The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-01
new KITCHEN
FOR RELIEF
OF CHILDREN
Arrange c cert for
Strike Relief
BY J. o. 5ENTALL.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

NEW YOhNJ ApTkl Eo-FNe LnouS-
and men and women of the working
class gathered in Union Square Satur-
day In response to call by the United
Council of Working class Women for
the purpose Of helping to get another
Strikers Children Kitchen started In
Passaic, and the great throng gave
vent by prolonged cheers to their feel
ines as the story of the strike and of
the relief was told.
Kate Gitlow, secretary of the ma
tional council, was the first speaker.
She related how the -women had gone
to the aid of the mothers now on
strike and helped to feed their chill
dren so that the fight against the
bosses might go on vigorously and be
brot to a successful close. "All work
ing class housewives should be inter
ested in this great undertaking" said
Mrs. Gitlow. 1--WE are now feeding
from three to five hundred children
everyday in Passaic, and We must
have another kitchen so we can feed
at least a thousand children while
this strike lasts. And when we get
the second kitchen going we want to
establish the third and If necessary a
fourth"
Strikers Satisfied.
There is one outstanding feature in
the Passaic strike" said j. o. Bentall,
the next speaker, who has been in
Passaic all since the strike started,
and that is that the workers have
been fed and their children have been
fed. At the very beginning of. the
strike the bosses said that they would
starve the workers back, but the work
ing class and especially the organized
workers told the barons that this time
they would find themselves mistaken.
In all the history Of the. American la
Dor movement there has never been
a more generous response to the call
for help than in this strike. / have
asked hundreds of strikers, especially
the women, as they have come for
their relief cards or as they have come
to get them renewed, if they are get
ting enuf and they always reply that
they have all they need and that they
hear of no one who is complaining"
Ray Bennett acted as chairman and
she said that if the women take up
the work of relief in other places as
enthusiastically as the housewives of
New York and Passaic have done
there will be no hunger during strikes.
Praises Housewives.
ROLAND Gibson of the American
Civil Liberties Union told of the sol
idarity of the workers in Passaic, and
complimented the housewives on their
fine support for the children. When
the children are fed the strikers can
hold out almost indefinitely" he said.
Jack Statchel and Rebecca Grecht
urged the working class housewives to
get into the council and showed the
need of this organization not only for
relief in times of strike but to force
better living conditions for all the
working class families that are suffer
ing much under the tyranny Of cap
italism.
Aid for the new kitchen in Passaic
may be sent to Childrens' Kitchen,
care of Relief Committee, TAB Main
Ave, Passaic, n. j.
The demonstration at Union Square
shows how widespread is the interest
in the splendid struggle the workers
of Passaic are engaged in.
Concert for Relief.
The Passaic strikers will benefit by
an unusually fine May Day entertain
ment which will take place at Car
negie Hall, Saturday, May LIST, at 2:30.
The New Symphony Orchestra Of
New York, an organization of seventy
five men, will make its first appear
ance, conducted by DR.. Sigfrid Prayer,
well known in Europe and South
America as a conductor and pianist of
skill. Max Bloch, Metropolitan Opera
House tenor, Dorothy Adrian, soprano,
and Elsie Kirchgessner, pianist, will
be the soloists. The program includes
numbers by Lisz, Tschaikowsky
Wagner, Catalani, Golmark, Flotow,
Boito, and Wolf-Ferrari.
Besides the musical program, Nor
man Thomas, who was arrested and
spent the night in Jail in Passaic, and
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who has been
active in the Passaic strike since the
beginning will speak. Arturo Giovan-
nitti, general secretary OF the Italian
chamber of labor, will be welcomed
back to the city after long absence,
and will act as chairman.
The affair will be held under the
auspices of the Emergency Committee
for Strikers Relief and the Italian
Chamber of Labor. Tickets from 75c.
to $3.50 may be bought at the Rand
School, II Nuovo Monde, Italian Cham
Der of Labor, Civic Club, or Carnegie
Hall. The entire proceeds of the affair
will be donated to the Passaic strikers.