The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1933, Page 12

——— OOO Carry torward the Revolutionary Traditions of May First! = ity “i ! | —_—— —————. Lo “S | 3 Sy a ( o Aussia 1917, “Att power to the Soviets! ont YS : as AS RA OR ae AR | Sh Oe RES. Site Sim Zi rer COA (Gh © \NNITED FRONT. AGAINST FASCISM WAR. | + : Rane b EEA rik ne Mnrers of Union Square, ny. :1890 g. Westernr Fennsylvanca Revolutionary Traditions of American Labor to the militancy of the American workers. Not only have the work- By A, TRACHTENBERG. The American labor movement is rich in revolutionary traditions upon which the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League can draw in their work of organizing the American working class for revolu- tionary action. ‘The great labor ers been ready to initiate struggles or accept provocations of the bosses, but when out on strike, they have stayed out long and fought bitterly against the combined forces of boss- es ard the minions of the State. struggles which dot the history of, . A 'abor movement which can look the United States. bear testimony bec! to the general strike move- \ \ \ ments of 1877 and 1886, to Home- also look forward to still greater stead (1892), to the A. R. U. Strike | struggles in the future. With the (1894), to Lawrence (1912), to the | prevailing objective conditions—con- Steel Strike (1919), to Seattle (1919), to the many strikes in the coal, railroad, clothing and other indus- tries, to the great struggles in Colo- rado, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, the Mesaba Range and, more re- stantly deepening economic crisis, growing permanent unemployment, interisified exploitation through speed-up methods, acceleration of imperialist rivalries: leading to an- other world war, the American labor cently, to Gastonia and Harlan, can 'movement, freed of its misleaders, * ee rebes 925 938 a, 395 will give an account of itself. The massacre by Ford police of four De- troit auto. workers at an unemployed demonstration before his plant, the murder‘of fighting Negro jobless in Chicago and Cleveland, the Hunger Marches and developing strike strug- | gles are evidences of the sharpening | Class struggle and the militancy of the workers Z