The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
Tag Days Open.
Tao Dav todavi

Tag Day today!
"And Monday the trial opens in
Charlotte, N. C. to determine if 16
Gastonia strikers will burn in the
electric CHART" warns the Gastonia
Joint Defense and Relief Campaign
Committee today.
These facts are the opening shots
in the American working class Of
fensive, Aug. "a to Sept. 2, to save
the Gastonia strikers, the committee
declares.
Unto the streets! Before the fac
tory gates! House to house! In
every city of America" were the
slogans broadcast across America
wherever the wheels of industry
turn, by the Gastonia Joint Defense
and Relief Campaign Committee, of
so f. 18th St., room 402, N. Y. c.,
for the ten day defense campaign.
With lei militant workers await
ing trial in Chicago, so more in Pitts
burgh, and thousands more through
out the land. all arrested for DEM
onstrating on behalf of the Gastonia
strikers, new branches of the Inter-
national Labor Defense are spring
ing up in every section of the land,
and participating at once in the 10
day campaign for funds.
The International Labor Defense,
with national offices at 80 E. 18th
St., room 402, New York City, re-
ports that eleven new branches of
the l. L. D. have been formed in the
Chicago city district alone. Others
are in the process of formation in
Milwaukee and st. Louis.
Detroit, which will hold big Gas
tonia-Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration
tonight in Cadillac Square, has ar
ranged for detailed collections in
every section of the city. Neigh
borhood tag days will net the city
thousands of dollars.
At the last mass meeting on July
20, 700 plain clothes men were in
the crowd at Detroit. Nevertheless
the meeting was held, and larger
crowd will be on hand to demon
strate tonight. A united front con-
ference will be held in that city on
Sunday, Sept. 20, at IL a. m.
All arrangements for the ten day
drive have been completed in Wash
ington where a mass Sacco- Vanzetti
demonstration will be held Aug. %,
when H. M. Wicks, editor of the
Daily Worker, will be the principal
speaker.
In the oil centers of Oklahoma, in
Oklahoma City, new I. L. D.
branch has been formed with 80
members. Funds will be collected
during the ten day campaign by
means of tag days, house to house,
street, shop, and factory gate col
lections.
In all the cities throughout the
land, united front with trade I'M
ions, workers societies, and frater-
nal organizations are stressed.
More Sacco-Vanzetti-G a tonia
demonstrations are to be held today
at Ludlow, Mass, at 2 p. M, Palmer,
Mass, at 5 p. m, and Springfield,
Mass, at $50 p. m.
They will also be held in Ports
mouth, Va, and Norfolk, Va, Aug.
26. The meeting in the latter city
will be in the Norfolk Progressive
Center, at the corner of Church and
Freemason SITS, Youngstown, O.,
will hold their meeting Sunday, at
2 p. m. in Workers Hall, 100 Wick
Ave. The meeting in Denver, COL,
will be held tonight.
Wilkes-Barre, Pc, reports that at
the joint conference, Aug. 81, 48
delegates were present from 35
workers organizations, and plans for
mobilizing the working class there
for the ten day campaign for funds
was completed.
Mother Bloor will be the principal
speaker in San Francisco Sunday,
in Musicians Hall, at $50 Jones St.
Excellent results are reported from
the west coast section, with new I.
n hropobas Lo;x~ & !