The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-26
THROW TEAR GAS into GASTONIA STRIKERS CELLS
WORKERS MUST SAVE DAILY;
SMASH CASTONLA FRAME-U /!

The fight to save the life of the Daily Worker
is directly bound up with the struggle to smash
the Gastonia frame-up of the textile mill own
ers that seeks to burn out the lives of IA heroic
workers in the electric chair.
No adequate struggle can be waged to rescue
the North Carolina textile workers from the hdeous death
that awaits them without powerful Daily Worker to aid in
the fight.
YET at this very moment the life of the Daily Worker is
threatened Last Friday morning there Daily Worker
For the first time since it established the Daily Worker
missed an issue.
days fight for the Gasona frame-up victims lost
The struggle against the threatening danger leading
to International Red Day AntWar Day. August First
halted On this day the Daily Worker did not function the
picket lines in the New York furrers strike when elaborate
plans had made distribute thousands of copies of he
Daily thus using effective medium for spreading the
strike For this day the campaign for the Trade Union Unity
Conference August 3 had to be suspended Every other
labor activity seriously affected.
Workers the nation felt the loss Letters, inquiries
by telephone and telegraph have been received from workers
everywhere revealing the fact clearly and Enthusiastically that
the Daily Worker is mighty factor in the daily lives of the
workers all sections of the land The day that the Daily
Worker did not appear, there inevitable weakening
along all the batefronts of labor.
The fact that the Daily Worker reappeared does not
mean that it is out of danger Quite the contrary.
In the first place there has been reduction in size from
six to four pages This inevitable This at the
when the Daily Worker should have been increased
rather than decreased in sze This that two full
had be eliminated the Worker Correspondents Page page
Four and the given to Foreign News page Three
This is like soldier going into action short of ammunition
is huge piece of working class artillery that hasn't suf
cient strength to make effective attack the well armed
enemy capitalist class This weakness must be
mediatey.
I'm the meantime however the life of the Daily worker
continually in jeopardy. The immediate task is
toration of size to six pages.
EVERY EFFORT is NEEDED NOW TO MAINTAIN THE
DAILY WORKER EVEN IN THE REDUCED SIZE, TO PRE-
VENT ITS COMPLETE SUSPENSION, TO SAVE IT'S LIFE.
The readers of the Daily Worker must this acute
crisis just they have successfully similar
culties in the past We know that you will keep the Daily
Worker alive to expose the Gastona rameup to
rally the whole working class against the threatening imperial
s war; to develop the campaign for the organization of the
unOrganzed in the basic industries to bring
workers into the Communist Party, building it mass
organization leading the workers greater greater
victories.
Instant action required however Every hour pract
cay the life of the Daily Worker dangers Every
day some new and pressing obligations must be met On
Mondays the workers in the composing must be paid
The rules of the Typographical Union do permit an in
tants delay On Fridays the the stereoypers and
pressmen must be ready White paper bought Our
Geographic service stopped twice during the past week
Our engravers have refused grant credit This
mat cash must be paid daily for all engravng cartoons H.
Illustrations and other features that help to make ve cf
fectve daily"
Last Friday The Daily" did not appear because we ere
unable to raise $1,000. Publication was continued with the
understanding that this would be Immediately The
threatens to shut down at moment unless payment
is forthcoming.
Another shutdown for single day. NAV prove fatal
Ihs must not occur The Daily Worker not die II must
live to battle for the lives of the IA facing the electric
10 gnt for the coal miners steel workers. the auto
the furers the ron food other strikers in New
York City, Boston, Philadelphia Detroit Chicago San Fran
cisco and multitude of other cities
One of comrades Sonny Roback of Now york
City, sends in his four months savings of s1s5 This is the
spirit that makes defeat impossible
But the response must be quick The need is great at this
very moment Every hour counts Every hour must be made
count effectively through an increasing flow If
from every section of the land Use the blank below
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