The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29
PHILA. A,F. OF |.
RANK AND FILE
help GASTONIA
Refuse to Stand By as
Bosses Kill Comrades

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respond to this great burden. The
committee urges all workers who do
not wish to see their comrades burn
ed in the electric chair to expend
every bit of energy on the drive to
raise funds.
A. F. of l.. Unions Responding.
In Philadelphia, the A. F. of L.
Carpenters Local, No. 1850, and the
Paper Hangers Union, have serious
internal quarrels between the Off
cialdom and the rank and filters on
the question of aiding Gastonia,
Jennie Cooper, secretary of the In
ternational Labor Defense there re-
ports.
"The Paper Hangers Union, de-
spite the attack of the right wing
elements, decided to hold member
ship meeting this week and draw up
complete plans to help the Gastonia
strikers"
Philadelphia, like Detroit and San
Francisco, as well as other cities,
reports another united front confer
ence to lie held on a more broad
scale than previously.
Many Cities Modified.
"Our entire district" Cooper said,
including such cities as Ports
mouth, Va, Richmond, Va, Chester,
Pa, Trenton, N. j., Roebling, N. j.,
Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, as
we'll as Philadelphia are modified
for the campaign and are holding
tag days, house to house street and
factory gate collections, ~ well as
united front conferences.
Detroit Busy on Campaign.
Word was received today from
Detroit that broad conference, in
GLIDING all types of working class
organizations, will be held Sunday,
Sept. 90 in Workers Hall, 1882
Woodward Ave. The city sent in
$400 today for the first two tag
days of the campaign.
New England Active.
Stirring demonstrations on Aug.
% and % in New Bedford, where
1000 gathered on Saulnier's Lot,
and in Fall River, where 500 were
present on Liberty Lot, opened the
period of intensified activities in
that district. Boston, where 800
workers attended the Sacco-Vanzetti
meeting in New International Hall,
Roxbury, Aug. "a, despite police
ban, is most active in the campaign,
with shop collections, tag days,
house to house collections.
N. Y. Workers Intensity Campaign.
Millinery Local No. 43, the Win
dow Cleaners and the Needle Trades
Workers are the most active among
the New York workers during the
campaign. They are stressing shop
collections, vying with one another
in the drive to secure the most
funds and report much success.
Meetings are being held before shop
gates, and collections being made.
Chelsea, Mass, to Hold Sacco
Demonstration.
Chelsea, Mass, reports a mass
netting to be held in the Labor Ly-
ceum Aug. 80 in Sacco-Vanzetti
Gastonia demonstration, when the
workers will be further modified on
behalf of the Gastonia campaign. A
defense and relief outing is to be
held in Roslindale, near Boston,
Sunday, Sept. 1, on behalf of Gas
tonia.
Labor Day Week Ends Peak of
Campaign.
| Most of the cities are intensity
ing their campaigns to reach the
peak during the week end, including
Labor Day. The thousands Of
workers celebrations to be held the
land over will be utilized for fur
Their Gastonia activity. Street, house
toulouse campaigns, shop and fac
tory gate collections, tag days, are
most of the activities planned in
hundreds of cities to raise funds
that day.
Activities Everywhere.
Further activities reported are:
Finnish Workers Society, held pic
mic last Sunday in Scotia, N. Y,
and sent $33 to help Gastonia.
Flint, Sacco-Vanzetti- Gastonia pic
mic held by I. L. D. last Sunday,
raised S75.
Maplewood, N. j., Cleaners and
Dyers' Local, No. 1896, reports
collection of 1923 for Gastonia de-
tense.
Canton, Ohio, collected $40 at
Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class.