The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
NEGROES JOIN IN
TAG DAY DRIVES
Need Immediate Funds
to Bring Witnesses

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and Ku Klux-ridden South and not
only to organize the exploited work
ers, but to fearlessly proclaim the
union as committed to program of
social equality for Negroes. This
latter fact alone furnishes the reac-
tionary classes of the South, Negro
and white, with grounds for strong
opposition. Despite this, and know
ing the cost, Beal, Dunno and 9TH
ers have not flinched nor tried to
evade.
This kind of courage and I'M
flinehing adherence to principle will
not permit me to stand aside and
simply admire. While for personal
reasons l can not do more, still
can at least contribute my share to-
ward the defense of the men and
women who stand in the shadow of
the chair, so I inclose SIS, regretting
I can not send more"
Workers Compete to Raise Funds.
"How much did you bring in for
Gastonia today?"
This question is being asked in a
thousand sections of the American
working class today, competing with
one another in the ten day Gasto-
mia Joint Defense and Relief Cam
paign that began Aug. 26 and will
continue until Sept. 2.
UNLESS our sympathies for the
strikers are backed up by funds"
one worker said, "our defense may
collapse in the middle of the trial.
There are lawyers to pay, witnesses
to feed and shelter, court stenogra-
pliers, ETC., who must be paid, and
the entire working class must help
with funds"
Assess Members so Cents.
Each member of the Needle
Trades Industrial Union, nationally,
has assessed himself fifty cents to-
ward the weeks drive. The Nation
al Executive Committee decided to
hold mass conferences throughout
New York either Thursday or next
Tuesday to mobilize for Gastonia
defense. The exact day will be an
nounced soon.
Rose Wortis, of the executive COM
mittee of the Needle Trades Union
and her co-workers on the commit
tee, have pledged themselves to do
their utmost for the campaign for
funds.
Shop Collections.
,"We emphasize shop collections,
to be continued all through the cam
paign. We are mobilizing our entire
membership for the drive. Many
other unions are expected to follow
the needle workers precedent.
Word was received from Boston
that all the surrounding towns, as
well as the city proper, are being
secured by workers for funds. New
Haven, Conn.,, will hold Gastonia
meeting Friday, Aug. 80, to mobil-
ize for collections.
Workers of Pittsburgh, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Buffalo,
and as far west as the Pacific coast,
are all aware of the absolute neces-
sity of raising funds to save the
Gastonia strikers. They are continu-
ing the activities in the shops, in the
streets, before factory gates, raising
funds through every possible medi-
UNI.
Alfred Wagenknecht, secretary of
the Gastonia Joint Defense and Re-
lief Committee declared that despite
the earnest activities of the work.
ers to date, the possibilities for
funds have not yet been exhausted.
Many workers unattached to the
|. II. d. or w. l. r. are anxious to
contribute" he said, and are most
eager to help the Gastonia prison.
ers. Their own shop conditions,
speedsup and low wages generate
immediate sympathy for the Casio
nY. defendants who face execution"