow workers on May 1st by fra- ternizing with the struggling work- ers and themselves joining the May Day demonstrations. May Day, 1930, must be marked by greater organization of all the working class forces in the army for the struggle against capitalist militar- ism and war, and in preparation for turning the next war of the bosses into a civil war of the work- ing class against the boss class. The sharp attacks of the boss class with all the forces at its dis- posal upon the revolutionary organ- But these young workers who are | izations of the workers still con- among the great mass of the work-| already working at top speed and! tinues, The brutal attacks upon the ingelass to win them for the pro- | for lowest wages can least of all demonstrating workers on March 6 gram of the party. If this mea ‘isolation, then we ask our class en- | § emies to explain the Katovis De onstration March Gth and the tre mendous agitation that is going on, for May Ist. We must appeal to all shops, trade unions and workers to support the pa~'. of the wor! —the Communist Party. We mu go down in every shop with the pr }every worker who has followed the |Party in the various campaigns of | port the political program of the } Betty: The election campaign is al- ready now in full swing. The May be shown. The workers will learn from them; their children will learn from them—and this exact evidence of the activities of all enemies of the working class will help to make revolutionists and Communists out of ever more American workers. Take note for May Day! SHOWS UP BROUN The “Jobs” Just Vanish Heywood Broun’s “solution” for j unemployment is to “create addi- jtional jobs till June.” What these “additional jobs” look like, was re- vealed to the Daily Worker by a young worker who tried them out. Heywood Broun sent some Yipsels to an open-air mecting of the Young Communist League, to persuade the young workers in the audience to try out his “remedy” for unemploy- ment. 4 young worker went up and was promised a $20 a week job. He had to carry clothes, But when it came to pay, he got $2 a day. After a few days this job was taken away from him, and probably “new- stand the furthor incvease in the peed of work and wage-cuts at the present time. who recefved such low wages in the | past can Jeas, of all stand the ef- fects nemployn vhen they lose their jobs, Such conditions make the young workers poor tools, indeed, for the bosses and among | the first to join the struggles of the! workers against this new boss’ at tack—among the best fighters in these struggles of the workers against wage cuts, unemployment and imperialist war. The young Negro workers who feel even more sharply. these affects than other young workers, are in the fore- front of this fight. May Day, 1930, which sees such | rotten conditions for the young work- ers, must also see a greater mobil- ization than ever before of the young workers who turned out 200,- 000 strong on March 6th. The Young Communist League appeals directly to the young workers in the shop to join the political strikes in their shops on May 1st and to come down directly from their shops with the other workers to the May 1st demonstrations. This must be the answer of the young workers to the present rotten conditions under which they slave in the factories, mills and mines today. The same young workers who are being speeded up ar pri of the war preparations in the shons today are also being trained as cannon-fodder to be used on the battle fields of the bosses in the next world slaugh- ter. The bosses use unemployment young workers to force them into the bosses’ army and navy. Here the very same bosses who kicked the young workers out of a job and cut their wages, expect them to do the dirty work of the bosses against their fellow workers at home and abroad. The answer of the “Workers in Uniform” must be for hundreds of additional sol- diers and sailors to follow the ex- ample of John Porter in plelging worker. He himself was sent to the lawyer’s office to get a job as an office boy, But nobody there knew anything about a job. Back at Broun’s he was told they would find something for him. However, ly created” for some other misled no job has been “created” for him so far. and the rotten conditions of the; will be followed by sharper and | more clever attacks on May Ist, The young workers | with a greater mobilization of fas- cist and social fascist agents of the bosses, The answer of the work- ers to all attempts at intimidation on March 6th was the preparation of bigger demonstrations on May 1st, and the organization of Work- ers Defense Corps to protect these demonstrations and fight back afainst police brutality and all other forms of attempted terrorism of the workers. The Young Com- munist League appeals to the fight- ing spirit of the young workers, the| especially the members of the sport organizations, and calls on the young workers to be at the head to protect the demonstrations. The young workers must show them- selves the backbone of workers de- fense corps and among the most ae- tive fighters for the rights of the workers to the streets—against all attempted terrorism by the bosses. “SOCIALISTS” END CITY SOCIAL FASCIST MEET That the only thing left of so- cialism in the socialist party is its name—socialist in name, but social- fascist in class essence—was prac- tically admitted yesterday at the spring convention of the New York City socialists. Judging by capitalist press re- ports, the “peace”-loving socialists |east all discretion to the winds for |a time and got in a little taste of the forbidden fruit of violence themselves. The “violence” was purely in words, of course. A “sharp debate” was waged be- tween the “conservative element” and the “young bloods” hankering for more “militant” words to fool \the masses more effectively. OLD CLIQUE STILL RUNS S. P. 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