FOR PEACE! DEMOCRACY! AND SOCIALISM!
FOR PEACE! DEMOCRACY! AND SOCIALISM! May Day Manifesto of the Socialist International TO THE WOkKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES! At a fateful hour the workers of the world are preparing to celebrate the...
...At a fateful hour the workers of the world are preparing to celebrate the First of May...
...Against world imperialism...
...The maximum of vigilance on the part of the workers in all countries is necessary...
...Disarmament must be secured in the fight against militarism and imperialism...
...For the realization of Socialism ! Hie greater the unity of organization maintained by the workers the stronger will they prove themselves to be in the historic struggles in which they are engaged...
...Say to the waster, and say to the master, "Our winter of slaving and hunger is done: "The frost chains are broken, the water runs faster, "And we are a cataract freed by the sun...
...a substantial measure of disarma-ment...
...We demonstrate on the First of May: Against Fascism...
...For Democracy ! • * * In this terrible crisis capitalism is demonstrating more clearly than ever before its incapacity to satisfy the most elementary human needs, The productive forces which it has created have slipped from its control...
...The results of the elections which the workers are at present contesting will be of historic importance...
...For the forty-hour week...
...We demonstrate on the First of May: Against armaments...
...THE BUREAU OF THE LABOR AND SOCIUIST INTERNATIONAL...
...Against war I * * * At a time when war is raging in the Far East the Disarmament Conference has commenced in Geneva...
...For the complete unity of the working class movement...
...Every split in the labor forces strengthens our enemy...
...The main issue is to defeat the attempts of big business to extend the realm of Fascism...
...Zurich, April, 1932 A MAY DAY SONG Jk BAN7DON your tools, the bricks and (lie boulders, Away from the bench,- away from machines, Straighten and square your drooped-down shoulders, March on the highways, crowd on the greens * * * Builders and weavers, men in the valleys, Makers and dreamers, this is your day...
...We demonstrate on the First of May: Against the economic madness of capitalism ! For adequate maintenance for the vieUrns of capitalism...
...It is a question of safeguarding democracy, defending the foundations of the labor movement in Germany, defeating the government of nationalist reaction in France and strengthening the power of the workers of Red Vienna...
...Against all attempts to deprive the workers of their rights...
...Out of your hovels, your slums and your alleys *• * * March with me, sing with me, I am the May...
...We demonstrate on the First of May: Against Japanese imperialism...
...A substantial measure of international disarmament would not abolish the dangers of war as long as capitalism exists, but it would considerably reduce them...
...For the very reason that the danger of war is at its greatest world disarmament is more necessary than ever...
...For...
...Only a planned organization of world economy and Socialist economic principles are capable of pointing the way out of the crisis...
...Against those who stand to gain from the imperialist system of robbery...
...We are not frozen by terror and wonder...
...Our course is attuned to the tempo of thunder, "Forward and onward, along with the May.'' Say to the rulers, "You, thieves and despoilers, "Tyrants and schemers, the bonds you contrived "To tether forever the lives of the toilers "Are shattered at last, and your hour has arrived * * *" Abandon your hammers, your picks and your shovels, Workers and dreamers, for this 5s yotff day, Out of your Ghettoes, your slums and your hovels, March with me, sing with me, I am the May * * * S. A. DE WITT...
...The dams you have built, we are sweeping away...
...Japanese troops are still on Chinese soil...
...There is still a great danger that Japan's imperialistic attack upon China, and the failure of the capitalist governments to force it to fulfill its treaty obligations, carry within them the germ of- a new world war...
...In the Far East the flame of war has not yet been extinguished...
...We demonstrate on the First of May' Against dissension in the\ working class...
...The overthrow of Fascism must clear the path for the Socialist reorganization of society...
...The misery and distress of millions, the idle factories and the mass unemployment are the signs of its decay...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 18
