The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-09
Especial to The Daily worksr)

NEW YORK CITY, (By Mail -
Five hundred New York DAILY
WORKER builders, gathered in
celebration of the progress they are
making in the nations metropolis,
made history for the American
Communist press during the July
Fourth holidays. The merry-mak-
ing took place at the three-day en-
campment at Eaton's Neck, far out
on Long Island Sound, and its sue
cessful ending is the forerunner of
greater attempts for the immediate
future.
Building The DAILY WORKER
in New York City is punctuated
with these inspiring affairs of "The
Builders" Last year it was an
excursion up the Hudson River. In
mid-winter it was The DAILY
WORKER Builders concert and
banquet. And now the most am
bilious of all, an escape for hun
dreds of workers from the confines
of the great city, and a jollification
over the fact that they are steadily
irresistibly advancing their press
against the most powerful battal-
ions of the kept organs of enemy
capitalism.
More than ever this DAILY
WORKER Builders affair took on
the nature of an expression of the
growing left wing in the labor move
ment.
There were large delegations
among the Builders from the Fur
riers' Union, the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union,
The Capmakers' Union, the Food
Workers Union and the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers Union,
with the Passaic Textile strikers
we'll represented, and a scattering
from a score of trades and indus
tries. Workers were present from
neighboring Connecticut, and as far
distant as Boston, Mass.
Everywhere was voiced the need.
for an Englishlanguage daily in
New York City, to voice the strug-
gle of the workers that RACES with
a growing intensification. The Fur
riers' strike comes to an end but
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union takes up the cud-
gel of battle, with the subway work
ers of the Interboro Rapid Transit
Co. also entering the arena of COM
bat against their bosses.
But the vision of these workers,
who sang s'The international" and
'The Red Flag" so Justify every
night about the roaring campfires,
spreads far beyond the industries To-
Gated on Manhattan Island and its
adjacent territory.
Not far away are the great an
thracite coal fields and overnight is
Pittsburgh, the capital city of steel,
and these workers who are build
ing their own power in New York
City see the steel mills and the pit
mouths of the coal mines beyond
their own sewing machines. That
is the realization that grows on
one thru mingling with and talking
to them.
That is the basis on which they
drive on for the building of The
DAILY WORKER, in the English
language in addition to support CIV
en- the foreign-language labor dailies
the (Jewish) Freiheit, the (Ukrain-
lam Daily News, the (Hungarian)
Elore, the (Russian) Novy Mir, the
Lithuanian) Laisve, among others.
Thus The DAILY WORKER
Builder who leads on the ION to
Moscow" subscription drive is Ar
thur Smith, a Hungarian worker,
who goes to workers of all nation
alities to get the subs" When the
speeches were being made by the
leading Builders" before the en-
campment throng, relating how the
speakers were able to do it, Smith
was down on the waterfront taking
care Of the rowboats. Builders"
know of more ways than one to en-
list sentiment for their DAILY" 9th
err leaders In the "sub" drive, who
quit their encampment work long
enough to tell the 500 of their sub
getting activities were Leo King,
II. F. Minis and Louis Hirschman,
whose names have already become
familiar to the Builders" OF the
nation. Samuel Lebowitz was
caught in his bathing suit, but he
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