The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-20
WORKERS SCHOOL
TO RAISE $4,000
Units Spur Efforts in
Big Campaign
Continued on Page TaOo)
success in order that the work of
the school may be expanded.


the school may be expanded.
The "Red Banquet"
Throughout District Workers
Party units are directing their efforts
towards the "Red Banquet" which
will be given at the Workers Center
Friday evening, April 81, to cele-
brate the establishment of the new
home of the revolutionary movement.
! The banquet is now only week away
and militant workers are urged to
purchase their tickets at once, as only
a limited number of guests can be
accommodated. Tickets are on sale
at $1.25 each at 1928 Union Square
and 1o8 E. 14th ST.
AS the pace of the $4,000 drive
intensifies, new contributions are COM
ing in even greater numbers.
Among the units who brought dona-
tons yesterday are: 2B-2F, $50 in
cash, $54 in pledges; 2E-1F, $50 in
cash; 9D-3F, 1872; 9D-5F, SIT; SD-6F,
SIP; 2D-2F, $50; Section s, Branch
6, s7s in cash, $500 in pledges; Sec
ton 4, Unit B, $106.
An unusually good showing was
made by the membership of 1AC-7F
and 1AC-1F, which held joint meet
ing addressed by Ella Wolfe. lac
IF collected $55 in cash and pledged
$105. 1AC-7F collected $128. The
quotas Of each of these units is $160,
and since these were initial contribu-
tons, the members feel confident of
surprising the required sums.
Spur To Education
The establishment of the Workers
Center will act as tremendous spur
to workers education, D. Benjamin,
assistant director of the Workers
School, declared yesterday.
"The facilities of the Workers
School, which will occupy the entire
fifth floor of the new building, will
be so greatly increased" he said,
chat every phase of the schools
work will be benefited and it's in
fluence will be extended to include
larger and larger masses of workers.
cat present we have six Mlass-
rooms, an office and a library. In
the Workers Center we will have nine
rooms, all Of them larger than the
present ones, including office, a
library twice as large as our present
library, study room and a student
council room. Our capacity will thus
be 100 per cent greater than at pres
ept. In addition, six of the rooms
will have sliding doors, making pos
sible their conversion into an audi
forum. seating. between 800 and GOO.
Largest Communist School
"The WeIkers School now has about
1900 students and is the largest
Communist school in the world out
side of the Soviet Union, according
to the agitprop department of the
Communist International. 1t is also
the only school which is self-sup-
porting. But despite the fact that
cur school is in thriving state and
is real training field for the class
struggle, we are greatly hampered
by the physical conditions Of our
present quarters, which do not permit
us to function properly and to ex-
pand.
"All those physical difficulties will
be done away with in the new build
ing. Next fall we expect registra-
ton of 1000 students and we will
be able adequately to take care Of
all of them. Thus the Workers
School will become an increasingly
greater force in the revolutionary
movement, molding the fighters that
are in the front-line of the class
struggle.