The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-26
HOLD BANQUET AT
WORKERS CENTER
TOMORROW EVE.
300 Organizations To Be
Represented

lam w. WelnStone, ROBERT Minor,
Jack Stachel, Bert Miller, Juliet
Stuart Poyntz, Scott Nearing, Ben
Gold, Meilich Epstein and others.
To Serve Full Course Meal.
The gastronomic end of the banquet
will be in charge of Proleteos, and a
full course meal viii be served. Pro-
letcos also announces that it has con-
tributed $500 to the campaign to
raise $4,000 to finance the acquisi-
ton of the Workers Center. Decora-
tons for the banquet are being ar
ranged by Hugo Gellert and Adolf
Wolff.
The banquet will mark the high
point of the $4,000 drive, and all
Workers Party units throughout Dis
trict are bending their efforts to-
wards making their totals as high as
possible for the event. The following
new contributions were received yes
terday: Section l, Night Workers,
SIP; ga IF, SIT; Section 5, Branch
4, $79; "a IF, $40; Section 3, S193. rs;
lac 81, $4,000; LAC At, $81; 2B Of,
$40; Night Workers, Branch 1,
S54.60; and the Workers, School,
$17S.30.
Students on Job.
The students of the Workers School
are working with great enthusiasm in
order to raise their quota of $4,000
in the drive. A Japanese student,
Ginichi Kito, after himself contribut-
ing $40, collected S21 more among a
group Of workers, most of whom were
Japanese.
Among those who also contributed
through Kito was Socrates SANDING.
brother of General Augustine San
dino, leader of the Nicaraguan army
fighting American imperialism. San
dino, who lost his job because of his
opposition to Wall Streets war on
Nicaragua, declared that he was con-
tributing to the Workers Center be-
cause he felt certain it would be a
mighty bulwark against imperialism
and against all forms of exploitation.
Ben Gold Enthusiastic.
The news of the $4,000 drive to
establish the Workers Center has
drawn enthusiastic comment from
progressive leaders of the trade
union movement in this city. Ben
Gold, manager of the Joint Board,
Furriers' Union, declared:
"The establishment of the Workers
Center on Union Square should be
welcomed and supported by every
militant and class conscious worker.
The progressive and class conscious
workers of New York have in the
past established labor lycaums and
large trade union centers. But in
stead of serving as workers centers,
these places became bureaucratic
nests where the misleaders Of labor
have been scheming cooperation with
the bosses against the workers. The
workers of New York also erected
the ten-story Jewish Daily Forward
building, which has become the center
Of reaction in the Jewish labor
movement.
Real Workers Home.
But in the Workers Center on
Union Square the New York work
ers will at last have a center of their
own. The Workers Center will CEN
tralize the activities of the militant
workers who are striving to convert
the present devitalized unions into
living militant instruments of the
workers. The thousands of progress
sive and militant workers of New
York should rally around the Work
ers Center and draw inspiration and
leadership from the various revolu-
tionary organizations that will be
housed there"
BOruchowitz's Statement.
Joseph Boruchowitz, manager of
Local 2, Cloak and Dressmakers'
Union, stated yesterday:
.'The building of a militant work
ers' center on Union Square at a
time when the reactionary united
forces Of the union bureaucracy. the
bosses and the state authorities are
conducting a most vicious attack
against the labor movement. is the
best demonstration that nothing can
stop our efforts to attain our goal of
converting Union Square into the
Red Square of New York, the CAPT.
toll Of the Soviet States Of America.
Forward to the building of our
movement with greater zeal and en-
thusiasmW
Long Been Needed.
George f. Powers. organizer of the
Architectural Iron, Bronze and Struc-
tsral Workers Union, said last
night.
"The Workers Center comes at
just the right time. The forces of
progressive labor have needed for q
long time the inspiring and unifying
effect which even the idea Of such a
center produces and which with &C.
tual functioping will be greatly in
tensified While the labor movement
Of New York City will be the first to
benefit, the valuable influence of the
Workers Center win be countrywide
in extent.