The ECOMMUNIST All Power to the Workers!
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA Vol. II. No.
APRIL 25, 1920 PRICE CENTS HAIL TO THE SOVIETS!
May Day Proclamation by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America.
Workers of America!
ploiters, to whom you have in the FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL past given your support?
CONDITIONS ARE FORECASTING Eighteen months have passed since Eighteen months have gone since THAT BY FALL THE UNITED the imperialist nations of the world your masters won their victory for STATES WILL BE IN THE GRIP signed the armistice agreement which democracy and justice. Look OF PANIC WHICH WILL BRING was to bring to an end the slaughter abroad in the world and witness their INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION, UNof millions of workingmen upon the achievement!
EMPLOYMENT FOR MILLIONS, battlefields of Europe.
The war is at an end, but war still WITH THE CONSEQUENT SUF You were told that this war was goes on. On two continents, on many FERING AND MISERY.
a war of democracy against autocra battlefields, men are fighting. The This is the reality of the better cy. You were told that out of the threat of war and yet more war world with which the capitalists and bloody struggle would come a better hangs over the people of almost every their tools deluded you into fighting world for you. You were urged to country of Europe and America. their battles. In place of a better give your labor without stint, to sacImperialistic ambition and greed world economic breakdown and rifice your lives without question, the desire to secure new economic wide spread misery and suffering. In so that the cause of right and resources for exploitation, which is place of democracy and justice justice might triumph.
the characteristic of every capitalist the brutal suppression of the For a year and half the represent nation are creating new jealousies workers as in the steel strike and the atives of the imperialists have been in and conflicts and continually threat miners strike.
control of the affairs of the world, en to again precipitate the people of There is only one way in which the wielding power such as few men these countries into the abyss of uni workers can save themselves from have held in the history of mankind. yersal slaughter.
the consequences of the breakdown Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau The economic system of Europe is of the present economic system. Capand their lesser satellites, have re in a state of collapse. The strivings italism has played its part in the shaped the word in harmony with of the statesmen at Paris have history of mankind. It is no longer justice.
failed to put this machinery in order. workable. It must be uprooted and What has been the result of their The efforts of the statesmen have destroyed, and a new system of inlabor, workers of America? What proven fruitless in the face of the dustry built in its place. This is the have the imperialist masters of the contradictions of capitalist production historic task of the working class.
world achieved for you and for the which are destroying the system. All The work of destroying interworkers of the world?
over Europe the workers are starving national capitalism has already begun because the machinery of capitalist through the splendid achievements Have the glowing promises through production cannot be set in motion of the workers of Russia. Consider which they tricked you into supportagain.
Russia and the Communists who ing their imperialist war been kept? Financially the entire structure of control the Soviet Government, and Have they rebuilt the world upon the the capitalist system faces collapse. contrast it to the capitalist nations new foundation through which, they Money is becoming valueless in many and their statesmen!
told you, the useless slaughter of the countries of Europe, because of the The Soviet Government was estabflower of the youth of the nations inflation during the war, and in the lished in Russia after the old regime would be ended? Have they changed United States prices mount ever had brought about the complete colthe conditions under which you gain higher. The government has issued lapse of the economic system in that livelihood, broken the strangling grip paper money and other forms of country. In Russia the chaos existed of the exploiters upon your throat and obligation, and destroyed the wealth toward which the capitalist system is made your lot more bearable?
these represent, and consequently tending everywhere. While in the capMAY DAY. Labor International the value of money has depreciated. italist nations things are going from The financiers of the world see their Holiday is approaching. On May bad to worse, the Communists of Day the revolutionary workers of the danger, but yet they can find no re Russia are reconstructing the social world will count their gains and medy. Capitalism destroys itself. and industrial system of that country.
losses; they will renew their courage WORKERS OF AMERICA, YOU Attacked by the capitalist imperial.
and determination by recounting their HAVE NOT THUS FAR FELT ists of the world, they organized the victories, and pay tribute to those HUNGER, MISERY AND SUFFER Red Army, which has been victorious that have fallen as martyrs to their ING TO THE EXTENT OF YOUR on every front. While fighting the BROTHERS IN EUROPE. BUT AL battle against counter revolution, and cause.
READY YOUR MASTERS ARE lemmed in on all sides by the blockDare you, workers of America, face WARNING YOU. THE BLACK ade of the Allies, they have still been the facts of the promises and per CLOUDS ARE ON THE HORIZON able to achieve wonders in the work formances of your masters, the ex AND THE MEN WHO KNOW THE (Continued on page 4)