The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-20
C, P. CONVENTION
OPENS TODAY
Mass Meet At Madison
Square Garden

NEW YORK.-Tonight more than
10000 workers, organized and un-
organized, representing many indus
tries and nationalities, are expected
to rally at Madison Square Garden
in a mighty demonstration that will
mark the opening of the Seventh
National Convention of the Commu-
mist Party.
This convention is the most sig
nificant in the hitory of the
Party. 1t comes at time
when the tide of working class
struggle is rising throughout
the world, when 100000 unem-
ployed workers in the United States
are looking to the Communist Par
ty for leadership, when revolt is
seething in the mining, textile,
metal, marine, agricultural, shoe,
needle and many other industries.
1t comes at a time when in the two
most important colonial countries
in the world, China and India,
whose combined population is near
ly half the total population of the
globe, heroic revolutionary strug
giles are in progress, shaking the
very foundations of world imperial
ism.
Support India, China Revolt.
Support the Chinese and Indian
Revolutions! will be one of the
great rallying cries of tomorrow
nights meeting. This militant DEM
onstration will express the I'M
breakable solidarity of the Ameri-
can workers with the glorious
struggles of the Chinese and Indian
masses to free themselves from i'm
perialist oppression and their native
exploiters.
The demonstration will also mark
another step in the struggle against
unemployment which is being led
by the Communist Party and the
Trade Union Unity League. 1t will
be a preliminary mass mobilization
for the big National Unemployed
Convention in Chicago July 4 and
10000 voices will thunder the de-
mand for the immediate release of
the leaders of the New York March
6 demonstration, Foster, Minor, Am
ter and Raymond, of the six At
lanta prisoners now facing the cleo
trio chair, of the organizers of the
agricultural workers in California
and of all class war prisoners.
Speakers From Shops.
Tomorrow nights rally will make
a departure from all previous mass
meetings in that there will be one
leading speaker representing the
Communist Party, all the other
speakers being rank and file work
ers from shop and factories. These
speakers will bring greetings to the
Party convention and will express
the determination of the workers
they represent to fight under the
leadership of the Party and to sup
port its program in the coming
elections.
Trade unions, clubs and other
workers organizations are now
rallying their members, as well as
unorganized workers, to demon
strate in a body at Madison Square
Garden, 49th st. and Eighth Ave-,
with their banners and placards. A
program of vivid proletarian enter
tainment will be provided by the
Labor Sports Union, Freiheit Ges-
angs Verein and Workers Interna-
tional Relief Band. Tickets are
only 35 cents in advance; so cents
at the door. They are on sale at
the district office of the Party, 26
Union Square, N. Y. c.
Needle Workers In 1t.
The great mass meeting of needle
trades workers, meeting at the call
of their industrial union yesterday
in Cooper Union voted to call all
needle workers, employed and I'M
employed, to attend the Madison
Square meeting in a body. Needle
Trades shops will organize for
group participation in the demon
stration, and there will be speakers
from these shops.
Textile Workers Call.
The Textile Workers Industrial
Union is distributing widely among
the workers in New York knitting
mills and other textile factories
leaflet pointing out that unemploy-
ment and low pay, hours as high
as 9 or 10 for those who work for
a SIP to SIS week wage and hun
ger and starvation for thousands in
the industry, demand that textile
workers should take part Friday.
The leaflet reminds them that their
elected delegates to lay demands for
work or wages before New York
City officials are in prison, and
that the National Textile Workers
Union Georgia organizer, Mary
Dalton, is held with five other or
ganizers in Atlanta Jail, to be cleo
trocuted if the bosses have their
way, just because she was organ
izing workers to fight the slave