The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-16
Boston Capmakers Plan
Celebration Saturday Of
Their 40 Hour Victory
By ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.


the workday is shortened.
Judge Ebert H. Gary the steel trust head who died
Monday morning, used as one of his arguments IN
favor of the 12hour day. that 1t would keep the work.
ers out of mischief"
In the days before prohibition was supposed to have
dried up the Saloons charged that the shorter
workday would workers to spend time around
the grogshops. fact the fewer the hours OF labor
the for labor in the eyes of the open shop" ex
ploiters.
This propaganda even captured the minds of large
numbers of workers. who feared that shorter work
day meant lower wages helping in part to cripple the
effort for the shorter day of toll Nevertheless the
movement has made progress
It is significant that this Saturday afternoon, the
progressves in the Capmakers' Union, in Boston,
planning to play hosts to all the progressives in the
needle trades in the metropolis of Fuller, Thayer and
the other woudbe murderers of Nicola Sacco and Bar
toomeo Vanzetti, at 40-hour week celebration to be
held at Camp Nitgedeiget, Franklin, Mass.
The Capmakers' Union this spring the 40-hour
week in Boston, The progressive capmakers believe
that the 4O-hour week be by all the other work
the needle trades, they trying to get them
together this Saturday, to talk it and plan for this
new advance the industrial battlefield.
Camp Nitgedeget Don't Worry is itself the best
answer to the employers fraudulent dread that the
workers will know what do with their spare time.
The 4O-hour, fve-day week means Saturday off, as
well as Sunday. 1t means one more day in the open.
Another day recuperate from the ravages of TOLL that
makes the worker victim of the many occupationa dis
that hover like buzzards seeking their prey about
every industry
Camp Nitgedeiget perched on one of the highest
spots the entire state of Massachusetts, looking off
over Uncas and giving exercising view of far
away hills, is born out of conditions arising from two
days rest in
1t is % miles as the automobiles go, from the prison
cells that hold Sacco and Vanzetti to Camp Nitgedeget
But there closer relation, because Sacco and Van
Zett sought win of the joys of recreation and
education that The Camp makes possible for the less
favored the unorganzed workers in the great New Eng
land industries of shoes and textiles.
felt this close relation 1 journeyed from Boston
to "The Camp" become of the speakers at last
Sundays celebration of the progress that "The Camp
has made.
Camp Nitgedeiget is the first effort of the United
Workers Cooperative Association that brought in
to being at conference of 20 workers organizations
held last Feb. o. in Boston. Less than four months
later 'The Camp" was opened, on June 18th 1t now
has more than 400 members drawn from the Workers
(Communst) Party, many trade unions the Workmen S
Circle and other similar organizations
There 95 in all, with 81 acres of lake and
the in open field and dense woods, strong scented
with evergreens.
During the summer many workers have come to Camp
Ntgedeiget and given voluntarily of their labor in the
construction of spacious and comfortable cottages in
the clearing away of timber in the building of roads in
performing the multudes of tasks that transform wild
place in the open into comfortable place of recreation
for thousands It estimated that 1000 visited "The
Camp" last Sunday many to remain thruout the week.
Meyer Birnbaum chairman of the board of directors,
presided at the days program, For the purpose of
gatherings of this kind stage has been erected high
a rock to be faced side by natural amphi-
theater Israel Kutisker spoke behalf of the Jewish
Bureau of the Workers (Communist) Party; S. D.
Levine, for The Frehet Sol Friedman for Workman's
Circle No. 49, Fanny Aissen, secretary, for the Moth
ers League while Sarah Eel Yelin read the camp hymn,
"Nitgedeiget," that has been set to music by Harry
Rosen, who is graduating out of 'The Pioneers into
the Young Workers League.
brought the greetings of the Workers (Communist)
Party and of The DAILY WORKER. The message was
warmly greeted altho perhaps the majority of those in
attendance non-party members. But they were
close sympathzers. The days attendance consd-
cred triumph in view of the fact that the right wing
have established camp of their and had ex-
erted considerable effort draw large crowd to their
opening this day.
1t not difficult to impress upon this audience the
necessity of participation in the cooperative movement
generally. They were convinced co-operators.
Yet they happy hear Of the role the cooper
alive movement is playing in the reconstruction in
the Union of Soviet Republics On the other hand,
pointed out that under Mussolin in Italy, the cooper
alive movement, well the trade unions and the
party, had been outlawed by fascism.
The ruling class fears the bona fide cooperative
movement of the working class, and already Camp
Ntgedeget has been raded by the boodhounds of the
ThayerFuler punderbund, hunting for evidence with
which to dscredit labors miltants especially in the
needle trades unions,
1t of the long tables of the huge dining
that again met William Seligman, chairman of
Capmakers' Local Union No. 7, who had spent last
Tuesday in company with Jacob Miller president of the
had been charged in the press with being implicated in
the bomb blasts in New York City The police had fol-
lowed what then considered hot trai to "The Camp
where Miller and Selgman had spent the previous Sun
: Sc -t;o of