Special program for May Day Hosted by Vadim Belotserkovsky. 1. Appeal to American workers by Ukrainian worker Vasyl Stasiv. Last year, this appeal came to the West from samizdat and was published, in which a Ukrainian worker offers his non-trivial understanding of the goals of international workers’ solidarity, and also generalizes the experience accumulated by Soviet workers. The text is read with minor abbreviations. 2. Vladimir Bukovsky "To the First of May" - about the struggle of Soviet workers for the creation of free trade unions. In February 1978, an independent trade union association was created in the USSR, created on the initiative of the Donetsk miner Klebanov. A famous human rights activist speaks to Slavists in West Germany in the fall of 1979.