The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
Workers! Show Your ColOrs!


Continuing its drive to raise the money necessary to pay
be compelled publication, the Daily Worker has
gained the Tag Days in New York City for this Saturday
and Sunday February Is and 49, The workers of New York
are expected carry the drive the top and place the
fighting organ of the American workngcass in position
where will be able to carry its work for the emancpa
ton of our class
The slogan of this tag day drive SHOW Your Color!'
is not an accidental choice 1t expresses the spirit of the
struggles of workers throughout the world.
In New York fifteen thousand dressmakers under the
leadership of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union
are putting up valiant fight for union conditions and
against the berayers of the yellow socialist scab
unions They fighting the concerted efforts of Sches
myers the police the bosses to ntmdate them into accept
of the sweat-shop They are showing their COLOR
In New England the textile workers. under guidance of
the National Textile Workers Union are continuing their
valiant fight against the mill barons the brutal police who
during the Fall River strike vicious murdered Johnny
Madeos and brutay dubbed the thousands of workers fight
ing better conditions in the industry They too show
ing their color!
The National Miners Union continuing the fight of the
miners all the country combating the labor betrayer
the Green's VOLS Lewises and their henchmen 1t IS con-
tnung struggle with the coal and iron police the company
gangsers and the thugs hired by the berayers of the work
ngcass and the reaconary American Federation of Labor
These workers showing their color!
In prisons throughout the United States, workers who
committed the Crime of fighting for their class are in
generated bruay treated beaten starved inundated
But they sight of the which they parc
pated and which them to prison. They defy the
brutality and vcousness of the prison authorities while
they being dubbed They remember the of the
workngcass they forget and in the face of their
brutal treatment they stick by their class They show their
color
The Daily Worker the only English speaking daily
organ the workers of the United States organized and
organized Negro and white and all is in the forefront
of every struggle of the workers of the United States 1t is
the banner and the inspiration behind these struggles
to which the workers engaged in these struggles
look for guidance Inside the prisons and outside the Daily
carries the campaign force the capitalist class
free these prisoners of the claswar 1t asks quarters
and unlike the ettybourgeois reformist socialist papers,
the issues squarey 1t does not ask for mercy, for
cemency 1t puts the issues involved feminist
basis 1t demands the freedom of the casswar victims.
And now when this Daily Worker the only voice of the
American workers is threatened with extinction, when the
Daily Worker ITSELF which has fought in struggles
revolutionary casconscos worker to make that fight his
The Daily Worker is your voice. you must remember
You must remember what the Daily Worker to you
what the Daily Worker stands for
You too workers must show your color! You too must
show that you realize the Importance of fighting organ
in this period when the mperast governments of the world
preparing for preparing for attack upon the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics the Socialist Fatherand
of the international working class You must show that
you ready to do anything to keep the Daily Worker alive
fighting your battles vocng your struggle against the
BOSSES, the gunner, the betrayers
Mobilize for the Tag Days this Saturday and Sunday!
Make these two days ralyng point in the of
your fighting organi
Strip for action these days. and let your clarion
call be:
"SHOW YOUR COIORr