FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939 SOCIALIST APPEAL Down Your Tools on May Day in Protest Demonstration Against The Slaughter Into Which the Bosses Are Preparing to Send You In the Sacrifices of the owners complain toate they cannot operate profit May Day, 1919 Eight Men May Day Lesson In Workings Tradition Was Born Of Boss Democracy Every Worker Must Master the Teachings of Marx and Engels at (Con inued from Page 1)
is the enemy, and we must fight the enemy here.
Already we have found out in this country in New ably. Very well! If they can run them, Ict someone York, Los Angeles, and a dozen lesser cities what the else who can. Open them up, with the aid of government workers of Germany and Italy too late discovered. that funds, and operate them under the control of the workers! only the workers by their own direct action will fight the JOBS AT TRADE UNION WAGES FOR fascists. The government and the police will not fight ALL UNEMPLOYED! With 13, 000, 000 out of work, them; on the contrary, the police protect the fascists and the government replies by slashing the already pitifully fight against the anti fascist workers who wish to protest small WPA rolls. Let the labor movement answer with the meetings and actions of the fascists.
the demand for jobs for all! Every man has the right to BUILD WORKERS DEFENSE GUARDS! Organa job at decent wages. If private industry won provide ized anti fascist defense guards, built by the workers them By CHRIS ANDREWS anarchists and syndicalist, par By STANLEY LAUREN unarmed, fought back fearlessly When the four bloody years of ticularly in the rising industrial them, then we must force the government to do so. selves, are the only weapon which can defend the workers The morning of May Day 1919 to defend their comrades, saved the American Civil War ended. city of Chicago. TWENTY BILLION DOLLAR PUBLIC saw the population of Cleveland the streets of Cleveland from bethe industrial and financial capi. Strikes and labor actions here WORKS PROGRAM! There is plenty of money when gangs.
and their unions and parties from the vigilante and fascist unusually tense. The war had end ing further bathed in blood.
talists of the North were in com were unusually violent. The Chi ed only a few months before. Sol SOCIALISTE MARCH it comes to armaments or bailing out bankrupt corporaplete control of the United States. cago police were notorious for diers from the trenches had just INTO SQUARE During the absence of the South their brutality, and against them tions. There is plenty more in the coffers of the sixty INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY OF LABOR come home. The In the meantime, the square government crn Senators and Representatives it had been necessary for the families. Let it be used for a gigantic program of public May Day is the occasion when every serious worker huge drive for a Victory Loan was being filled with workers who from the Ilalls of Congress during workers to organize workinghad been going on for some time. were awaiting the rally. At 12:30 the Civil War and the period of mens defense guards to protect works, featuring low rent housing for workers, for the should remember his indissoluble ties with his fellowand Cleveland had only raised a small contingent of 200 led by Reconstruction, the Northern their meetings and particularly third of the nation which now lives under conditions not workers in every other nation, and should pledge himself 31, 000, 000 of the 81, 500, 000 quo Ruthenberg marched into the bourgeoisie passed all the legislatheir democratic right vote at fit for human beings.
to struggle side by side with the workers everywhere ta set for the city with only eight square. They were the only sec.
tion necessary make legal the polls for working class candi more days left to complete the tion of the parade that was able their dominance and a feverth dates. Socialist who was elected THIRTY DOLLAR WEEKLY OLD AGE AND against the common enemy: against imperialism and the fund raising job. Socialist anti to hold their ranks together derush of development and exploita as Alderman was illegally kept DISABILITY PENSIONS! The aged, who have given whole vile system of exploitation and tyranny throughout war agitation had made the work apite the attack of the soldiers and tion followed. As the West was from his office by the Democratic the best of their lives to the profit makers, the injured and er wiser and the bankers were police.
the world.
thrown open to settlement and City Council; the incident was having a difficult time squeezing Ruthenberg marched his group emigration, the most valuable re typical of class relations sick, have a right to something better than diseased meat Together, the workers of the entire world will resolve the needed cash out of labor through the square, and mounted sources of the nation were given when that first May Day dawn and discarded bread crusts. Jobs for all who can work that they will not permit human civilization to be destroyed pockets. And on top of all this the speakers platform. He was to the capitalist class by the Conecl, approximately 350, 000 workers the Socialist May Day parade was danked on both sides by a numgress they controlled, amid snenes llung themselves into the strike and pensions for those who cannot!
in the new gangster war. They will transform that war ber of war veterans in uniform of outrageous and open graft. action, and of these, 150, 000 won THE STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCISM for blood and profit into a war of the oppressed of all expected to be the largest the who carried red flags. These sol.
nations against their oppressors. Out of the present dark By 10 o clock in the morning The rapid industrial develop their demand immediately. The diers had learned why they went ment that followed with alter remainder continued on strike The last six months have seen the rapid rise of pre ness, international labor will build a new, classless society to war, and they demonstrated mating prosperity and severe industrial activity was tied up fascist and fascist movements within the United States. of peace, security, and freedom.
unionists had already mobilizet. heir hatred for the capitalist sysat their local headquarters. They tem.
crisen, was accompanied by milithroughout the nation in New York, Philadelphia. Chicago, LouThe fascists who would throw us into concentration camps, tant and violent fights of the That new world is within our grasp! li we have the formed their ranks and proceeded POLICE CLUBS working masses. Industrial and inville, St. Louis, Milwaukee. Bal. smash the organizations of labor, fasten on this country courage and the will, we shall gain it!
to parade towards the Publi BUAT WORKERS agrtcultural, to defend themselves timore and many smaller cities the totalitarian rule of the rubber hose, do not live in FOR THE TRIUMPH OF LABOR IN THE VICSquare in downtown Clevelane As soon as Rathenberg and the where a monster mass meeting ugalust exploitation. Due to their and towns.
adical soldiers mounted the platsporadic and unorganized charac In Chicago 45, 000 won their de Berlin or Rome or Tokyo but right here at home. Ilere TORIOUS WORLD SOCIALIST REVOLUTION! was to start at noon.
form they were attacked by the ter they were consistently defeat. mand at once 10, 000 others RUTHENBERG reactionary hoodlums. The Ameried. Particularly bloody upheavals struck and several days later 80, LEADE PARADE can Legionaires and the police followed the depression of 1873. 000 were out. Excited meetings up all their privileges of refusing Leading the parade was Estarted to wade into the crowd general strike broke out among and parades were held speeches Jurors who were hostile, the jury Ruthenberg, at that time the so and beat their clubs over the the railroad workers, resisting were made in Bohemian Polish, as finally composed had on it a cialist candidate for Mayor of heads of workingmen. Mounted wage cuts. Several hundreds of German, and English. The anarCleveland, editor of the Ohto so police rode their horses through railway men were killed in con chists were active, they had some arve of one of the police casu cialist, and destined to become the crowds and managed to disflicts with the army troops wide 000 members in the city, and inIt was proved that the Judge one of the first leaders of the perse the meeting. Hundreds spread rioting terrified the Amer. Muenced the majority of the agent stated am managing this Communist Party of the United were seriously injured.
ican bourgeoisie who had so restrikers, giving the demonstra case, and know what am about States. Ruthenberg had just fin Two workers were found dead.
cently watched with fear and hate Lions a bold and courageous class These fellows are going to be The working class may well ment of English economic ished serving a year in jail for They were Joseph Ivany and Sam the death struggles of the Paris character. frightening certain sochanged as certain as death.
be proud of the fact that it thought and the labor move his anti war activity, Pearlman who were shot and killCotomune.
tions of the businessmen into the THE SENTENCED brought into its ranks two such ment, and the traditions of the by policemen as they tried to As the parade got under way In general, the railwaymen early concessions.
SPEAK TO THN WORLD their hoodlums of the American Leg defend themselves from hoodlum were defeated. Nevertheless, the MERTING PROTESTS The capitalist press howlod for nighters as the founders of the disposalMarx and Engels ion, under the direction of local attacks. Ruthenberg and 133 other working class continued its battheir lives. The word Bolshevik scientific socialist movement. gave the working class its first business men, began to attack Socialist workers were arrested by POLICE ATTACK tle, stamping on the pages of did not exist. They called them Karl Marx and Frederick En really scientific analysis of the marchers who cated crippled WOUNDED MEN red flags police.
American history the mark of the On May 3, scals and strikers Communards after the men and gels.
capitalist system of society The reactionaries class struggle and the class char broke into list fighting at the Mc women of the Paris Commune, When these two magnificent and put forth the principles war victims to lead the attack or IN COURT acter of our society.
Cormick Reaper plant, where and denounced them as foreigners. intellects who, though German and tactics by means of which the Socialists, with the object of Almost every other man arthere was three months old Governor Altgeld of Illinois, in by birth were internationalists labor, the only remaining con winning public sentiment to their aigned, the Cleveland Press reRIGHT HOURS walkout and the police used the later investigation when the to the marrow of their bones. sistently progressive class side. These victims why ported. appeared with a bandaged MAJOR DEMAND opportunity to attack the workers martyrs were dead, had this to came into the labor movement, will smash the fetters of One of the workers demands with their guns. Four strikers say of the trial. It is further they found it based upon either capitalist class rule and, by esrealize that they gave up thell the result of blows from police was the eight hour day. At the were killed, numerous others se shown that much of the evidence a utopian foundation or a hand tablishing the classless social limbs raise a new batch of mil maces or of clubs in the hands of present time the greater part of verely wounded given at the trial was a pure fab to mouth existence.
ist society. free humankind it lionaires who were thousands o loyalist crowds. The soldiers this country 40 to 50 million fiery pamphlet calling the rication that some of the prom With the treasures of Ger sell.
miles away from the trenches were the loyalist crowds reworkers have not yet achieved workers to Revenge! Working inent police officials. terror man philosophy, the develop Their work, produced any this.
BUSINESS OPPICES ferred to by the Press.
men. to Arus. was distributed Ized ignorant men by throwing where from sixty to ninety GREET ATTACK That night the American Leg.
Back in the 1830 when the throughout the city and a pro them into prison and threatening working day was fourteen. Afteen test meeting called for the next them with torture if they refused years ago, has a freshness and Trouble started simultaneously ion, not satisfied with breaking hours and up the Arst hour night in Haymarket Square. Dur to swear to anything destred.
up the parade. made raids on Sosignificance which has enabled on each route as the paraders en proposal was called preposter lalist Party headquarters in vari.
tered the downtown section. Ev.
ing the next day the police kepi Seven were sentenced to be it to remain the foundation of ous. Yet its very audacity and attacking with great brutality al ery attack was greeted with show ous parts the city. The raid on hanged: Noebe to 15 years. The the international revolutionary what it meant for them in ternis gatherings of workers ers of confetti from the windows the central headquarters was the farewell speeches of these work movement down to the presof the business offices. Everything most vicious. Every window, evof a fuller, richer life. rallied the At the meeting August Spie. ingclass leaders lasted days, and ent day. Their analyses of conFREDERICK ENGELS pointed to a well planned attack ery stick of furniture, was smashworkers around it. Agitation con and cther leaders of the strikers were addressed beyond the court.
tinued throughout the country temporary soveel violently by class, the theories of Marxism One crippled war veteran wheed. More than a ball a ton of Grand Eight Hour Leagues existed was no disorder: oncoming rain world.
addressed the gathering. There room to the workers of the whole was seated in a wheelchair in books was destroyed and thrown others, submitted to in the middle years of the cenfront of the Olmstead Hotel in into the streets. The Ohio Socialist pul short the proceedings and the Said Spies, Now, these are my downtown Cleveland started one press was wrecked. Two hundred tury: finally on Oct. 1884, a Mayor of Chicago, who had at ideas. They constitute a part of been confirmed others have by argument. ukuse or terror group of trade unions (that later tended the meeting. went home myself. cannot divest myself of ism. It is the natural product of the most bloody incidents o: Socialists were injured defending again in all their essentials. In of the class struggle. It is the the day. He was James Stevens their headquarters.
became the American Federation shortly before it was to close them, nor would if could. And Marxism, the proletariat has sharpest weapon of the revolu who was being used all over the CAPITALIST COURT of Labor) passed resolution at stopping in at the nearby police if you think that you can crush an invincible and unassailable ionary labor movement.
Chicago declaring that after May precinct to report that there was out these ideas that are gaining city by the bankers to raise money MAILA POLICE doctrine.
1, 1886 eight hours shall constiMaster Marxism! Study it for the Victory Loun. Stevens de At the trials of those arrested, no danger of violence. few min. ground more and more every day.
tule a legal day labor. The 2utes after he left the station. If you think you can crush them World reaction has rightly thoroughly, and apply its meth scribed his own provocation very held the following day, the police years intervening were to be the police lieutenant led detach by sending us to the gallows.
seen in Marxism its arch ene my. That often buried theory o ods and principles in the daily well. He said: and soldiers were exonerated and struggle against the employers The first thing saw was the hailed a heres. Fifty five workperiod of preparation for the ment of 180 police to smash the say, if death is the penalty for clash: on that arst May Day, the rest of the meeting. As they came proclaiming the truth, then will the working class continues to and reaction! That is the duty red flags. wheeled my chair inters were sentenced to 30 days in irk and terrify the ruling class workers were to strike for their to the street as the head of the lall. The others were given son crowd to attack it, order proudly and efiantly of the labor movement. If it the most demand and continue until it was ing it to disperse, a bomb was ly price! Call your hangman!
es. Fascism is sworn to destroy fulfills it, it will have at its column passed, and yelled Get tences almost as harsh. But it was it root and branch.
command an instrument, tem those red flags. Some of the 1scovered that most of the pris.
won.
thrown. 73 policemen were in All the prisoners showed the The working class was ready Jured: ultimately died. The posame high courage and the same But so long as the capitalist pered by the genius of Marx marchers laughed and jeered at oners were foreign born. The fedand willing for the fight. As al lice fired back indiscriminately contempt for the class which held system of exploitation remains, and deKARL MARX and with it the proletarian its triumn which will assure mo. But my comrades in uniforneral government was asked ways in time of social upheaval, and a scene of terror and slaugh them in its power.
wanie running when yelled Gel port these Bolsheviks.
they poured into organizations ter followed, as the unarmed citi em boys.
The bankers had gained their The sentences of were com1. EGIONAIRES that they vagitely felt represented rens ran.
objective. The necessary hysteria muted to te imprisonment BEGIN ATTACK the interests of labor. As the small Greetings to the SOCIALIST APPEAL on May Day!
for a successful Victory Loan was No one knows to this day who Twenty one year old Linge took Immediately the was not available to most threw the bomb there is a large his own life. Sples, Engel, Parreactionary being worked up quite success.
On to the DAILY APPEAL!
Legionaires went of them, they joined the Knights body of evidence pointing to sons, and Fischer went to the into action fully. The next day the following They rushed the line of march call for the purchase of Victory of Labor, an amorphous, conserva police provocateur who fled Chi scaffold shouting defiance.
LEON DICKMAN TESS SAVIN tive organization, by the tens of cago. The truth will not be known The strike was broken. But the with clubs in their hands and Loan bonds read thousande, terrifying the conserv. until the workers themselves opon workers remembered and still reROSE FABEN started beating down workers. It means a hair trigger sprint ative leadership which considered the closed archives of the capital member the men of Haymarket.
They were joined by the police from now on. victory button is ALBERT GATES ARNE SWABECK who were just as vigilant at slus your only protection now. This the eight hour demand revolu ist class. But to any worker wheThe boss class strangled its vic.
tionary.
has ever been in a strike, the relims in spite of the protests of sing the workers. Hundreds of meant that a worker who did not PAUL HERRICK SAM RICHTER In July 1885 the Knights of cital of the simple facts of the the workers. Then, years later, it MICHAEL KABNO LYDIA BEIDEL EDWARD WARD Socialists were felled by the blows, wear a button indicating that he labor had 104, 066 members. As case shows clearly a typical police tried to cover over the crime by the date of the May strike drew maneuver to provoke violence in releasing the three survivors REVA CRAINE CLAIRE ROBINSON and down the street, clearing it of would be the object of future atnear, the workers gathered their order to frame the strike leaders when Governor Altgeld investipeople and breaking up the par. tacks. MICHAELS MAX WEINRIB ade. Only the courage of the So SUPPRESSION OF strength, and the membership and smash the strike.
gation proved that the trial was a cialist workingmen, who though CIVIL. LIBERTIES swelled to over 100, 000. The work crs were ready.
frame up. But nothing has been THESE PELLOWS ARN Within a few days the city forgotten.
But the beaurocrats were not. GOING TO HANG Every May Day the martyrs are council was taking up the ques Powderly. conservative head, at.
The capitalist courts indicted remembered in the hearts of the tion of further suppressing the socialists. One member proposed to new members and on March 13 Samuel Fielden. Albert Parall nations, In all tongues. And tempted to stop the enrollment of August Spies. Michael Schwab GREETINGS FROM May Day Greetings make it a felony for anyone to had issued secret orders to local sons, Adolph Fischer, George En that day approaches of which Au.
speak on social or industrial top.
leaders to withdraw from active xel. Louis Linss. and Oscar Neebe. gust Spics foretold in his last les in the streets of Cleveland.
participation in the strike. This all these men were anarchist and words, spoken after the hangman from a Group of Another proposal was made to deblack hood had covered his face.
clare the wearing of a Socialist fact, discovered by the workers la syndicalist leaders, writers, and 1er, helped to kill the Knights of editors. No attempt was ever made There will be a time when our Party button or any button with Labor in the following years, and to prove that any one of these silence will be more powerful than Astoria Sympathizers the arm and torch insignia of the benefited the which played men threw the bomb it was bru the motren yox sirengle rodry. a misdemeanor.
a more militant role.
tally clear from the beginning Workers, speed that day!
WORKERS LEARN that they were on trial for their ABOUT DEMOCRACY STRIKES SPREAD political beliefs.
of the Socialist Workers Party More than 50. 000 workers par OVER NATION The police had all except Par ticipated in this historie May Day During these years political sons whom they could not find in Cleveland. They learned the working class radicalism had not on the day of the opening of the and Friends of the Appeal Rezolutionary Greetings meaning of democracy as the heen unknown in the United trial, as the proceedings began, he bankers defined it. They learned, States and Karl Marx had written marched into the courtroom to sil For a Workers World!
on that day, what a number of for Horace Greeley X. Trib. in the dock with his comrades, and from the Guim Mines them had already known before; wne. In 1872 Marx had made New to go to a glorious death with that the word patriotism wag York the headquarters of the them.
merely catch word used by First International. Class con. The trial is a classic example JOHN BRUCKER business men to take away the sctous emigrants fleeing from the for the workers of what capitalist KRON BRANCH few dollars and cents that the brutal oppression in Furnejustice is. The Judge displayed Allentown, Penna.
252 MARKET STREET, NEWARK, workers were able to save.
found themselves faced with the continuous partiality and hatred May Day 1919 must forever same capitalist exploitation in the against the defendants: he ap.
of the stand as the example of the deUnited States and did not shrink pointed a special agent to select a mocracy for which the capitalist from the challenge but renewed special panel of jurors, so stacked pay triots want American work.
the fight. Most active were the that when the defence had used ingmen to fight.
THE NORTH JERSEY DISTRICT