The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23

Meetings
WORKERS SCHOOL.
OPENS DRIVE TO.
RAISE $4,000.
Raise $4,000 at Student
Banquet in New York

NEW YORK, Feb 21- $4,000 in
cash and pledges were raised at the
banquet given by the students and
friends of the Workers School to
open their drive for a $4,000 fund,
and an additional $1,000 were pledged
by B. Brodsky to the school, provid-
ed it raises the $500, necessary to
complete the $4,000 fund, by March
a. the final date set for the drive.
The, ample banquet hall was so
badly overcrowded that it was neces-
sary to hire an additional hall to feed
the many friends of the school that
came to rally to its support, and amid
scenes of the greatest enthusiasm
and good fellowship, the sum of $4,000
was raised in the single evening. This
is a political event of the greatest
Importance in the history of the
Workers (Communist) Party because
it marks the growing mass support
that the Workers School and the type
of class struggle education that the
party offers is awakening in the ranks
of the organized workers of the city
of New York.
Make History,
"This night, you have made his
tory" said Robert Minor, one of the
speakers at the banquet Your splen-
did drive, which marks the proletarian
mass support that the Workers
School has won for itself in the city
of New York is an epOch-making
event in the sense that it is the be-
ginning of the end of capitalist ide-
ology and yellow socialist perversion
of Marxism in the American labor
movement"
About 10 o'clock in the evening,
Alexander Trachtenberg, chairman of
the banquet, introduced the director
of the school, Bertram d. Wolfe. He
told briefly about the aims and the
significance of the Workers School
in the movement for real working
class education in the United States
and about the needs of the school.
"Our school represents challenge
to those so-called workers education
movements that wish to bring bour-
geois culture to the working class
thru the aid of bourgeois professors.
We challenge also such institutions as
the Rand School which combines
courses in appreciation of music, IL
terary criticism and aesthetic dancing
with gross perversions of socialist
economics, politics and philosophy.
Have No Illusions.
"Nor do we hold the illusion that is
held by Watonites and Boudinites and
Loreites that the American masses
will learn thru formal education in
the class room. There are those who
think that the class struggle is so
called because it is to be fought out
in class room. We know that the
masses learn thru the hard road of
experience, of laundering and the cor
recting of blunders. But we know
that the ignorant, incompetent and
even treacherous leadership that the
American working class has had, have
made that path harder and we know
that we can shorten it by preparing
a new leadership for the American
working class that is schooled in
Marxist-Leninist economies, politics
and the theory and tactics of the
labor movement. When you befriend
the school, you are helping to give
such leadership to the American work
ing class"
The Drive Begins.
After several of the students told
of the value of the schools education
to them and the needs of the school,
Moissaye ]. Olgin opened the appeal
for funds. He called for a substan-
tial contribution and $500 from A.
Goodman answered his call. Follow
cd a pledge Of $500 from Eugene
Schoen, a check for 800 from Bishop
Brown, a check for $3.50 from Edward
Royce and then $500 from B. Brodsky
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