The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1933, Page 1

15,000 Demonstrate in Philadelphia As March 4th Nears COLLECT FUNDS AT EVERY MEETING! SAVE THE “DAILY”! Entered as socond-ctoss matter Vol. X, No. 47 Tampa Prisoners Call | on Workers to “Keep Own Paper Alive!” Fellow Workers, Friends, Readers of the “DAILY”: Again, our “Daily” is in danger of suspension. You must rush to its help. You must save it once more. You are the only ones which alone have power to keep our “Daily” alive. “We, Tampa class war prisoners,” need your solidarity today, more than ever. Give-us a vivid proof of it. By responding in mass to the call of our “Daily, you have not forgotten us. There is not any other paper who fights for our freedom so tirelessly and deartily as the Daily Worker. In the outside of these prisons, it is our best arm who helps us to win our bread; it is our vanguard who shows us workers the only way out to end forever with our sufferings and star- vation. When we workers are thrown into the bosses’ prisons for our mili- tancy against hunger, terror and imperialist war, it our best friend and defender. It helps us in the very cells in which we are left to rot to keep our’ courage and revolutionary spirit alive, while it mobilizes the working masses throughout the world for demanding our freedom, ‘With Proletarian greetings. Tampa Class War Prisoners. Raiford Pen, you will show us that MARIO LOPEZ. FELIX MARRERO, JIM NINE, | “‘Daily’ My Best Friend,” Writes Connecticut Worker } | | { | | | Meriden, Conn, Dear Editor of the Daily Worker: Your reader, enclosing $2 to the Daily Worker fund, because the Daily| ‘Worker is my best friend in all, I could not go without it. ‘The Daily Worker speaks and fights for me, as I am hit so hard. Don’t know how I'm living; still hanging on to job one week and loafing five.! Our miserable wage twice being cut, living on half-grub, we got to do four times as much production than we did four years ago. Now more speed-up and more machinery. A man used to operate two machines, now four machines. If you use this letter in your paper, don’t use my name. The} mob keeps an eye on me. x. ¥. | 89 Years Old, Sends Donation Conneaut, Ohio. | Dear Comrade Worker:—I am an old man, nearly 89 years old, and I) haven't much money. But I think the life of “The Worker” is worth any| sacrifice I can make. So I enclose $2 to keep it going. | Also, my Chinese laundryman, who also has a hard time making ends} meet, feels the same way, and donates 50 cents for the same purpose. | Yours truly, 1, BARSKY, | ‘Ashamed to Send a Couple of Dollars’ Newark, N. J. Comrades: Pardon my tardiness. I am most ashamed to send you only @ couple of dollars. I promise more. Damn all the other papers. I want my “Daily.” JOSEPH S, GALANE, i ee ¢ Bf > 79a) May We Always Have the ‘Daily’ !’"} Columbus, Ohio. j Daily Worker:—I am sending in 90 cents in stamps for the Daily Worker. | I wish I could do more. I don’t know what we would do without the Daily ‘Worker. May we always have it with us. It is our guide. j MRS, H, VALENTINE. | Quota $10, Yukon Unit Raises $3.95 | Yukon, Pa. Comrades: | Enclosed you will find $2.62 in money order for the following: $1.45 to help save the “Daily” and $1.17 for Daily Worker bundle order. Continue sending Daily Worker bundle. The quota for Yuxon in the “Daily” drive is $10. So far $3.95 has been sent. We are going to do all in our power to save the Daily Worker, Right now we are busy preparing for the State Hunger March. i Comradely yours, veP | “Shenandoah on the Job!Where’s Minersville?” Shenandoah, Pa, | Dear Comrades: Enclosed you will find money order for $6.45 collected at Lyros Choir affair last night. You'll hear from us some more. Shenandoah boys are | on the job raising funds; but where are the Minersville comrades? Comradely yours, 8. REIKANSKAS. From Turtle Creek (Pa.) Lithuanian Group Turtle Creek, Pa, Dear Comrades:— Enclosed please find a check for $3.10 from the Supreme Lodge of Lithuanians of America, Branch 17. Comradely yours, BH. LEVINE. “§USPENSION WOULD BE A CALAMITY NOW” Philadelphia, Pa, Hdivors of the Daily Worker: ‘The suspension of the Daily Worker would be a great calamity, espe- cially faa time, in view of the things that are happening throughout the world. © In early times, when oppressed and exploited peoples rose against their masters, they were in isojated groups, and did not know of their fellow- sufferers in other places. But now the workers can keep in touch with each other and greet their comrades in the remotest parts of the earth. When they do this, and join hands, their power will be irresistable. The Daily Worker helps to unite them, and to bring knowledge and understanding of each other. It also helps many of us who are not directly connected with the labor movement. To those of us who, like Henry Adams, went through college without ever hearing the name of Karl Marx, it is educational, and gives a new and illuminating point of view. It is important to us to sce that it shall not fail. i I enclose $5. Please credit it to the Philadelphia quota ANNA M, W, PENNYPACKER, Central EB 26 New York, N.Y. under the Ast “Expose Waterfront Conditions!” Seaman Writes Dail the Pest Office at of Moreh 6, 1978, oN (Section of the Communist International) y, Worker e-Cominunist Party U.S.A. ORGANIZE A’ HOUSE PARTY FOR THE “DAILY” NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933 2 NEW THREATS AGAINST ‘DAILY’; SPEED AID NOW! L esos the response of the workers enabled the Daily Worker to pay its ink bill—$169.75—to the Hollison Mills, Inc., and prevent the marshal from sellin g its equip- ment. But— Two other emergencies today: 1. Attempt by mortgage ow ners to re- capture seven linotype machines because of lapsed payments to the C.I.T. Corp. 2. Refusal of Irving Trust Co., receivers for R. Hoe and Co., to make repairs on the Daily Worker’s Hoe press due tofailure to pay more than $2,000 for needed repairs. ‘Daily’ has been delayed three or four times every week because of breakdowns. Complete col- lapse threatens, which would mean $20,000 for a new press. =. of these emergencies may cause stoppage of the Daily Worker at any moment. To publish the “Daily” until next week means workers everywhere, but especially in New York and within a day’s run of New York, must rush to its aid. Only unusual sacrifices can now save the “Daily.” We ask: Every reader to borrow money. Agree to repay as you make collections for the “Daily.” Bring funds to the office of the “Daily” today. Outside New York: speed all funds at once by wire or air mail to 50 East 13th Street, New York City. The “Daily” can be saved if every worker acts. EMERGENCY COMMITTEE OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER, Robert Minor William Weiner Cc. A. Hathaway Total to Date $802.21 Received Yesterday $10,683.07 Norfolk, Va, of struggle of both employed and unemployed read, talk and understand it. The EAR COMRADE EDITOR: The mass distribution of the Daily contain- ing the articles on the waterfront is having a tremendous reaction. The merciless exposure and formulation of the grievances and the de- mands of the men on the waterfront is of great significance here. It's the first time it hap- pened here and the waterfront generally is yust roused even the exposures and grievances are be!ng concentrated on one dock. This co-operation on the part of our central organ has aided us in entering the waterfront. ° GET GOOD CONTACTS As a result of the articles and mass dis- tribution, we have succeeded in consolidating @ group on the P. & N, Steamship Line. We have also succeeded in getting good contacts in four other docks that are now in the proves | little doctoring of the articles takes place, be-/ of being organized. It has awakened a spirit canse these fellows write just as the workers’ front, docks on the same page. only a weapon of exposure, but It is.extremely politically important when| weapon for their coming struggles. you are featuring marine news to have a con- waterfront article. WANT EXPOSURES next phase Jongshoremen. It is a very effective method! of the work which must be given attention is to carry local news and stories pertaining to, the following up to logical organirational and conditions of the unemployed and part-time political conclusions, The waterfront workers workers when featuring stories of factories and must be made to see that the Dally is not @ concrete With the further consolidation of our groups crete editorial on the marine situation and) and the preparations for strikes—the “Da‘ly” struggles like the one that appeared a few days must be seen in the light of a strike weapon. ago, only it did not appear the same day as our| Our greatest shortcomings here regarding the | role of the “Daily” and preparing the ground- | work for strikes lies in the fact that we are not using the “Daily” to expose the conditions Once the men on the waterfront get treated| in the scores of other docks—formulating their to this kind of mass exposure, they want more | demands and unifying the mood and struggles of it, We have many workers that want to/of all dock workers in support of isolated st write about conditions and their experiences on|and general economic and political actions. the waterfront and it’s important that very Will write more about these matters later. Suf- | fice to say now we are gaining contacts on this J. : BDITION “The ‘Daily’ -Weapon 79 Against Deportations! Writes Edith Berkman Dp” Comrades? ¢ SAVE THE Price 3 Cents | DAILY WORKER—OUR WEAPON | AGAINST DEPORTATIONS! February 27th will be two years since my arrest for dea portation for ie to the mass protest org: Were 6 deportatiory the press, working Daily Worker For the last two years the has mobilized of workers, all through the country, agi ¢ the persecution of foreign-born and for mj lease. The forw eign-born workers most certainly must rally to the support of the Daily Worker. Whe prints appeals for the defense of working-class prisoners? Who demands the bonus for the soldiers of 1917? Who demands ; relief and unempio; for the Pee Sean 16,000,000 unemplo who supports al the strike struggles of the employed? To all these ¢ jons there is one and only one answer—the Daily Worker, the central organ of th Communist Party! Now our paper, the Daily Worker, is in danger of suspension no funds to continue publication. Will we permit the “Daily” to die’ No , thousand times, NO! ‘The campaign of the Daily Worker for $35,000 is a campaigr worker. Native or foreign-born, Negro or white—all workers and organizations must raise funds for our Daily. Save the Daily Worker from suspension! Collect funds and subscriptions for the “Daily’! Organize Daily Worker readers’ clubs! | Comradely, Tt has every vorkers’ EDITH BERKMAN “Don't Like to See It Go Under,’ Farmer Writes Sending Dollar Nampa, Idaho, GENTLEMEN OF THE’ DAILY WORKER, DEAR SIRS:— I see by the Daily Worker you are getting short of funds to run the paper. I am living 4 mijes out in the country, and haven't learned to run a car yet, but I have been reading your paper, and don't like to see it go under just yet, so I will send in e dollar to help it along. I was in to a farmers’ meeting the other day, and they seem to talk quite different than they did 3 or 4 years ago. I think this depression will bring them to it, the farmers will find out that they'll have to get in and help to break it up. Yours truly, i W. W. WILLARD. “Only Too Glad to Help” Casey, Llinois Comrade Editor: ‘ My funds are very limited. indeed, but as the Daily Worker is also ir financial straits, I feel 'that even an amount as small as a dollar wilt help a mite. If it were at all possible, I would. be only too glad to send more. I will do my best to send another 100 cents at the earliest possible moment, Comradely yours, AL STOHR, From a Cleveland Block Committee Cleveland, Ohio, Deer Comrades: In the name of the East 78th St. Block, Cleveland, Ohio, I am sending you $2,00 in money order as a donation to the Daily Worker, Unemployed Council, East 78th St. Block, STANLEY CHESNICK, Secretary. A , “Only Real Working Class Paper” Mulino, Oregon, Dear Comrades: Please find enclosed money order for $2 as a donation to the only real working-class paper. The donation is from the Workers’ Struggle Comradely, and Study Club of Muline HENRY MATSON, | Milions Need the ‘Daily’ to Carry On!” | Hamilton, Ohio, { Enclosed find $2 for the Daily Worker fund. God knows I need the $2, but millions need the Daily Worker to carry on the enlightenment of the workers. Cc. SMITH, FUNDS CAN BE RAISED, SAYS CHICAGO WORKER Chicago, Til. | | Comrade Editor: " About a year ago I decided to donate $1 per month to the Daily Worker sustaining fund. My New Year's resolution was to continue the same ace tivity. So far I have not failed. The enclosed $2 is a “free lance” contribution to the $35,000 fund. Workers donating are as follows: T. D., 50 cents; C. B., 25 cents, W. S., $1.25. In the ten years thet I have been working at this place I have: never seen any representative of the Party attempt to make as much as @ col~ lection for the Daily Worker. Months fly by before one even runs into ® literature agent on the street. If I want.to buy “The Communist” or the “Communist International” I must spend 14 cents carfare, providing I have the time. I work in the afternoons and evenings, seven days a week. I feel quite certain that many pennies, nickels and dimes could be raised for the Daily Worker in this lodging house district if someone coulé be persuaded to canvass each individual personally and in @ quiet manner, Most sitting rooms are crowded during the winter months. West Madison St. has been a revolutionary stronghold for years. In this district the Hay~ market Riot occurred. So let's go! Let’s feather our own nest by putting Chicago over the top in this drive! Comradely ws.