All Out for May Day
All Out for May Day Hosts of Labor to March In Greatest Demonstration Trade Unions, Socialist Party and Youth Organizations Join for Mighty Holiday Display—More Than 100,000 to Be in...
...I "The purpose of the conference is to deal definitely and concretely with the Wagner-Conn ery Labor Disputes Bill, the Black-Cor.nery flaYty-Hour Work-Week BUI, and ether legislative measures which labor* insists be enacted into law n this, session of Congress...
...Ongj more it was a situation in whM the labor hating employer ends* gered a whole structure of peep because of his bitterness...
...Many thousands are expected to answer the call for a show of working class solidarity on May First...
...The workers and farmers are called today to make this day a demonstration of our demand for the thirty-hour week, for adequate social security, against company uionism, against Fascism...
...Labor believes American would pay that to redeem ea is dustry from mud and bondage...
...The union committee asked for union recognition as the exclusive bargaining agency of the workers," Mr...
...It will be confined to jb» discussion and to the developJbeaf of a strategic campaign in P*elf of the enactment of the Wagner-Connery Labor Disputes P? and other labor legislative ¦*****res pending'm Congress...
...But above all we make this day a renewal ef oar determined and unfailing purpose to wage war on the capitalist system until it, with all its vicious offspring, shall have been abolished and in its place there ahall be established a workers world of security and peace for all...
...A plea for a united front with the Communists was emphatically denied...
...The actual hour at which workers are expected to assemble is 12 o'clock noon, prepared to begin the march at 1 p.m...
...They carried on as long as possible and then initiated the strike movement themselves...
...Congressional leaders might and probably would deny it, but there is in feet a sub rose agreement not to report out the Wagner bill until Congress has acted on extention of NBA...
...Parade in Brownsville Monday Night Monday, April 29th...
...Later in the week the company, a subsidiary of General Motors, indicated its willingness to grant the union's demands in the form of a set ef counter-proposals, on which it asked a veto by the strikers...
...The Labor Committee of the Socialist Party announced excellent response to the call to trade unions all over the country to join in the annual celebration of May Day...
...It is...
...Chevrolet Men Strike...
...conference win be limited P * discussion and to consideration f^keae legislative matters only...
...Jersey City trade unions, the Workmen's Circle and German workers' clubs will participate...
...All oat on Hay Day...
...They did not de that, although the employers claim they did...
...The Labor <p-aj* Conference organised by the ¦party, JwbJch includes the WorkM'i 3ppele, the Unemployed League*)- and other labor and fraternal organizations, has arranged for an imposing parade which will wind up at West Park Band Stand...
...The plant makes transmits ions for Chevrolet and Pontaic cars...
...After months of vague promises and glittering generalities the present administration in every real issue sides with the forces of the owning ifrqup and labor stagger* under the blow of a new betrayal, i With government aid and co1 operation, the great corporations i build their company unions...
...The government moves ahead to build up its greet war machine while living conditions become unbearable for millions of workers and farmers...
...This year marks the 49th anni| versary of Mays Day as a workers' holiday...
...beginning at U o'clock an Monday morning, April 29...
...The May Day committee expects to jam the Labor Temple in a manner reminiscent of the old days...
...The union demands were for a five-day week or seven and onehalf hours, a minimum wage of 70 cents an hour and a general wage advance of not less than five cents an hour, elimination of the speed-up system and a signed contract...
...2300 Out in Toledo Plant Tie Up General Motor* Shop* When ' Company Refuse* Demand*—Early Victory Insfcahd •?•OLE DO...
...All Out for May Day Hosts of Labor to March In Greatest Demonstration Trade Unions, Socialist Party and Youth Organizations Join for Mighty Holiday Display—More Than 100,000 to Be in Line —Mass Meeting: on Mall in Park By Henry Fruchter "J^l.L out on May Day...
...Green declared that the conference was called to discuss ¦Batata of great immediate in-* mmt t* labor and requiring immediate consideration...
...They expect that General Motors, one of the greatest of the industrial giants, will know there is a fight on hand...
...The laboring maessi are hope* of a battot Mara...
...MILWAUKEE.—The Federated Trades Council and the Wisconsin Workers' Committee will unite with the Socialists Party for their May Day demonstration...
...Generally, the industrial picture looks a bit better this week...
...Among many other celebrations' in connection with May Day are the following: A meeting under the joint auspices of the Workers' Unemployed Union, Local 21, the Socialist Party, 1st A. D., Bronx, the 7th Senior Y.P.S.L., Drama, and the Workmen's Circle School No...
...A rally has been organized for the Washington Hall in Haverstraw, N. Y...
...developments later in the week indicated an early settlement, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, declared in a statement from Washington there was a chance of the strike spreading to other cities...
...To make this demonstration our protest against the whole war game and the criminally stupid preparation for war...
...apposition by concentrating it efforts, by speaking collectively bars U the capital city, by mobilkdng the full and complete support ft labor and all its friends in be|aV ef the Wagner-Connery Labor ¦Spates Bill and other measures P*uding in Congress which have Mas given the endorsement of the A*erieea Federation of Labor, •wwteaic Campaign Planned ..' "Please send representatives of far international union to this ^btference...
...The idea is to wiggle out of having to enact the Wagner bill...
...Green Summons All Unions to Plan Drive fir For Labor's Program in Congress—More Than 6,000,000Workers to Be Represented 4t Washington Meeting •AN intensive drive in behalf of labor legislation now pending in ™ Congress will Se mapped out at an emergency conference ^¦jledbv \VHUam Green, president of the American Federation of jSpf&frni Washington for Monday...
...The outlook appears to be for betterment but most of us now want to ob serve the —hit sins and ai9 forecasting shadow before wi breathe easier...
...A thorough Socialist and labor program has been arranged for the mass meeting...
...The walkout was tight and penect...
...Frank R Crosswaith, prominent New York Socialist and laabor organizer, will be the principal speaker...
...j National Labor Conference | Catted to Meet Monday ^^^Hbg*** i ¦ nam...
...i*m$eulurly as it idkbs* to pending measures in jffch «Ke Anteriean Pederation of tabor ;< deeply interested, calls gjfrl/peeial consideration imme , "For this reason I am calling a ssaference of the representatives W national and international kkmsj state federations of labor pad city central bodies to convene at headquarters of the American Pederation of Labcr...
...A concert by a fame** ban* wtt he rendered in the Mail of the park...
...The situation still bears watch ing, but eruption probably hp been prevented...
...N.S...
...Manufacturers' associations, ¦ip employers of labor, corporaHs*, and financial interests are ferrying on a Campaign of opposition which is most unusual and extraordinary...
...1, Bronx, will be held April 30, at 8 p. m. in the auditorial af| Public School 66 (141st Street and Cypress Avenue— Pelham Bay leant to Cypress Avenue...
...National Executive Committee, Socialist Party, U. 8. A I The Labor Week '-By Chester M. Wrlqbt— P)R a few days the happy thought in Washington political circles was, "all's quiet on the industrial front...
...First observed by the American Federation of Labor as a day of nationwide strikes and parades' in its militant campaign for the Eight-Hour Day, May Day has since been adopted by the workers of every country of the world...
...The purpose of that great conference is to impress upon Congress the absolute need for the Wagnei bill and certain other labor measures, including the 30-hour week bill and to make it very clear that failure on the part of Congressmen will be followed by certain political campaign activities which no officeholder likes to contemplate...
...The organizations participating are the Socialist Party, Young People's Socialist League, the Workers' Unemployed Union, Workers' Party, Workmen's Circle, and the Women's Union Label Club, and local unions of the painters, bakers, etc...
...Union City 1 Support of the Socialist Party's drive to stage an effective May Day demonstration has been promised by some of the largest A. F. of L. unions in Hudson County...
...Beginning in an initial CODr ference of over 300 delegates, sub-committees, working night and day, have observed interest in the May Day celebration mount among leaders and rank and file...
...KANSAS CITY, Kansas.—Approximately 25 labor unions will join the Socialist Party in a monster demonstration in celebration of May Day...
...The keynete of this year's demonstration will be a plea for the 30-hour week and a protest against the threat of war and fascism...
...Although...
...Thus, there are 40,000 possible sources of industrial disagreement...
...Conn.—A monster street parade and rally on the Central Green, which has been planned by the Socialist Party in conjunction with organized labor, is expected to be the largest in the city's history...
...Perhaps that is true, but let us set the matter straight, at least to some extent...
...While meet local unions must secure strike sanction from their national or international beadquar(Continued on Page Four) ten, no parent body will compel its local unions to live under intolerable conditions...
...Green's eall for the contjeafehi read* aa follow*: ^^^BJMiBIWr lltsBjtsaa existing ** «engr*sa...
...Labor must meet My...
...The strike was called when company officials, refusing to grant union , demands in a conference with the union's representatives, offered a series of counter-proposals which the union found unacceptable, principally because of the refusal to sign a contract with the union...
...In a world of tremendous possibilities for security and well-being, millions upon millions of workers find themselves engulfed in misery and poverty...
...With heads uncovered swear we air to carry on until this task shall be accomplished and the dream of toilers throughout the ages shall be realized...
...There will be no admission charge...
...David Laa***^ will address the gathering...
...NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.— A May Day Celebration will be held in Irish Benevolent Hall, 18 Law(Continued on Page Five) ton Street, on the evening of May First...
...American Federation of Labor officials do not expect this strike to spread to other plants—not this week, at least...
...early this week it «a» inwoanrH at the office of the ajwsH»i"» Pederation of Labor in Wsshmgton that the delegates expected to reepoad "will repreHpwttfw-'than 6,009,000 workers directly, and approximately U.0OA.000 p^^faydireetr».'' _Tht Wagner labor disputes bill sad the thirty-hear work bill, both Mansosed hf the American Federate «<-Labor, will he among the atfsf sseesures to be discussed at Mr...
...The latter had refused to believe that the workers would make a* effective a demonstration of their strength as they gave when the zero hour arrived...
...There are perhaps 40,000 local unions in the United States...
...Then the flash went over the wire* that the Chevrolet plant in Toledo had been struck...
...Seats for about 20.000 will he- pro* rided and prominent labor and Socialist representative* will apeak...
...Green said "It has been proved conclusively that the union had a clear majority...
...YONKERS — The Arfoeiter Ring and the Socialist Party branch will unite in a May Day celebration...
...The parade will start at Pennsylvania and Sutter Aves...
...This May Day finds the workers faced with greater responsibilities than ever...
...Mb** Fight Ooeosition 'The widespread interest which has been aroused by the WagnerConnery Labor Disputes Bill shows pearly that this measure is re¦pded as of major importance to Mhor and to working men and panaen and their friends everyJehtre...
...m making known the call for flat —fin...
...The rot ewai to be held oa Friday THE SOCIALIST PARTY'S MAY DAY MANIFESTO Workers and Farmers of America.' Members of the American Federation of Laborl Members of the Socialist Party...
...This is the sentiment that inspires scores of thousands of workers awaiting the big May Day celebration in New York City...
...George H. Goebel will preside at a mass meeting to be held on May 1st...
...at 8 p. m., in the Workmen's Circle Lyceum, 190 Belmont Ave., for which a special program, including Charles Solomon as special guest speaker, has been prepared...
...Municipal and r state- governments are mobilizing ', their forces in increased efforts of • repression directed aganst workers...
...ROCKLAND COUNTY...
...at 7:w All party members are requested to participate...
...Hundreds of New Leaders have been ordered for distribution...
...W**g your credentials with you |N come prepared to render all ffcustanee possible in an endeavor KiPrrvail upon Congress to enact g» Wagner-Connery Labor Dis^*»s Bill and other labor legisP|a* into law at the earliest pos...
...For months there has been p week when the textile industry hp been out of the news...
...In.' other places these forces of re- > pression and brutality are gather- | ing their strength against the day i whan, they shall be unleashed upon j i Here in America we witness millions unemployed—millions existing upon the bitter and woefully inadequate bread of charity...
...That does not modify the fact that there is, among leaders, a hope that the industrial scene will not be tee badly disturbed before Congress acts on the Wagner bill, which labor regards as vital...
...State governors ai mill owners went to WashingUs They waved the /lag over Japans* imports and over the processus tax Perhaps the import situate* needs attention...
...This wsp we have a cabinet committee plan ning an inquiry, by dirction of th President...
...They are too numerous to ha printed...
...This indicates the progress which the party has made with organized labor in Union City and its surrounding towns...
...QREETINGS on May Day, the international holiday of the working pdtople of the entire world...
...May Day evening, at the joint headquarters, 29-31 Palisade Ave...
...Union City...
...That does not mea nthey asked for a closed -hop...
...All danger j not past, bat tonight It is remote Fast action in these test three si four days seeaas to have forest most of the wrinkles out of a 9 nation that had union leaders deep ly concerned for a time...
...A number of members of Congress may change their minds when the national labor conference called by President William Green meets in Washington next Monday...
...Individual maps with detailed Instructions have been mailed to all organizations for circulartxation among their members, aa to precise meeting place, line of assemblage, etc...
...Each one of these has a certain independence of action and each one is a possible point of grievance...
...One of the tightest picketlines ever thrown out in a strike was strung about the plant, making it impossible for any one, net even company officials and office employees, to enter...
...Among the organizations participating will be the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Local 143, the Workmen's Circft and its Women's Auxiliary, the Young People's Socialist League and the Socialist Party...
...Cberal singing and ether entertainment will d* on the program...
...All out on May Day...
...Over 3.000 workers will march to demonstrate for the passage of the 30-Hour Work Week Bill...
...Those who remember back to the citywide strike in Toledo will not expect this strike to fizzle...
...to deal fairly with the union or redress any of the employees' grievance...
...the Brownsville workers will hold a large parade, ending in a mass meeting at Hopkinson, corner Pitkin Aves...
...Watel the Pittsburgh steel district...
...Oneol in Jersey City JERSEY CITY.—James Oneal, editor of The New Leader, will speak in Cooperative Hall here on May 1st as a part of what is expected to be the finest May Day celebration in years...
...With sickening acceleration of speed, the capitalist system drives ahead in its blind and stupid program that forces down the standard of living for the great masses while it piles up wealth for the few...
...While hunger and want constantly confront multitudes of workers, the capitalist governments are in a mad frenzy of preparation for war that promises to make the world ' a gigantic slaughter .house where the blood and brains of the workers shall be coined into wealth for the profit seekers...
...Where : workers dare to stand for their : own unions they find themselves i opposed by every form of life, abuse and brutality...
...The opposition to this fsseiuie throughout the nation is bjnve...
...But deeper thing than those are wrong with textile and until deeper things are ftxa there will be no real fixing, fa United Textile Workers will tal that to the cabinet committee, j to the tax, it happens to be th fact that a really decent wsp) added to the tax, would add no man than five cents to the price of i shirt...
...In addition, the Joint Boards of the Dressmaker* and Cloakmakers, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the Millinery and Cap Makers, and scores of other labor bodies, art securing their own bands of musk, preparing their float* and ilsgeat, and printing appropriate literatars for their various industries...
...The theory back of that manifestly <is that, with NR.A extended, it may be possible for reactionaries in Congress to induce their colleagues to abandon the Wagner bill...
...Over one hundred thousand copies of our May Day Manifesto are being distributed to the various participating organizations, with large quantities of slogans, buttons, banners, etc...
...Vigilante gangs are taking the law into thenown hands in many communities to break up workers' organizations...
...The federation will do all it can to support them...
...Many Cities Join In Big May Day Celebrations Pittsburgh, New Haven, Chicago, Milwaukee, Newark Among Those Planning Labor Demonstrations PITTSBURGH, Pa.—A huge mass * meeting to be addressed by prominent Socialist and labor representatives will mark the May Say celeb: ation here...
...To make this demonstration a determined proteft against every form of repression and the denial of fundamental human rights...
...Called by the United Automobile Workers' Federal Union, an affiliate of the American Federation ef Labor, the strike went into effect with a precision and determination on the part of the workers that astonished the city and company officials...
...NEWARK, N. J. — Socialists here have been active in mobilizing the support of the Central Labor Union of Essex County...
...Its support and participation in the May Day celebration has been enlisted...
...He characterized the Toledo walkout aa spontaneous, caused by the company's refuse...
...Prominent labor and Socialist officials are scheduled to speak at the monster rally set for the evening of May 1st in Cooperative Hall, 472 Summit Ave...
...N. Y — The Socialist Party will cooperate in the first May Day meeting ever to be held in this county with the textile unions and the Workmen's Circle...
...NE\t HAVEN...
...If there is a truce it is a truce only in part and, I think, a minor part, at that...
...The parade, in which tMJM N* expected to participate, will start in two sections, an* downtown at tea People'a Homo, the ether uptown from the garment center, both sectiona asesashHag at nee*, and terminating at Central Park...
...At is NOT filled with the promise «j light and sweetness in thst grtal literal melting pot of the nation It ismH possible tonight to fate cast what will happen, or when But those looking for news •ugh to keep an eye on steei hi th Pittsburgh area...
...Irresponsible and impractical demagogues such as Long and Coughlin, with vague promises and confusion of thought, add to the chaos, setting up the conditions which make for Fascism...
...It seems to me that I there is any commodity in th making of which labor should a* be exploited and demeaned, it is | the making of bread Now a word of warning...
...The Socialist Party calls open all workers and farmers in America to demonstrate on May 1: I To demonstrate our solidarity with all workers everywhere in the world, regardless of race, creed, color, or nationality...
...The patience of the men is exhausted...
...However so far as we can learn, there isn't much change in employment figures and until those begin tc change in a big way there will not be much reason for the cheering section to go into action...
...Workers and Socialist* of All Countries...
...The Hational Executive Commit- | tee of the Socialist Party calls upon you, the workers from factory, office and farm, to lay down your tools on May 1 and to join in huge labor demonstrations in 1 every city, town and village in the United States...
...expresses the awakening in the labor movement Front homes and headquarters, from shops and offices, from factories, and other places, men and women and children wig pour into the streets to join the demonstration, to express the ideal of solidarity on Labor's international holiday...
...I "All Out ea May Day...
...New York City has been near* a city-wide bread strike than k generally known...
...However, leader* and rank and file, men and women, are eager to find a place in the grant demonstration...
...If there is stl some danger tonight, it is mo* acute in the Jewish division of th industry...
...ftrpresentatiyes of national and international unions, state iftjerarions of labor and city central bodies will attend the contemner to djscu** a program of action to be laid before it by t,™J(r...
...1 In many places where workers ' nave sought to build a world of ; security they have been crushed by ' i the brutal forces of fascism...
...William E. Duffy will be the principal speaker...
...Those in charge of arrangements have been thrilled by the intense interest displayed by the various labor and Socialist sections...
...David Lesser, chairman of the Workers' Alliance of America, will be chairman of the mass meeting...
...Let us make May Day, 1935, a historic celebration of our comradely solidarity and our iron determination to break through the bonds of poverty, unemployment and capitalist repression to win peace and plenty...
...Another move to* wsrd_the long expected showdown between unionises and antiunionism in the antonrohile indusJhelT^srSSs^^e9 Chit' roiet Meter Company here went on strike in support of demands for collective bargaining and improvement* in wage and working conditions...
...Pittsburgh, on May Day at 1 p. m. ERIE, Pa.—For the first time in the history of this city the Central I^abor Union, with some 60 affiliated bodies, has accepted the Socialist Party's invitation to hold a joint May Day celebration...
...Many Mnntlfi Arranged The United Hebrew Trades, the Jewish Daily Forward, the League for Industrial Democracy,, the Jewish National Workers' Alliance, the Paole Zion, the Jewish Socialist Verband, the Anti-Fasciat League —all are adding their strength and enthusiasm to the talabnHan...
...There hass been newspaper comment to the effect that there is supposed to be a labor truce in effect...
...The statistical wizards have built ur charts, tables and c a 1 c u 1 a tioiu which indicate what is called better business conditions...
...The Socialist Party, with its various branches, aa wall aa the organizations of the Young People's Socialist League, the Women's Section, the Falcon group* and various otiter auxiliary bodies, will, of course, come out in fall force The Workmen's Circles and their Young Circle Leagues are exerting them selves to the utmost to bring out their member*, young and old, m a most impressive display of strength and spirit...
...As to the Wagner bill, candidly, the chances are not too bright...
...impossible to list tlM...
...organizations that will perticipaU...
...at 7 p. m. A large part of the program will be given over to a show of workers' culture in the form of speeches, songs and other entertainment...
...CHICAGO...
Vol. 18 • April 1935 • No. 17
