The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-05
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By MICHAEL INTRATOR,

To workers speaking predol
antly a foreign language, part
larly those workers in America
are endowed with a rich tradi
of struggle and have developed t
own revolutionary language OF
the Daily Worker, Communist ne
paper and working class figi
may not appear to assume
of such immediate importance
their struggles as does the p;
in their own language. But
is not so.
While class-conscious and thou.
full foreign speaking workers
all hasten to restate their cor
ton that the Daily Worker is
portant to them, still many coult
found who are guilty of discoun
the immediate, day-to-day serv
the "Daily" renders them in
struggle against their oppresi
and betrayers.
Non-Jewish Needle Workers.
This is a fault often found am
the militant workers in the ne
trades and in the Jewish Ii
movement. Differentiation is N
advisedly, because the needle trs
no longer are entirely Jewish.
rapidly growing minority now
approaching so per cent consists
non-Jewish workers.
But in New York the Jewish ne,
trades workers are predominant
numbers and have a powerful We
on in their Communist Jewish ID
Freiheit, whose influence and D
tige among the Jewish work
masses is tremendous. Some of Il
are therefore inclined to make.
mistake of thinking that the %,
Worker is not of immediate inn
lance, but that it serves only
inform readers of how "thing$
going from time to time" 81
Such an attitude is wrong.
Daily Worker is the only source
information to the tens Of thousa
of non-Jewish workers in the aiSs.t
trades. And the new amalgarnh
needle trades workers union, est
lished at the convention a few q
ago, gave unmistakable EVIDENCE
ORIGINATING itself strongly on tn
very thousands of unorgafi
workers in the industry in 81
York and out of town. r.
Rely on Daily.
Workers in the labor moven
all over the nation and in the i
of the world rely on the "Dailyn
not on a foreign language org
for their news on the struggle he
And the needle trades workers str
gle especially with the launching
the new amalgamated union, tai
on still greater national and int
national significance.
On the other hand the Jew
workers want the enemies of til
fight, the police, the judges,
American Federation of Labor fax
to know what they want to say
them. This alliance of Cypress
read and read very diligently,
Daily Worker.
If all needle trades workers w
to see the poisonous news stol
circulated against them by Mattt
VOL in the numerous weekly org,
of the A. F. of L. organizati
thruout the country, and we on
Daily" staff receive them and
them all, they would immediat
waken to the vital Importance
the Daily" To give an exam,
If an obscure local of some uni
on the basis of a letter from N
Vol, can vote a financial contri
ton to Schlesinger and his un
wreckers, that is hurt that co
probably have been prevented i,
member of that local knew the tr
from the Daily Worker and put
fight there to prevent a favora
decision.
The revolutionary American or,
of the Workers (Communist) Pa
on its fifth birthday, is a pow
full instrument of defense and
Tense against your enemies, fore
speaking workers!
The assistance it renders v
struggle is immediate, instant, d
to-day!
1t asks, on the celebration of
five years of existence, not {
that its financial foundations be
inforced by foreign speaking as '
as American speaking workers,
that it be informed and kept in
tailed and momentary touch "
the fight against our enemies.
this way the Daily Worker will
only become a more valuable fig
ing instrument for the workers,
will gain in influence, and sub
quently in economic security.