The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-01

Editors on Ball.; Need
Funds to Sane DQiIy'
TO THE WORKING CLASS READERS
OF THE DAILY WORKER:

IO THE WORKING CLASS READERS
OF THE DAILY WORKER:
COMRADES:-The campaign to DESTROY the
Daily Worker continues, and the Daily Worker con-
nues to rely on the class conscious workers to de-
fend it,
The struggle proceeds step by STEP Late YES
terday, Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker
and MOlssaye Olgin editor of the daily Freheit i'm
prlsOned the day before warrant issued by the
yellow socialist leader Morris HiIlquit, were baiIed
out OF the city prison by the International Labor De-
fense.
These worker editors were taken Immediately to
the court for bailing fOrmalites, and found there
representatives of Morris Hillquit and special re-
porters from the yellow official organ of the socialist
party the New Leader, and the equally yellow So
cialst Forward. They to gloat over their work.
and they hope to wreck us.
Here the issue is clear cut and definite. The
Daily Worker has enthusiastically supported the
strike OF the needle trades workers, struggling to win
the forty hour week and wage raise, to abolish
sweat shop conditions in the industry.
Yesterday the yellow socialist Forward" came
out openly and Historically commanded workers not
to support the Daily Worker financially or other
wise. In spite of the yellow Forward the workers
will support and help the Daily to fight the traitors
OF the working class The socialist party, and all of
its publications sander the strikers demand the
Jang OF their leaders and applaud gangster tactics
against the members of the union ON the picket line
This is plain srikebreakng, done in the service of
the employers.
Now the next stage in the battle. Morris Hillquit
socialist leader, smartng already under the lash of
working class wrath because exposed by the Daily
Worker as a participation in the swindling of the
needle trades workers out of 5OO0O of their money
rushes into the attack He demands indictments for
libel Recognizing the services of his party to the
strikebreaking employers the district attorneys Of
flee of New York gives him every facility handouts
the defense by permitting Hilquit to get his indct
ment direct from the grand jury, without any pre-
iminary hearing, something that has seldom if
happened before in criminal practice in New York.
These enemies of labor know how to stick together
and help each other.
This phase of the battle is not over yet.
We have to see now whether the working class
knows this lesson too. The Daily Worker expects
long and hard fought struggle against the socialists
and the strkebreaking district attorneys office of
New York. 1t will need money for this defense. The
Daily Worker as all it's readers know, was already
in serious financial difficulties when Hillqut
launched his indictments. TO the working class,
which the Daily Worker has defended in their every
strike in all their demands for better wages and i'm
proved conditions to whom it has preached that the
workers should have and should run the industries
and stop supporting useless millionaire Glass; its
strikebreaking socialist party and other reformist
grafters, to these workers the Daily Worker comes,
appealing for financial help which to it is matter
of life and death.
What is your answer, workers? Send in the
supplies need to carry this war for you. This
is your fight The Daily Worker is not something
separate and different from the workers, it is their
paper their voice in this contest.
Rush funds Immediately.
THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE.
The total contributions, including those of last
week are:
Previously listed ........ .s1279O19
Monday Observation-Disclosures. 41250
Tuesday Observation-Disclosures. 385O1
Wednesday .............. 36212
Thursday ................... 3935O
Total .$15,343.32