The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1933, Page 5

IN TWO SECTIONS Section II (Section of the Communist Internatiqgal) | Party US.A. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, “DAY, APRIL . 1933 “May First Manifesto of Communist Party Against the Roosevelt Hunger and War Drive! For Unemployment Insurance and Social Insurance! Against Fascism; for Solidarity With German Proiet-riat; for the Unity of All Toilers! Against Imperialist War; for Defease of the Soviet Union; for Defense of the Chinese Peon'c' For the Overthrow of Capitalism! For a Revolutionary Workers and Farmers Government! For the Proletarian Revolution; for a Socialist Society! May First, day of international , working class solidarity, day of uni- | ted struggle against capitalist ex- | ploitation and war, finds capitalism } broken down and in a state of de- cay. Boasted mass production of capi- talist industries has broken down. | Factories and plants are producing | less every month; agricultural out- | put is not only diminishing but | large quantities ‘of ready food-stuffs | are being destroyed, while the farm- | ers ate told to produce less, Fin- | ance and banking are going through | the severest crisis in history. Trade | and: commerce, nationally and in- ternationally, are half destroyed. | All the economic machinery of cap- | italism is disorganized, dilapidated, | approaching ruin. In the United States, this richest country in the world, the breakdown of production, exchange, credit and currency is more pronounced than in any other country. The boasted strength of American capitalism, said to be ex- empt from the evils and inherent contradictions of capitalism, has} proven to be but a miserable sham. Fascist Terror Against the Workers. Boasted capitalist political democ- racy is being more and more re- vealed as the system of carrying out the wishes and the orders of the ruling propertied classes as against | the toiling masses. Capitalism which in its heydey resorted to the sham of democracy to maintain the illusion of self-government and thus prevent the masses from realizing the domination of big capital, is more and more revealing itself as brute force. Capitalism is becom- ing openly terroristic. Capitalism grasps the big club of fascism not only in Germany or in Poland, but growing symptoms of fascism are evident in the United States where beating up of strikers, clubbing of workers’ demonstrations, jailing of militant workers and farmers, lynching of Negroes and deportation of foreign born workers is used with increasing ferocity as a means of suppressing the militancy of the toilers. The Roosevelt administra- tion is equipping the chief executive with ‘dictatorial powers te deal quickly and decisively with the masses in the interest of Wall St. The ‘government of the United States is rapidly approaching the fascist type. The Anti-Working Class Program of Roosevelt. What is Wall Street, what is its fafthful servant, the advocate of the “new deal,” Roosevelt, doing to re- Heve the terrible sufferings of the people? They have not introduced any un- employment insurance te secure every worker a minimum of sub- sistence at the expense of the capi- . talists and the government, They have granted no direct fed- eral cash relief for the unemployed. They have advanced no cash relief for the farmers, | | | --- A WORLD TO GAIN! By Bu rek masses by eutting the value of the dollar through the method of infla- tion, f They have slashed the wages of governmental employees. They have slashed the compen- sation of the veterans—those who were maimed and crippled in the last World War. They refuse to give the long-promised bonus to th veterans. : They are planning te legalize the stagger-system of employment ‘which means making the workers share the little available work with their fellow-workers and thus re- duce the earnings of ail. They are planning “wage boards” to determine the bottom wages for every industry and locality, not ac- cording to the needs of the workers, but according to the needs of the exploiters. They have allowed the courts of Alabama to convict Haywood Pat- terson, one of the 9 Scottsboro boys, to the electric chair to satisfy the southern rulers in their bloody de- sire to maintain the national op- pression of the Negro people. The Revolutionary Road for the Masses. May Day, day of international working class solidarity, finds the Instead they have organized | working class of every capitalist forced labor camps where they drill| country, finds the working class of fll 2 S a ; | tion of the available funds to feed the hungry, it squeezes the life- blood out of the masses to produce ; more ammunition, to organize big- ger armies for the coming world slaughter. but their chains, Capitalism has outlived itself. Capitalism has to be replaced by Socialism where there is no private property on either lands or mines, or factories or rail- roads, where there is not exploita- tion of man by man, where every- body shares the fruit of collective labor, where classes have been abol- ished and life has been lifted to great heights. Capitalism must be replaced by the system of work for common use and not for profit. Cap- italism has developed vast possibili- ties of production which cannot be used under the system of private property, which, however, under the system of Socialism, can be devel- oped tremendously so as to assure everybody a real human living. The Soviet Union, now in the 16th year of its existence, is the only bright spot in the world-picture of today. While the capitalist world is sinking deeper into the morass of deterioration, the Soviet State, hav- ing abolished unemployment, is ris- The workers have nothing to lose | to live and to progress * * * and that is to deal the capitalist state @ death blow. ist Attack. are beginning to realize this basic truth more and more. The workers vancing against capitalism in ever greater forces. Last year has wit- nissed an increasing number of against wage cuts and for better conditions. The automobile workers for the first time in the history of this country actually succeeded in tying up, the industry through a powerful strike movement. The needle workers, particularly the fur- riers, have made a strong stand against their bosses and have se- | cured better wages and union con- trol over many shops. The workers of many other trades have struck against wage-cuts. The farmers not only organized a broad strike move- ment, but came into repeated clashes with the armed forces of the State. The veterans marched on Washington in a great militant body that threw the entire Federal gov- ernment into confusion. The mili- hunger marches in fight for relief and unemployment insurance. The sharecroppers of the South, most of them Negroes, have organized a itancy of the farming fight against the lynchers and for full equality for the Negroes, inclu- ding self-determination in the Black Belt ~ o 3 ) can working es The toiling masses of America are becoming ever more restless and they are organizing to fight. This is nothing wi 1al for the Ameri- SS whose history is the history of great battles a ainst the exploiters and whose ruggles gave rise even to the First of May, later adopted as an international day of working class solidarity for Struggle against capitalism, Unite for Unemployment and Social Instrance Unempioyment insurance is the great necd of the day.. Millions are Capitalism has thrown ause the bosses cannot jent profits. The bosses alli the wealth, kers are doomed to That must not be. If there are billions to be had for the bankers and other billions for war purposes, then there must be enough funds to pay every unemployed man, have te poc} whereas the starvation. | Woman and young worker a defi- nite wage every weck at the ex- pense of the canitalisis and the federal government. Unite for ‘Increased Wages and Relief to Meet Higher Prices The struggle against wage-cuts , and for the increase in wages in | order to meet the inflation prices, | is another pressing need for which | Growing Struggles Against Capital- The workers of the United States | | of the United States have been ad- | ; The with Wall Street, is plotting for new struggles on various fronts. The) wars A : - miners repeatedly went on strike| vor” “Specially against the Soviet the workers must become organized | through this May Day demonstra- | tion. The capitalists are mobilizing to cut the value of the dollar, i.e., to pay the workers in depreciated | Money which will buy fewer goods. The workers must resist by de- manding higher wages, more relief, wherever such relief is being paid. They must demand that all war funds be used for immediate relief and unemployment insurance. Unite in the Struggle Against Imperialist War May Day must be a day of strug- gle against war and against war preparations. The government is recruiting young workers to drill them for the future war while mak- ing them work at starvation wages. government, in connivance Union. The May Day demonstration must raise a mighty protest against these war plans. We will resist all capitalist wars; we will resist the transportation of ammunition for the purposes of war butchery, Socialist Leaders Prevent Unity For these struggles the workers must unite. We know that there are mighty obstacles in the way of their unity—in the first place the activities of the leaders of the Am- erican Federation of Labor and the leaders of the Socialist Party. It is these leaders who split the ranks of the working-class movement in 1914 when they joined the camps of their respective governments in the World War instead of fighting the capitalists in every country. It is these leaders who organized the in- tervention in the Soviet Union, I is these leaders, who, being at th head of the German government crushd the revolution of 1918-19 and subsequently fought against the re- volutionary labor movement while protecting the counter-revolution- ary forces and thus paving the way for fascism. It is these leaders who do not offer any resistance to the Hitler fascism fn Germany even at the present moment, abjectly bow- ing before the bloody dictatorship, and telling the workers that there — (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO), 13 er as