The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-03
Workers! Which Shall 1t
Be: $1,000 a Day and 6
Pages Or Suspension?
Daily Worker Cannot Go On Minimizing
Struggles of Toilers, Textile Frameup

Even WIl1Ie III Is QellV VeTlfig WHAT lIldy pIoNc
to be it's last blows for the working class, the
Daily Worker, true to it's revolutionary tradi-
ton, is struggling fiercely for a return to six
pages. That struggle at the moment looks
almost hopeless but the alternative is COM
plete suspension.
The $4,000 which was needed to tide the
crippled four-page paper over the weekend
and which should have been in our hands
Saturday night is only now trickling in.
The slow response to desperate appeals for imme-
date aid has been DUE the fact that
conceivable catastrophe which rapidly overtakng the only
English language labor daily has not been sufficiently borne
in upon the militant workers of the United States.
The Daily Worker is face to face with bankruptcy.
Every issue that has since Saturday has driven
deeper into debt making the position of the paper
perous and the prospect of going back to six pages
and more remote.
But the choice must lie between six pages nothing!
We cannot in present condition when the working
class of America is enduring of the most vicious
saughts of the parasite swine in labor history There
struggles every 'front.' all of them demanding ade
quate treatment in the columns of Daily the
paper which the exploited toers bank faithful
reports of their battles the newspaper fighting in their
interests.
The long and heroic strike of the cafeteria workers
must down into the annals of labor history inadequaey
chrOnced because the Daily Worker cramped for space
not able to completely The struggles of the shoe
workers in Haverh Boston and Philadelphia suffer
ing the fate We have had to minimize the important
revolt of the Fisher Body slaves The strike of the furers
in New York City has not been given its due. The arch
tectura iron and bronze workers have been forced to
duct their fight against the bosses with insufficient aid of
the Daily In Philadelphia, where the rank and file talors
acting under the leadership of the T. u f. L. converted the
fake stOppages of the Hlman machine into militant strug
ges the inability of paper to throw it's full support
the side of the strikers has greatly hampered their
Nor is this all. Countless other struggles on a smaller
scale but still of vast Importance to the working class
ment of America not much mentioned and
be mentioned adequately in fourpage paper.
Even the epoch-making frame-up the Haymarke of
1929 of the Gasona textile strikers fourteen
being rushed to the electric chair by the ferocious mill
barOs is not receiving the widespread is
duty to make. THINK WHAT 1T WILL MEAN TO THESE
WORKING CLASS HEROES IF THE DAILY GOES UN-
DER IN THE MIDST OF THE FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES!
1t will be equivalent to turning the workers. bound hand and
foot to the brutal terror of the bosses and their cap
talist courts
Workers. make your choice One days pay to keep the
Daily Worker in the fight silent acquescence in the
der of fourteen militant strikers. sxpage paper
ing all the valy involving the workers and farmers
OF all countries capuaon before the black forces of
action voice for the oppressed toers of the land the
hopeless silence of the condemned.
The slogan for the remainder of the emergency cam
pagn must be: $1,000 A DAY TO KEEP THE DAILY
WORKER ALIVE! BACK TO SIX PAGES!
Bring your contributions in person or send them by tee
graph special delivery air mail to the Daily Worker
2S Union Square, New York City. The business office will
be open until $3.50 tonight receive and tabulae all con
tributiOns.
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