The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
There Was Significance
In the Fact That $4,000
Attended "Freiheit" Jubilee
BY J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.


den in celebration of its Fifth Anniversary last Satur
day night
1h the greatest hrong of workers ever assembled
IN the United States at the call Of a revolutionary pub
LEGATION of the American working class OF course, the
reactonary of labor attempt such gather
ings on any scale. 1t remained for organ of Com
munsm and the left wing in the labor movement to fill
the largest auditorium in the land.
This gathering had tremendous significance 1t was
testimony to the fact that not only The Freiheit but
Workers (Communist) Party we'll, have become
the leaders of the masses in the needle trades.
For several years The Frehet struggled desperately
and it unable to total a circulation in the whole
nation equang the numbers in the mighty throng shat
Joined in celebration Of its Fifth Anniversary Those
$4,000 workers constitute the firm base that The Fret
heit has established for itself in New York City,
strengthening for greater efforts in other sections of
the land, according to plans already made and to be
executed Immediately.
The vicious attacks by the reactionary labor Of
fcialdom have not succeeded in alternating the workers
from their support of Our Paper and Our Party Pres
dent William Green and Vice President Matthew Vol,
with the laekeys in the needle tradesthe Sigmans the
Schachtmans and the rest-mght well to consider
the meaning of this outpouring of labor in New York
and vicinity in support of the Press and the Party that
they so vehemently denounce.
If these agents of American imperialism had followed
the proceedings at the Frehet Jubilee they would have
heard the appeals made these workers. and their en-
thusiastc response to those pleas, which as fol-
lows:
1. To build The DAILY WORKER, the official organ
Of the Workers (Communist) Party, published in the
English language
O. To rally in aid of the Ruthenberg Enrolment
Drive, not only by joining the Workers (Communist)
Party but by getting other workers to join the party
and strengthen its ranks
s. To stand solid adamant the left wing in the
needle trades and to give every possible support to the
militant workers in all other industries to the coal
miners engaged IN giant struggle the railroad
workers the steel workers. the automobile workers. the
rubber workers as well as labor in the other great in
dustries.
A. To render every possible support to the struggle
against imperialism in Nicaragua, in Mexico and in
China especially speeding the fraterna greetings the
gathering the Central Council of the Chinese Trade
Unions to the Kuomintang and to the Communist Party
Of China
Thus New York labor only declared its solidarity
with the workers turnout the land but their will
tc battle with those oppressed by American Imperialism
cementng their strength in closer bond of fraternity
with the valiant efforts of the Chinese workers the
other side of the earth.
When $4,000 workers go back into their shops and
into their union meetings, they should be inspired to
here seethng of sympathy in support of
the Far East front of the revolutionary struggle of
labor.
1t recognized that the working class in the United
States is probably less responsive the rapidly deve
oping events in the Orient, than the workers of any
other nation Encouraging gatherings under the slogans
of Hands Off China!" "Wthdraw the Battleshps
From Chinese Waters have already been held in many
cities, in to the appeal of Our Party thru
cooperation of Party with other forces That the
movement is growing, however, is well indicated by the
fact that the $4,000 workers gathered in New York to
celebrate the growth and spreading of influence of the
Freihet should also be profoundly stirred by Chinas
revolutionary struggle.
The standards of The DAILY WORKER were held
aloft by practically every speaker The prophecy was
generally made that the time would come when
The DAILY WORKER would be able to hold its anniver-
celebration in the Madison Square Garden and at
tract similar hosts of labor.
Not only Jay Lovestone Acting General Secretary Of
Our Party Ben Gitlow and NJ j. Olgin but other speak
well aroused great enthusiasm by calling for
every possible support of the Partys Official Organ
that being published in New York City
Like the Freihet the Party has grown in New York
City. When The Frehet established the Workers
(Communist) Party only few months old. There
was considerable skeptcism in the early months of
1922, whether the Communist movement, driven under
ground by the Palmer raids in 1920 could function
cessfuy in the OPEN In those days speakers appealed
seldom for Party members at the meetings that
held. One speaker that failed to make this
appeal, however, late leader c. E. Ruthenberg.
1t fitting, therefore, that applause in thunder
tones should greet the plea for Members for the Work
(Communst Party!" in the Ruthenberg Enrolment
Drive The Party has become living, fighting giant
in the eyes Of these workers Its leadership is treas
ured.
1t has been said that great masses of workers have
been driven to The Frehet result of the growing
hatred Of the workers for The Forward the yellow
calist organ of reformsm, edited by Abraham Cahan.
This is held up argument that these workers
yet Communists, not yet ready for membership in
the Communist Party, and that turn of the tide
may cause them TO again drift from
But hatred of The Forward as the traitor organ Of
Socialism, is the beginning Of awakening that will
gradually lead to a correct understanding Of the Com
unist program, and make OF these workers intelligent
Of he social revolution.