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FREE WITH S U B S C R I PT I O N — S E E OPPOSITE PAGE THE WORKERS MONTHLY Official Organ WORKERS COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA MAX BEDACHT, Editor. Single copies, twenty-five cents—yearly subscriptions, two dollars; foreign, two fifty. Published monthly by the Daily Worker Publishing Company, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111. Entered as Second Class Matter November S, 11124, at the postoffice of Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879. VOL, V. 290 MAY, 1926 NO. 7. MAY DAY! OMRADESS This May Day leaflet of the League for the expect nothing from Struggle for the Emancipation of the Workingclass them, we can rely only Let us consider our was written by Comrade Lenin in prison in the year upon ourselves. Our position very carefully — 1896, and was distributed among the Petersburg strength lies in unity, let us examine the con- workers in forty factories to the then tremendous our method is the unit- ditions in which we spend amount of 2,000 copies. ed stubborn resistance our lives. What do we "In preparing and distributing this leaflet we felt against the bosses. Our see? We work long and masters realize of course that we were accomplishing a great revolutionary in what our strength lies hard. We produce end- act. A month and "half later there developed the 'less wealth, gold and ap- and they try in every great strike of the spinners and weavers that way to divide us and to parel, satins and silks. began and grew precisely under the influence From the 'depths of the hide the identity of in- earth we extract iron of the May Day leaflet and only waited for the occa- terests of all workers. and coal. We build ma- sion to go forward in more active form. This strike But it's a long road chines, we outfit ships, showed to us and to the whole world that our feelings that has not turning— we construct railroads. had not betrayed us. The strike began precisely in and even the best of pa- All the wealth of the those places where accidently our leaflets had been tience comes to an end. world is the product of particularly well distributed." B. Gorew-Goldmann.— In the past few years the our hands, of our sweat "Out of the Party Past." Russian workers have and Wood. And what shown their masters that kind of wages do we get for this forced labor? the cowardice of slaves has changed into If things were as they should, we would be the courageous sturdiness of men, who refuse living in fine houses, we would wear good to submit to the greed of the capitalists. A clothes, and would never have to suffer any whole series of strikes has swept thru various need. But we know well enough that our Russian cities. Most of these strikes ended suc- wages never suffice for our living. Our bosses cessfully, especially in that they threw the push down wages, force us to work overtime, bosses into terror and forced them into conces- place unjust fines upon us — in a word oppress sions. They showed that we were no longer us in every way. And then when we give voice cowardly paupers but that we had taken up the to our dissatisfaction, we are thrown into prison struggle. without further ado. As is well known the workers of many shops We have convinced ourselves only too often and factories have organized the League for the that all those to whom we turn for help are the Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working- servants and the friends of the bosses. They class with the aim of exposing and removing keep us workers in darkness, they keep us ig- all abuses, of struggling against the shameful norant so that we should not dare to fight for oppressions and swindles of our consciousless an improvement of our conditions. They keep exploiters. The League distributes leaflets at us in slavery, they arrest and imprison every the sight of which the hearts of the bosses and one who shows any signs of resistance against their servants, the police, tremble. They are the oppressors — we are forbidden to struggle. not frightened by these leaflets—they are ter- Ignorance an'd slavery— these are the means rified at the possibility of our united resistance, thru which the capitalists and the government the sign of our great power that we have al- that serves them oppress us. ready manifested more than once. We, Peters- How can we then improve our conditions, burg workers, members of the League, call upon raise our wages, shorten the working day, pro- all the rest of our comrades to -join the League tect ourselves from insults, win for ourselves and co-operate in the great task of unifying the opportunity of reading good books? Every- the working class in the struggle for their inter- body is against us — and the better off these ests.