International May Day and American Labor Day / A Holiday Expressing Working Class Emancipation Versus a Holiday Exalting Labor's Chains

This pamphlet contrasts international May Day with the United States Labor Day, arguing that May Day symbolizes working-class emancipation while the U.S. holiday celebrates accommodation to capitalist control. It traces economic and political concentration—mechanization, corporate consolidation, and the erosion of independent livelihoods—that has produced a mass proletariat, and insists that political gains are ineffective without the power of organized industrial unions. The author critiques reformist and narrowly trade-unionist approaches and advocates class-conscious, collective industrial organization as the route to systemic change.