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Show THE EMPIRE OF LABOR. Daniel Webster once referred to England as that nation whose morning bugle calls, following the sun, encircled encir-cled the globe with a continuous r-formance r-formance of the martial airs of Britain. Bri-tain. Today, not only from east to west, but from north to south of the globe, goes up the pean of May Day, the pledge of labor's International oneness, one-ness, the promise of the onrushlnc revolution. England's boast of a few years ago, "Wo hold a greater empire than has been," shrinks into a hit of schoolboy's school-boy's swagger beforo tho glory of the empire that shall be tho empire of labor. In Japan no Socialist bugle calls may rise; the fate ot Kotoku and his eleven associates Is still too recent re-cent and too grim a memory. In Russia, Rus-sia, ground under the boot of the Czar equipped with its ''beneficent" rubber heel Stolypln, the music of revolution is also for the present stilled. But even there, though dumb to the ear, arises In thought tho hymn of May Day, the hymn of proletarian emancipation. emanci-pation. "The time is out of Joint, O cursed right," is not the language that flows this da' from the mouth of the militant mili-tant Socialist On tho contrary, the words' he utters are words of encouragement, en-couragement, words of determination, words of eagerness for the frav from which the workers of the world shall emerge triumphant over wage slavery. That frav. It is not something corn-ins corn-ins In the future, to be looked for below be-low the horizon with a spy-glass, and Idly waited for. It is here, it is now, it envelopes the workor In his dally llfe. Every minute of his day he Is grappling with the forces that tear the bread from his mouth, tho learning learn-ing from his children, tho comfort from his home. With the reduction of man's wage, the woman and child have been dragged Into the conflict. Tho producing class of the world are today o'ne under exploitation, one in servitude to the masters of the bread, and, thanks to the growing vigor and insistence of Socialist propaganda, fast becoming one In knowledge of the source of their Ills and steadfast constructive con-structive labor to abolish It. Capitalism, wage slavery, must go At a stage of mechanical progress like the present, where sufficient can be produced to render all alike well off, a system whlqh keeps the few in plenty, the mass In want, Is an anomaly, ano-maly, and anomalies have a way of boing wiped opt as soon as thoEe to bo benefited by the act -perceive its possibility EnlHitened by tho Socialist Move ment of the -world, tho embattled workers "of the world this First of May renew their devotion to the cause that shall free them; the caus that shall rear their empire, tho empire em-pire oPlabori on the ruins of the empire em-pire of capitals , |