The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
MAY DAY MEET TO
WELCOME Center
Will Renew Drive For
$4,000 Today

ItiOuN1t4OO VI WI
the city will today officially well
come the establishment of the
Workers Center, 1928 Union So, at
the May Day demonstration at Mad
ison Square Garden, which has been
arranged by District 2, Workers
(Communist) Party in cooperation
with progressive trade unions and
sympathetic workers organizations.
The May Day demonstration will
also be the occasion for the intensive
launching of the second half of the
drive for $4,000 to purchase and
finance the new Workers Center.
The militant workers of this city
and vicinity will be called upon to
make even greater efforts than be-
fore to secure the sum required to
establish this new home of the re-
volutionary movement. The drive
ends M8y IS and the largest part of
the $4,000 is yet to be collected.
Many Contribute at Banquet
Many Workers Party units added
to their totals by contributing at
the banquet last Friday night.
Generous contributions were also re-
ceived from a large number of SYM
pathetic labor organizations and
from individuals. Many of the con-
tributions were in the form of
pledges and the board of directors
of the Workers Center asks that
these pledges be paid at once as a
large payment on the building must
be made within a few days.
The totals for all the Workers
Party sections in New York up to
and including Friday night are:
Section 1, S1,146.1O; Section 2,
$76o5o; Section 8, $732.75; Section
4, S485.75; Section s, 1920; Section
6, SITS; Section 7. $113; Section s,
1912, and the Yonkers Section,
$84. The figures for the Long Is
land Section are not yet complete,
but this section has almost raised
its entire quota in the drive. The
Workers School has contributed
$550.34. Its quota is $4,000.
Workers Organizations
Contributions of sympathetic
workingclass organizations thus far
are: Educational Society of Ukrain-
ian Working Women, SIS; Coopera-
tive Trading Association, 500;
Workmen's Circle, Branch 548, $25;
Window Cleaners Union, $40; Chin
csc Fraction, $40; Bronx Jewish
Workers Club, SITS; Ukrainian
Labor Club, S25; United Council of
/ Eorkingclass Women, No. IL, $40;
Art Workers Cooperative Studio,
/ 5000; East Flatbush Workers Club,
SIS; United Council of Workingclass
Women, No. 90, $40; Workmen's
Circle, Branch 1875, SIS; United Coun-
ell Of Workingclass Women, No. 10,
SIS; Trade Union Educational
League, Local 2, $40; United Council
of Workingclass Women, No. Z, $40.
United Council of Workingclass
Women, Bakers Council, SIS; United
Council of Workingclass Women, No.
8, $50; United Council of Working
class Women, No. 2, S25; Progress
sive Teachers Club, $25; Brick
layers Progressive Club, $40; Work
mems Circle, Odessa Branch 225,
SIS; Progressive Carpenters Club,
$40; New York Council of the I'm
employed, SIS; Workmen's Circle,
Branch 625, $50; and the Young
Workers League of Brownsville, $26.
Among the individuals that con-
tributed at the banquet were:
Hyman Wolf, $3.50; Leo King, $500;
jacques Buitenkant, $50; Rose
Baron, $25 and Harry Fox, $25.
Miners Showing Way!
An example of unusual sacrifice
was shown by a group of striking
miners, who despite the fact that
they are daily faced with starvation
in the bitter struggle against the
united front of the coal operators
and the union bureaucracy, con-
tributed IS.