Vapaus, April 27, 1929

              Na 100 — 1929
PKOLETAARINEN
VAPPU-
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KAIKILLE KÖYHÄLISTÖN
KANSAINVALISENA
JUHLAPÄIVÄNÄ
BETTY PERTTUNEN
LEMPI HAUTALA
HILMA PARKKO
HILDA SIMI j a POIKANSA
URHO
HJ. KESKINEN
ALEX HAUTALA
EMIL HANKILA
K A L L E ASUNMAA
LAURI SALMI
ARVO MÄKI
FR. MÄKI
JOEL JÄRVI
A. HAKALA
JACK KORPI
U. LINDSTED
N. BJÖRBACKKA
A. TOIVOLA
J; KATTELUS
K A L L E PITKÄNEN
W. WIERTOLA
J. TUOVINEN
N. LUOMA
W. KUUSELA
A. HAKALA
A. MANNINEN
MATTI MÄKI
MATTI HEBAKKA
MATTI UUSITUPA
T. W. KUUSELA
Er.RO WESA
E. KEMPPAINEN
W. HURNESTI
K A L L E SAARI
TELIX SAARI
E. NIEMELÄ
ILMARI HANTULA
KUSTI KENKKILÄ
K A L L E KOLARI
3IARTTI YLINEN-JOHN
KANGAS
ONNI SAVIJÄRVI
; J. HÄRSILÄ
JOHN TUISKU
W. KOIVISTO
E. KALTIAINEN
SULO WIRTANEN
OSKARI PUUSAARI
M. HALPAINEN
MATTI PAUHARJU
Box 519, South Pprcupine, Ont.
•Lauantaina, hnhtik. 27 p;nä—Safa. April 27 SivnS
on U
EMIL VIRTASEN,
Työn lippu hulmuaa-
Se johdattaa
työnarmeijaa päin riiston rintamaa.
Ja punahehJuätansa yhä vaan
sytyttää orjaluokan kahleissaan
vihan ja tiedon lieskaan suureen, suureen,
mi tunkeutuupi riiston alkujuureen
ja polttaa tuhkaksi sen vääryyd^ny
mi orjaks' orjuutti myös ihmisejt.
Työn lippu hulmuaa.
Sen nähdä saa
nuo herjat, konnat, jotka kukkuraa
työnluokan kärsimysten yhä vaan
lisäävät ilkamoiden vallassaan.
Työn lipun kantajaa jo monta, monta
vtukk' kahlinnut on, eipä verratonta
sen voittokulkua voi estää sortovalta.
Työn lippu nousee vaikka tuhhan alta.
Työn lippu hulmuaa,
sz johdattaa
taas luokkaa-armeijamme rintamaa
cespäin kuin ennenkin. Ja yhä vaan
on tunnus piirrettynä purppuraan:
Hei, proletaarit, yhteistyöhön, työhön!
Työaseen kera sotakirves vyöhön
ja ies niskoiltamme murtakaamme,
lein taistellen me suuren voiton saamme.
Työn lippu hulmuaa.
Se johdattaa
työnarmeijaa päin riiston rintamaa,
ja punahehkullansa yhä vaan
sytyttää orjaluokan kahleissaan
vihan ja tiedon lieskaan suureen, suureen,
mi tunkeutuupi riiston alkujuureen
ja polttaa tuhkaksi sen vääryyden,
mi orjaks' orjuutti myös ihmisen.
T H E Y O U T H S E C T I ON
Yoong Workers! Pown Tools on May Day!
D E M O N S T R A T E O N M A Y D A Y Y O U R S O L I D A R I T Y W I T H I N T E R N A ­T
I O N A L W O R K I N G C L A S S ! — A G A I N S T T H E B O S S P O L I C E T E R R O R !
A G A I N S T I M P E R I A U S T W A R ! A G A I N S T W A G E - C € T S AND
S P E E D - U P S ! — F O R T H E D E F E N C E O F T H E S O V I E T U N I O N!
A N D F O R T H E O R G A N I Z A T I O N O F T H E
Y O U N G W O R K E R S!
Yoimg Workers! Rafly to Celebnde May Day!
THE DISTRICT AGIT. PROP. DEPT'S GREETINGS TO T H E WOEKING
CLASS YOUTH
The main task of our youth move- stress the importance of international
ment Is to organize the working class May Day, organize and take part
youth into their own organizations, j i n May Day celehrat!öns and de-to
intensify the activities of these monstrations. We must show the
organlzations so that they can cope workers that May Day is their own
Tvith the; questions pertaining to the | holiday, that they must lay dovm
role that the youth must play i n the their tools and raHy to demonstrate
class struggle.
Our unlts must therefore participatc
i n a l i the campaigns that the vorking
class is conducting i n general: the
campaign of organizing the unorganiz-ed,
campaign against the war danger,
There are two anniversaries i n the
international- revolutionarj' movement
that. more than any others, are e n -
graved on the hearts of a l i class-con-scious
workers,—"May Day" and No-vember
seventh.
For many years it has been the
custom of militant- workers to salute
the approach of May Day v i t h the
slogan of "Down Tools!" This is a r e -
minder to the boss class that they
who produce the wealth will one day
east away their chains and own it.
The reformists alwa:?s try to make
the workers forget the meaning pf
May Day. I n this country they at-tempt
to abolish it altogether. They
attempt to set i n its place ths Festival
of Ciass CkJllaboration—Sept. 2nd.
Afraid of the revolutionary traditions
associated with May Day these friends
of the boss. these labor traitors, t ry
to supplant i t with a respectable c a -
pitalist holiday. "IlMinES vu chem unUi
now May Day has never been fittingly
olJserved i n this country. Owing to
the ohstruction of the yeIlow skates,
i n Canada i t häs never been the daj
of solid mass revolutionary dempns-tration
as i n other countries. I n some
parts of Canada the workers have
responded magnificently to the spirit
of May Day. General strikes of.great
dimensions have marked the day. But.
on the whole, i n Canada, May Day
ha? never given the recögnitiori that
i t deserves f r o m the working class.
Down Tools! This May D a y
The time has come when May Day
must be celebrated in real eamest.
I n Canada, May Day must come into
its own. I n every Industry, i n every
town, the slogan of " D O W N T O O L S !"
must be raised. The bo.^ses and labor
fakers must be 5hown that not Sept.,
2nd, but May \ First, the day of the
workers own choosing^ is the day the
workers claim as their: own. For the
wofkers this coming May Day has a
Special meaning. At a time when the
international bass class is fererishly
preparing for a military ättack upon
Against tlie Labor Fakers! For the
Defence of the Soviet Union! For
the Organization of the 'Worklng
Yoath
These labor fakers, the Jimmy
Simpsons, Tom Moores and Woods-worths,
are also helping the boss
i n the preparatlons for the attack
upon the Sovlet Union. 'With their
paclflst trlpe they help to conceal the
war preparatlons of the capitallsts.
when war is declared wUl use the
war sltuatlon to brlng about the
downfall of C a n a i l a n capltallsm.
"SoUdarity with workers of the
Sovlet Union for the defence of the
flrst Workers' State!" and " F o r u a rd
to the organization of the worklng
youth for the flght, for better con-ditions!"
must be the slogans this
May Day.
The young workers must make M a j
Day the startlng polnt of a deter-mined
effort to wln for themselvea
better wages, better Itving condltlons,
and fuU rlghts for the worklng
class. Every young worker should a t -
tend the street and factory gate
meetings whlch wlll be held durlng
this campaign. Thousands pf young
workers are looklng for a lead. Let
them now reallze that only the Young
Communlst League stands for the
Interests of the worklng youth.
The young workers of this country Young Workers! Show your work.
must on M a y Day show that they do i ing class solldarity this May Day.
not Intend to flght their Russian! Show your opposition tp the boss
brothers. On May Day they must
show their international solldarity—
must show the bosses and their
class and the labor betrayers! Flght
against the police terror! Join the
Young Communlst League, the flght-agents
that the young vorkers are Ing organization of the worklng youth!
awake to their own Interests and J . C — " Y o u n g V/orker".
The Story of May Day
OSUUSLIIKKEEMME saavuttamat tu­lokset
ovat voimakkaita todistuksia
ja puhuvat selvää kieltä sen tosi­asian
puolesta, että se ei ole pysynyt vain
nurkkastoorina, vaan on aina pyrkinyt laa­jentamaan
sitä mahdollisimman laajoille ku­lutta
ja joukkojen käsittäväksi liikkeeksi.
vonroiSAA VAPPUA
Pohjois-Ontarion Työläisten Osuus-kaupan
Työläisiltä
Tiedämme, että meidän tulee antaa osta^
jille suora, tasapuolinen ja toverillinen koh­telu,
ja että me olemme täyttämässä tär­keätä
yhteiskunnallista tehtävää, että jouk­kojen
palveleminen yhteisen hyväksi on ar­vokkainta
työtä mitä yleensä saattaa olla
olemassa.
Timmins
C. M. Haapanen
Matty Johnson
W. Wal<'nius
N. D. Thotchuck
€. Carbonnae
P. Shutiakow
Wm. Mackie
A. Jaakkola
F. Wuori
Mike Maticshen
Kukka Wirta
IJlly Kallio
Annee Shinovitch
Ivar Aalto
their demands.
We must convince the workers and
working class youth that they can
succesfuUy combat exploitation only by forcibly broken up; when the revolu-
May Day, as a spring festival of
the oppressed, dates back thousands
oif j'ears.- I n ancient tlmes the slave,
the scrf, or the peasant, would, with
elaborate ceremonles, demonstrate
their aspirations towards freedom
from slavery and oppression. The
custom survived into modem tlmes.
Durlng the sixteenth and seven-teenth
' centuries In England there
were recurring incidents of rebelllon
mutiny and disorder on the part of
the tciling masses, which caused the
traditions of M a y Day to persist de-
5plte a l i the changes i n soclety.
The Eight-Hour Day
May Day, for the mpdern labor
movement, came into i t s own i n con-nectlon
with the struggle for the
eight-hour day. The slogän Pf the
worklng day as "the flrst step i n the
direction of the emanclpation of the
working class" was raised by the
Flrts International in 1864. Twc
years later the National Labor Union
raised this slogan in the United
States.
I n 1884, i n the City of Baltimore.
Ing thrddgh'* its. direct agents, the
city police 'pr-'Ohlcago, attempted to
crush the strlkö uhder the club, the
gun and the hbr«e's hoof. Seven pf
the police were mortally wounded by
the exploslon of a bomb thrown by
some unknown person at the monient
when the police advanced tp rlde
down the imarmed crowd of harvest-er
workers, There followed such an
exhlbltion of' terror as Jiad never
been known In America.
International May Day
It was undoubtedly the dramatlc
settlng supplled by the martyrdom
of the Chicago strlke leaders whlch
made unchangeable the Idcntlty of
May Day as the International Day
Kirkland Lake So. Porcupine
E. Kuusisto
A. W. Kivinen
A. Nurmi
E. Erkkilä
L. McDonald
Irene Rissonen
Pete Boychuck
E. Kuuusela
S. Kivistö
M. Purnega
J. Ketola
E. Kemppainen
E. "VVesa
Viesti Wirta
Workers Mpative of
Ontario I t i
New
Timmins - South Porcupine - Kirkland Lake
Ontario
Proletaarinen
Arne, Ellen ja John Brandt,
Red Lake, Ont
May Day In Czarlst Rossia
The movement spread to far-away
Russia. It Is Interestlng to note that
of the worklng class. In 1889. when 1" t^e days precedlng May 1 1896,
the Second International was found-ed,
Its first International Congresis
In a jail at St. Petersburg, i n the
Russian Empire, we flnd a young
organizing, that they must flght for the
right of organization. The workers
campaign against the attacks, directed can abolish the present distressful and
by the ruling class, against the funda-mental
rights of workers to free
speech, press and assemblage etc.
We must also take advantage of ali
available opportunities to carry on
agitation and propaganda to make our
movement and aims known to the
vast masses of young workers. One
of these opportunities is the May
Day. the day that is dedicated tc
the warfcers, the day they raUy under
the red flag, the day they pronounce
their allegiance to their common
cause: the Uberation of the world
proletariat from the slavsry of öp-
Bressing capitalism.
Thousands after tliousands of work-ers
i n a l i the countries of Eiirope and
other contlnents gather together tc
demonstrate their demands to the
nilers. In the Sovlet Union it is
a celebration of victory. of achieve-ments,
of success and for the building
of fiodallsm. In capitallst countries
the workers come together on Ma?
Day to review their armies. demon­strate
their strength. From a day
that was orginally assigned to further
the demand pf the 8-hour day, May
Day celebratlons have developed intc
a day of revolutionaiy actlvity and
international Eolidarity of the work-ing
class.
A great portion of the workers of
Canada do not realize the signifi-cance
of May Day. Our duty is to
humiliailng condltlons, company ter.
ror, speed-up system, low wage3 arid
a multltude of other grievances only
by building strong working class or­ganlzations,
trade unions, party and
Y . C X . unlts.
The May Day must be used for
these purposes! Yoimg workers must
Jöln In this campaign! Join the Yoxmg
Communist League!
W i t h May Day Greetings:
Agit.-PrtJp. -Department, DJi.C-,
Distrlct V . Y . C L . of Canada.
FIGHT FOR FBEEDOM OF WORK-IKG-
CLASS FIGHTERS FOR
FREE SPEECH!
Comrades: Ryan, Farbey, Stewart
Smitb« 0'Snllivaii, Andrew5 and Lang-ley,
five of them members of the
Young Comnmnist Leagne, have been
tent to jall for a znonth for attempt-the
First Workers Republlc; when „ ,„ , . , , ^. ,
working class organizatlins a ^ being t f " f ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^^
bor movement between those whc
tionary volce of the working class is „w.„ain.^te .d to . stage the fl^g ht forj, th^r. e
being stifled, and when the bosses' "!fi-J^°"f T % ^^L^lV^'
are imprlsoning the'best elements of 1 Tn, i ^ ' ^ , ^
the working class—May Day must be I M a y Day because of the traditions
3 day of worklng cla.ss sodldarity, a
day of struggle against the oppressprs
pf ths working class.
May Day and the Y o u th
The working youth i n particular
must participate en masse in the
coming May Day demonstrations. More
than ever befpre the situation of the
young workers calls for a struggle
against the bo&s and f o r better con-^
diticns. At the present the bosses are
c n the offensive against the young
TOtorkers. They are beating down
wages, they are introducing speed-up
sj*stems SO as to sweat the young
workers .more. This offensive of the
bcsses must be broken and the young
workers must wage a counter offensive
against those who live i n luxury on
the fruits of f the workers' labor.
Not only against the bosses but
sgalnst the best friends of the boss,
declared May Day. 1890, to be the, polltlcal prisoner surreptltlously scrlbbl
time för demonstrations of the work- mg an appeal to the workers of St.
mg class m ali countries for the, Petersburg to "organize a general fes-eight-
hour day. tlval of labor" for May First. The
The proclamatlon of the Second I V » " ^ ^as Vladimir Ilyltcb
international gave the international: Ulyanov-afterwards to be known as
character. The followlng year, 1890, L e " ! " - And hcre also the central slo-of
rebelllon associated wlth It. The
latter elements, i n order to ellminate
the "red" quality and to transform the
eight-hour movement into a respec.
table and patriotlc affalr, succeeded In
having Feb. 22, 1885, the anhiversary
of W a s h i n ^ n ' s birthday, flxed as the
date for beginnlng the movement,
instead of May Ist.
The plans of the ccnsen-atlve ele­ments
were, however, upset the fol-lowlng
year at the annual conven-tlon
In 1885 of the Federation of the
Organized Trades and Labor Unions
of the United States and Canada
(the organization which evolved In­to
the American Federation of Labor)
by the adoption of a motlon that
American labor should imdertake tc
put Into effect the eight-hour day on
the first of May, 1886.
May Day, 1886
I t was that first of May, 1886,
which became the biggest tuming
ing to speak to~their feUow worker3jthe labor fakers. the trade unIon point up to that time i n American
at a Street comer meeting in TtHtmtc • bureaucrats, must the young work-'
on the issne of frec ^peech for the ers so fight. These Judases oppose
woifcing-cIass.
The iappeal against thk savage
sentence mad^ to a bigher conrt of
the organization of the working youth
into the Unions, they assist the boss
i n keeping the young workers boimd
caPitallst class jostice has been Io»t. hand and foot. thanks largely to these
T b ^ tenn begaa on April IStb. swine the young workers throughout
Tonng wic«ters! Pxvtest and tigbt tor the country are almost completely un-the
realeaise of tbese class -»ar organized, they must be foughfc and
psisooxTst
•TTonng Wotket^, Toronto.
May Day is a good day for every
young work€r to start fighting.
labor history. The attempt to carry
out the pian of establishing the
eight-hour day i n the McCormick
Harvester works at Chicago brought
brought the first great world-wide
serles of May Day demonstrations.
I n Budapest. Hun^ary, 50,000 work-ers
dempnstrated. Eight or ten thou.
sand workers went out on a May Day
strlke i n Warsaw and the efforts of
the police to repress the strlke led to
bloodshed.
I n Germany the demonstratlon that
year was carried through, accom-panled
by ä big strlke In Hamburg.
I n Spaln and other countries the day
was observed wlth demonstrations.
The leaders of the British trade
gan had to do wlth the demand for
the eight-hour day, and i t held out
the promise of a revolutionary order.
The proclamatlon which Lenin .smuggl-ed
put of the prlson was followed by
a great May Day demonstratlon i n St.
Petersburg and a strlke of 40,000
wcrkers In the splnnlng mllls.
From that time on up to and after
the Russian revolutiori of 1905—6
May Day demonstrations played their
part i n the devolepment of the Rus­sian
labor movement.
The openlng of the twentleth cen-unlons
evaded the task of a militant t u r / and the Eucces.slve years brought
demonstratlon by ob-servlng the first
Sunday in May, thus evaded
Issue of no v/ork on May Day.
Reformism Emascolates May Day
about the strike whlch was led by that
group of intrepld men who will be
forever remembered as the Chicago
Martyrs. Within three days blood
was fIowing on the streets of ChL
cago. The young. vigorous, brutish
capitaUsm of tbe middle west> act»
I n the successlve years of the
early nlnetteg the institution of May i
Day developed wlth the International
Soclalist movenient. Also the weak-ness
that was i n the Second Inter­national
began early to 6how itself
i n a tendency to rob the day of
Its «Ignificance of class struggle; the
tendency was to transform the de.
mcnstration into mere celebrations of
a "holiday". Nevertheless, the May
Day remalned the annual occasion
for masB moblllzation of the wbridng
class. No longer was i t merely the
City of Chicago, but a l i of the great
cities of the modem world which the
chiefs of the bourgeois govemments
nervously shlftlng their sqads of
' M a y Day demonstrations In the ma-thc
Joiity of countries of Europe. of vary-
" Ing degrees of militancy. I n 1909, in
Buenos Aires, Argentine Republlc, a
May Day demonstratlon was attack-ed
by the armed govemment forces
resulting In many deaths and wound-ed,
and this was foIIowed by a gene­ral
strlke.
And SO on, up to the outbreak pf
the great world war i n 1914.
On May First, 1914. i n Russia, Just
the soclal-democratlc party of Ger­many
made Its May Day declaratton
an appeal to the workirig class to
abstaln from any action.
But the next year In Germany
(1916) saw the great Berlin May
Day demonstratlon led by Karl Lleb-knecht,
durlng whlch LIebknecht wa3
throv,n Into prlson by the Kalser'5
police, In IMtoscov/, f our worker8
were condemned ^ death and execut-cd
for participatlon In a deäionstra-tlon.
The Roislan Revolutlon
The First of May In 1917 found
the flrst pha.se of the Russian revo­lutlon
In full swing wlth the gov-ernment
of the bourgeolsle striving
tp rlde the etorm In the place of the
vanqulshed Czar. The proletariat oi
Petrograd, together wlth the gar-rlson
troops, demonstrated on May
Day for the removal of the Milyu-koff-
Gutchkov Government which had
proclalmed a contlnuatlon of the war.
Two days later blood was shed in a
cJash wlth the reactlonarles.
At the same time In the big dtles
of Germany, great May Day demon­strations
were canied through i n splte
of martlal law, the German working
class youth belng the most actlve In
carrying the demonstratlon through.
May Day Comcs Into Its Own
And slnce the Ru&^lan proletariaa
before the openlng of the war, there revolutlon, May Day has truly come
were varlous armed demonstrations into Its own. The treason of the re-and
a strlke movement. j forml-sts, the necesslty on the part of
the leaders of the social-democratic
parties to function as agents of the
bourgeolsle i n repressing all effecttve
action» of the workIng class, bas lett
the fleld of May Day to the revola*
tinary Commimist Parties and Toung
Ccmmtmist Leagues. May Day, whleh
during the hegemony of the Secocid
International had become a more ot
less meaningless "hoUday" of fIower
wreaths and timid evasions, has come
Into its own as a day of moUUzaäaoof
tbe militant wor]dDg class for the
struggle against capitaUsm.
War May Days
May Day. 1915. marked the openlng
of the Internatloiml Soclalist C o n -
ference at Zimmerwald-^so important
i n the history of the breaklng up ot
the Second International and the
foundlng of the present-day reyolu-mounted
poUce—and sometimcs even j tionary movement. In Mo5cow, 19,-
regimentg of troops and also warship8 000 workers of seventy-four lactories
—durlng the last night of each April went on strlke. The biggest of the so
in antldpatlon at the coming red i Eialiat parties on this day demonstrat^
led its bankniptcy and treason, when
f