The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-16
Nitgedaiget: A Cooperative Rest Home

take care OF I9O campers, With &C
commodations for the winter, too.
The camp is constantly being i'm
proved and this year 70 modern
bungalows supplemented the 800
tents, with bungalows scheduled to
replace all the tents next year. And
a camp that is run by and for work
ers necessarily does away with the
profiteering and dishonesty of the
commercial camps. Fresh food,
lodging and a camp life that in
cludes a variety of activities are
provided for SIT a week-about
half the rate of the socialist"
Camp Tamiment.
And there are activities such as
can never be found at the CONNER
cial camps, activities in which the
collectivist mass spirit predomin-
ates. Great emphasis is laid on the
cultural expression of the working
class spirit. Every Saturday night
a working-class play, written, per-
formed and staged by the campers
themselves, is produced under the
direction of Jacob Mestel, director
of the Freheit Dramatic Studio and
an actor of many years experience.
Plays such as these are unique in
this country and their counterpart
can be found only in the Soviet
Union.
During the present season themes
such as the coal strike, the elections
and colonization in Soviet Russia
have been dealt with in dramatic
form. Last Saturday satirical
sketch, telling the story of the con-
version of camper who insists on
worrying at the Don't You Worry
camp, was produced This was
written by B. Fenster, who is also
the editor of the Camp Vat, the
humorous weekly paper that is
read every Friday night at the
campfire.
And for those campers who can
sing, or think they can, there is the
chorus, coached by the musical d.
rector, l.. Malamut, who numbers
among his other accomplishments the
ability to make an accordion sound
almost like symphony orchestra.
Athletics finds Yossel Rashkovich,
the agile and spirited athletic direc-
tor, keeping everyone, even the ell
derby and portly, on the move.
And Nitgedaiget has it's own daily
paper, edited and written almost en-
tirely by Paul Novick, a member
of the staff of the Freiheit, for sew
eral weeks and now by L. Talmy.
the Potent" as it is called, makes
no pretence at competing with other
Communist newspapers, but con-
fines itself rigidly to life at Camp
Nitgedaiget. 1t is four-page.
typewriter wall paper and every
morning the campers may be found
gathered in groups before the vari-
Gus places where it is hung up.
reading and discussing the latest
news. "The Potent" is a complete
newspaper, containing editorials,
news stories, special articles and
cartoons, with the light touch pre-
dominating. The editor gave evil
dence of his excellent news and po-
litical sense last Sunday when he
devoted his leading editorial to the
coming of Robert Minor to the camp.
Lectures are another important
part of the cultural activities, and
among those who have spoken at
the camp this summer are Bert
Miller, J. O. Bentall, Ray Ragozin
and A. Markoff.
All these are class activities, part
of the class struggle of the Ameri-
can workers. Nitgedaiget offers no
escape from that struggle. The
Daily Worker and Freheit, which
together with the platform of the
Workers (Communist) Party are
sold during meals, as we'll as at the
camp store, will not let the camp
ers forget the battles of their class.
The camp activities, made of the
very stuff of these battles, will not
let them forget. And Daily Worker
Week will not let them forget. For
Nitgedaiget is determined to 60
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