The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21
BIC TAG DAY IN
new YORK FOR
GERMAN NEEDY
Local Has Already
Raised $4,000.

The workers of New York will
rally for the tag days on Saturday
and Sunday, April 26 and 81, to col
lect for German relief. On that day
collections will be made in the
streets to aid the suffering working
class of Germany, and to show inter-
national solidarity and the spirit OF
self-help of the workers. Volunteers
are needed for the collections. There
must be no slackers IN this great
work to save the whole working
class of Germany. Let the children
also come and take part in the work
so as to help the little boys and girls
Of Germany who are in such terri
BILE need.
The New York section Of the Com
mittee for International Workers
Aid has collected $4,000 up to date;
but our New York comrades are not
contented with this amount and
they want to go still further in aid
of our German brothers and sisters.
The Committee for International
Workers Aid is the American
branch of the Internationale eAr-
better Hilfs Komitee which organ
lied and directed an immense relief
work in Soviet Russia during the IA
mine. This organization helped the
Japanese workers after the earth
quake, this is the International
workers organization, that express
sion of world solidarity of the work
ers, ready to extend material help
wherever it is needed.
Many Public Kitchens.
Now all the work is concentrated
on relief of the German working
class. SO far 120 public kitchens
have been opened in Germany, and
thousands Of working men, women
and children are fed, children's
homes are being maintained, more
than thousand children have been
sent to foreign countries for cure.
Help is extended to unemployed
workers, to workers on strike,
clothes are distributed, gift-packages
stre disbursed. But all this is not
enough to meet the terrible need ex-
listing in Germany. The hot summer
days are coming and with them suf-
fering and danger of epidemics. Dis
ease is rampant in Germany. The
children are the greatest sufferers.
Thousands of school children come
to school without having eaten any
ahsf1~av.
eat no warm meal day; many chill
dren are kept from school because
they are too weak for study. The |
children Of the poor have no UNDER
wear and no change of clothing. The
providers Of millions Of children are
unemployed and many more are
on part time work. There are not |
enough beds in the hospitals for the |
tubercular children.
Workers Mus, Help.
The workers must help, for no
one else will help. If the American |
congress votes relief for Germany it |
only serves as a means for a Her
bert Hoover to organize the counter
revolution In that country as was |
done in Hungary and in Russia.
The workers of Germany are fight |
ing against starvation, unemploy-
ment, against the twelve-hour day, |
against their own capitalists and the |
capitalists of the world, against the |
counter-revolution monarchist plots, |
against Socialist betrayal in con-
nivance with Fascism, against mill |
tary dictatorship. On the backs of |
the German workers are the finan-
ciers, the industrial barons, the spec
ulators, the big landowners, the gen.
erals, the monarchists, armies OF in
vasion, the whole band of enemies |
thirsty for the blood of the workers.
The working class or Germany re-
treated before the enemy. Shall it |
retreat still further? Shall it be
forced to go down in defeat? Or will |
the workers of all countries rush to |
their aid?
Let the tag days of Saturday and |
Sunday, April 26 and 81, in New
York be blow against the internal |
and external enemies OF the German
workers, blow against the enemies |
of the proletarian revolution of Ger
many, against world reaction. Let
the tag days be a demonstration of |
international working class solidar-
ity.