Spend days of summer communing with the Communist Party exactly years ago as 1924’s season of picnics, athletic festivals, outings, and campaigning begins. In a supposed secular country, socially dominated by religion as the U.S. was, finding earthly activities devoid of the ministerial hand, especially for workers, was mostly cheap entertainment or illegal, or both. That was until the arrival of German turners and social-democrats brought all manner of class-based civic institutions and practices, including the summer picnic and the athletic festival. As the labor movement grew beyond its largely German pioneers, the summer festival became an essential time in the social and political calendar of organized workers, both in unions and among emerging Socialist organizations. For generations the open-air outing, sometimes involving week-long encampments of 1000s, served a myriad of purposes: Political organizing and networking, fundraising, electoral campaigning, education and debate, community building, dating and romance, music and dancing, communal eating and upkeep, athletics and games, study and caucus, and most importantly welding a common identity and purpose. The Communist Party grew out of that tradition and kept it going, expanding and institutionalized the practice. Below are over 60 announcements, plans, agenda, and reports and dozens of announcements from the Daily Worker between June and Labor Day, 1924.

‘100 Years Ago: 1924’s Summer of Communist Picnics’ from the Daily Worker.

Kansas City Plans Picnics To Benefit Party Activities. May 28, 1924.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 27.The local branches of the Workers Party are arranging a monster picnic for June 29th to be held at Speedway Grove, 85th and Troost streets. All party members of this vicinity have been requested not to plan other engagements for the date. The Farmer-Labor Party campaign is arousing, great interest here and brings favorable comment to Workers Party members for their energy in utilizing every opportunity to achieve their ends. A picnic for the benefit of the DAILY WORKER will be planned soon.

Special Meeting To Be Held Saturday For Picnic Plans. May 28, 1924.

There will be a meeting Saturday, May 31, 2:30 p.m., at 166 West Washington street, room 303, to take up in detail the matter of the July 4 party picnic and the Press picnic on August 10. Every branch and City Central Committee should be represented at this meeting, in order that it may contribute its share towards the success of both the July 4th and August 10th affairs. In addition to the matter of the July 4th picnic, we should also begin making extensive preparations on August 10th. We should decide just what arrangements are to be made, such as financial returns to the various papers, etc., in order that we can be certain of the fullest co-operation from every federation and every language and English paper. To this meeting, therefore, the representative from the respective papers should also appear. Branches that have failed to send in their monthly report cards promptly, are requested to send in these reports as quickly as possible, so that reports can be made correctly to the National Office.

REVOLUTIONISTS WILL FROLIC AT ALTENHEIM PARK, May 30, 1924.

Lots of Fun at Affair This Friday. Final arrangements have been made for the May 30 picnic to be held jointly by the Trade Union Educational League and the Young Workers League. The grove, at Altenheim, Forest Park, will be decorated in a novel manner. Booths will be trimmed and every effort made to add a gay, festive spirit to the occasion. The facilities of the grove are well suited for the affair. Plenty of tables and benches, all in a deep shade and under large trees, will give comfort to the crowd. A large part of the grove is grass covered for those wanting to get closer to earth. Swings and a merry-go-round promise a day’s fun for the children and a dance pavilion will take care of those with an interest in another movement. A splendid (and union) orchestra has been hired for the occasion. Food will be dispensed in a generous and efficient manner by the Amalgamated Food Workers, who will receive help from the Hungarian group of militants and young workers. as well as some waitresses mighty easy to look at. Well-Known Rebels to Speak. Short talks by Bob Minor, Jack Johnstone and Max Schachtman will alone be worth while coming to hear. The grove is easy to get to. The Forest Park L (Metropolitan) will take you directly to the gates. Or one can take the Madison St. car and transfer to the suburban line.

Y.W.L. and T.U.E.L. Razz Fakers at Radical Picnic. June 3, 1924.

Radicals started off the picnic season with a bang when they gathered by the hundreds at the joint affair held Decoration Day at the Altenheim Grove by the Trade Union Educational League and the Young Workers League. In an intermission between the dances in the pavilion, the crowd was addressed by Max Shachtman, editor of The Young Worker who called on the youth to be loyal to their own class on Decoration Day instead of to the capitalist war mongers; Lovett Fort-Whiteman, prominent negro orator, appealed for closer unity between white and black workers under the leadership of the Workers Party; and Bob Miner, editor of the Liberator, in a speech which was received with applause for the Communists and jeers for the fake progressives in the senate, rightly characterized LaFollette as one who seeks to be master of the workers instead of their servant. As the old tale goes, a good time was had by all.

Philadelphia Y.W.L. Plans Annual Farm Picnic for June 22. June 6, 1924.

The event of the year to which all young workers look forward most eagerly is now on the horizon. The annual picnic of the Young Workers’ League is announced for June 22 at the Luis Flaxman farm. The committee in charge says that the fun will begin at 8 a.m. (if anyone arrives that early) and will last until 12 p.m. A splendid program of sports, games, dancing and other amusements is being arranged and of course there will be all kinds of good refreshments. Admission is free. Instructions are given to take the Fox Chase car, No. 50, on Fifth St.; get off at Church Lane; walk to the right.

CONCERT, PICNIC FOR SOVIET AID ON THIS SUNDAY. June 7, 1924.

The Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia and the Jewish Daily Freiheit have arranged together an open air concert and picnic for this coming Sunday, June 8, at Stickney Park, Lyons, Ill. The Society for Technical Aid is well known in Chicago. Since its organization a few years ago, the Society has prepared and sent to Russia hundreds of skilled workers who are working and teaching in the shops, factories and fields of Russia. Within a few weeks another group of the agricultural Commune “Krasny Lutch” (RED Ray) is leaving for Russia. Within a few months the dairy and poultry Commune “Herold” is expected to go to the economic front in Soviet Russia. The Society has its headquarters at 1902 W. Division St., where it takes up the entire second floor. Besides the library and the school rooms, there is a big hall for meetings and lectures, and a stage where popular plays are presented. It takes money to run the school and keep up the headquarters, altho the Society has no paid officials, and even the janitors’ work is being done free of charge. The dues are very small and do not cover the expenses. To cover its expenses the Society runs affairs similar to this picnic. All who are in sympathy with Soviet Russia should come to this picnic and help keep up the good work of the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia. Tickets are for sale at the Soviet School, 1902 W. Division St., Russian Co-op. restaurant, 1734 W. Division St., Freiheit Office, 1145 Blue Island Ave., Cheski’s restaurant, 3124 W. Roosevelt Road.

Philadelphia Daily Worker Boosters and Friends Arrange Picnic. June 10, 1924.

Readers and friends of the DAILY WORKER will be given a treat at the first annual DAILY WORKER picnic, held Saturday, June 14, at the Schuetzen park. The arrangements committee is sparing no effort to make this the greatest event of the summer season. H.M. Wicks of New York is scheduled to deliver a talk at the picnic grounds. The Lithuanian Singing society will be one of the outstanding features of this outdoor revel. Oscar Lyman’s union orchestra will furnish the dance music. The refreshments committee promises to have a delicious variety of tempting things to eat and drink. Games and sports of all kinds are being arranged. The picnic grounds at the Scheutzen park are ideally arranged. There is plenty of grassy space, sunshine and shade trees to satisfy the lovers of outdoors. The beautiful, spacious dance pavilion and a series of other splendid buildings furnish plenty of protection in case of rain, so that a successful picnic and enjoyable time is assured every one irrespective of the weather. Saturday, June 14, from 2 p.m. till 11 p.m., will be seven memorable hours of enjoyment and revelry with friends you meet daily and those you haven’t seen for years. No friend of the DAILY WORKER can afford to miss this treat.

OHIO FINNISH BRANCH PICNICS SUNDAY FOR DAILY WORKER BENEFIT. June 13, 1924.

CONNEAUT, Ohio, June 12. The Finnish Branch of the Workers Party, will hold a great picnic next Sunday, June 15, for the benefit of the DAILY WORKER, at Branches Picnic Grounds, the corner of Lake Road and Wright Ave. Everyone is invited to come and have the best time ever, and help the DAILY WORKER spread its gospel to the workers and farmers of this country.

PINCHOT’S MEN BREAK UP BIG PHILA OUTING. June 16, 1924.

Neither the thousands of picnickers at Schuetzen Park, nor the steel state’s mounted police were disturbed from their activities by the heavy rain storm which broke here Saturday. The police rode in on the crowds of merrymakers and arrested H.M. Wicks of New York who was making the principal speech, which included remarks not flattering to the little caution in the White House. The happy picnickers were dispersed and Wicks taken to jail on the charge of “disorderly conduct.” The picnic has been scheduled for rain or shine and was for the benefit of the DAILY WORKER. The people had come in droves since morning, and were in the height of the fun when the mounted Cossacks arrived, “fashionably late,” and broke up the crowd around the speaker. The Lithuanian Singing society and the O. Lyman Union orchestra had been making the park ring with music, and the dancers were stepping it at a great rate just before the police butted in. Games of all kinds and contests of various sorts had filled the children, grown-up or otherwise, with joy. The hot dogs were yelping from the stove and everybody was gloriously happy and ready to listen with enthusiasm to the well-known speaker. But the steel trust has its own notion of how to run a state, and didn’t miss the opportunity to send its Cossacks to join the picnic and create a disturbance. The steel lords, Gary, Schwab and their gang don’t care how rowdy the Ku Klux or American Legion Fascists get in Pennsylvania, but let a bunch of honest workingmen and their families go out for a good time and they declare it’s unbecoming to the humble state of slaves and send their armed horse guards to “put sense in the workers’ heads” by knocking the men on their heads and riding as terrifyingly as possible into the ranks of the women and children. Freedom in Pennsylvania is only allowed as the steel trust sees fit. Free rein to the hoodlum Klansmen, who put the jinx on the trials of workers whose only crime was their class consciousness, like the men in the Farrell cases, but nothing doing when the workers themselves want a little fun. The steel “daddies” of little Calvin-of-the-big-White House guard their puppet’s reputation even more carefully than he does himself. Workers who don’t see what a nice, clean little boy the oily party has put in the big chair and intends to keep there, mustn’t call Cal a “strikebreaker” or anything disparaging. So H.M. Wicks from New York was arrested by the Cossacks, acting for the steel trust, when he departed from the conventional adoration-of-the-president policy allowed by the steel “daddies” who tried so hard to make congress agree with Cal in not forcing them to pay such heavy taxes. The Philadelphia workers, in spite of the lack of old Bill Penn’s “brotherly love” ideas and practices in the state named for him, are not discouraged by this latest attack upon them, and consider that their picnic wasn’t at all a failure. Rain and mounted Cossacks and arrests can’t spoil their spirit, they declare proudly, and plan even greater activities for the DAILY WORKER and for the movement in the United States for a real class Farmer-Labor party, which will ultimately tell the steel lords and Cal where to get off the map.

Detroit Delegates To St. Paul Will Report at Picnic. June 17, 1924.

The Workers party of Detroit is holding its first international picnic of the season in Campbell’s Grove park, Sunday, June 22. The success of this picnic is assured by the fact that every party branch in the city is engaged in putting it over big. The program committee has devised many new and novel stunts for the entertainment of the picnickers. The Finnish band, the Russian orchestra, the Finnish and Lithuanian choruses and other numbers of a similar character will cater to the aesthetic sense of the high-brows, while the athletic events will furnish a variety of entertainment for the roughnecks. The famous Italian United Front, which proved so effective in routing the Fascisti out of the House of the Masses recently, will give a demonstration in the newest methods of crushing the counter-revolution. The hot dog man will be very much in evidence, and there will be an abundance of cold bottles and hot cups. Detroit delegates to the St. Paul convention will have returned and will be present to tell about that historic gathering. Campbell’s Grove is an ideal picnic grounds. The dance pavilion furnishes an irresistible temptation to the nimble toed to do their stuff, and special arrangements have been made with the weather man to loosen his bag of balmy breezes. It is but two blocks from the end of the Mack Ave- car line, and there is adequate space for parking cars. Admission is 25 cents.

Young Workers League to Picnic Next Sunday in Philadelphia. June 19, 1924.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 18.- The first grand annual picnic of the Young Workers League, branch No. 2, is coming off next Sunday, June 22, at the Louis Flaxman Farm and all the young people in town who have good sense are going to be there. A glorious program of sports, dancing, eating, and everything picnicky will provide entertainment and fun for young and old. Fox Chase, car No. 50 on 5th street takes to Church Lane and the farm is nearby.

WORKERS PARTY LOCAL IN TEAPOT DOME (WASH.) TO PICNIC ON SUNDAY. June 20, 1924.

WASHINGTON, D C., June 19. Local Washington (D.C.), will hold its first picnic of the season on Sun- day, June 22, 2 p.m., at the popular picnic grounds, located at 6520 Georgia Ave., N.W. All branches, including the Young Workers’ League, have united in an effort to make this picnic an affair that will be long remembered as an exceptionally enjoyable occasion. There will be refreshments, games and many attractions. It is hoped that comrades from Baltimore and Philadelphia will come to Washington for the day.

Metal Workers Will Picnic in New York This Sun. Rain or No. June 20, 1924.

NEW YORK, June 19. The monster all-day picnic and dance arranged by the joint locals of District No. 1, Amalgamated Metal Workers of America, will be held, rain or shine, next Sunday, June 22, at Astoria Casino (formerly Schuetzen Park), at Broadway and Steinway Ave., Astoria, L.I. The entertainment committee extends a cordial invitation to all workers, especially to all machinists and metal workers, to come with their families and friends and spend a joyful day with the organized metal workers of the A.M.W.A. Thoro arrangements have been completed for a great number of all sorts of games, and numerous fine prizes will be awarded the lucky winners. There will be baseball, bowling, relay races, tugs-o’-war, etc., for young and old. Rain should not deter our friends from coming, for the picnic can be held under cover in case of rain. So come, rain or shine! This park is easily reached from New York by Queensboro subway, Astoria line, to Broadway, Astoria, also via Astoria ferry at 92nd St. and East river. From Brooklyn take B.M.T. subway to Times square and transfer to local to Bridge plaza, Long Island City. Send In that Subscription Today.

Thrill of Lifetime At Young Workers Big Picnic Today. June 21, 1924.

Did you ever come to a picnic and find yourself surrounded by a crowd of a few hundred working class children singing revolutionary songs? Have you ever seen the children of the United Workers’ Sunday School in action? Have you ever seen the junior section of the Young Workers’ League carrying on its work among other working class children? If you haven’t you have cheated yourself of a thrill that comes once in a lifetime. Come to the picnic of the United Workers’ Sunday Schools, to be held this afternoon at Brand’s Park, 3259 Elston avenue, near California and Belmont avenues. The fun starts at 2 p.m. and will continue to about midnight. Come. For the kids there will be games and other pleasures. Ice cream, yum, yum, and all sorts of good things to eat. For the older folks, there will be speakers, a concert, and for those who cannot control their feet there will be dancing. Admission at the door is 50c. If you meet someone selling tickets before the picnic starts, you can get a ticket for 35c.

Cannon to Speak at Picnic. June 24, 1924.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 23. James Cannon will be the speaker here at the third annual picnic to be held in the Speedway Grove, 85th and Troost avenue, on June 29. The picnic is held under the auspices of the Workers Party. Admission is 25 cents.

Rebel Orator Will Speak on “Prison Shadow on Labor.” June 25, 1924.

James P. Thompson, ex-political prisoner, will tell the story of the Centralia horror at Zahora Grove, Lyons, Ill., on July 4th. A grand picnic and dance will be held in conjunction with Thompson’s lecture. Thompson will retell the story of the Centralia tragedy and the jailing of union men for 40 years in Walla Walla. He will also recount for the benefit of his auditors the almost unbelievable subversion of law and order to the class rule of the lumber interests and shipping in California. As an orator, Thompson is in a class by himself. When he was re-leased from Leavenworth prison after serving six years of a twenty-year sentence, last Christmas, he returned to his home only to find his wife on her deathbed. It is this sorrow and imprisonment that has made Thompson an orator who speaks with conviction. All rebel workers are invited to attend the picnic and listen to a real rebel speech on “The Prison Shadow on Labor.” Tickets are 35 cents; obtainable at 1001 W. Madison St., Chicago.

RUSSIAN-LITHUANIAN PICNIC IN PITTSBURGH TO BE HELD JULY 4^TH. June 25, 1924.

PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 29.-A great picnic of the Russian and Lithuanian branches of the Workers Party will be held July 4 at Elwyn Park. The fun will begin at 10 a.m. and last as long as anyone stays. A program of good music is promised and there will be refreshments. Admission to men is 50 cents and to women 35 cents. Take the Washington and Charleroi cars at Wood street and get off at Elwyn station. Come on, come all!

GREAT JULY 4 PICNIC COMING TO CLEVELAND. July 1, 1924.

Howat, Foster, Manley Will Speak There. CLEVELAND, O., June 30. Three nationally significant men, all prominent in the public eye in the United States today for their activities in be- half of the workers and farmers, will make the Cleveland Workers Party branch July Fourth picnic the biggest hum-dinger yet. Alex Howat, former president of the Kansas miners, Wm. Z. Foster, and Joseph Manley, all of them on the national committee of the Farmer-Labor Party, will speak at the great demonstration of working-class spirit. Howat is chairman of the national committee of the Farmer-Labor Party, Foster represents the Workers Party on the committee, and Joseph Manley, of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party, is on the executive committee of the national Farmer-Labor Party. The picnic will be held on Russick’s Farm, all day long, July 4, and the admission is only 25 cents. Rosenthal’s Orchestra will play catchy tunes so that no one can resist dancing on the really good floor. There I will be plenty of games, contests, and sports as well as refreshments. Take the W. 25th street car to the end of the line, and then take the state road car and get off at the end of the line.

Another July 4 Picnic. July 1, 1924.

SOUTH BROWNSVILLE, Pa., June 30. The Workers Party branches of this vicinity will hold a great Fourth of July picnic at the George Crawford Farm near Allison, Pa. All workers and farmers who are interested in having a rip-roarin’ good time as well as in learning something about the Farmer-Labor movement will know where to come on July 4, all day long.

Rockford Picnic is Boost to Formation Of English Branch. July 3, 1924.

A good picnic was held by the party branches in Rockford, at the Illinois Park. The crowd showed a tremendous interest in the speech that comrade Johnstone made. The program, which started at 3 p. m. was led by one of the comrades from the recently organized Young Workers’ League, who made a short speech for the league and their purpose of organizing the youth in America. He was followed by the main speaker for the day, comrade Jack Johnstone, of the T.U.E.L. who gave a most interesting speech on the conditions today which the American workers and farmers are facing. After the program was over the dancing started and continued to 10 o’clock at night. Among the most active in the field, work were the members of the Young Workers’ League who sold most of their papers and literature. Many new recruits were brought in by the leaguers to their organization and they are sure that they are going to double their membership in a very short time. Their interest in the Communist movement is the best guarantee that the party will grow in the future here in Rockford. It is likely that there will be organized in the near future an English speaking branch here in Rockford. According to the sentiment among the workers after comrade Johnstone’s explanation of the conditions which the American workers are facing today, there was much favor to such an organization which could be able to fight in the interest of the workers. The picnic was held by the Swedish, and the Lithuanian branches of the party and the Young Workers’ League. At present plans are already laid for another picnic to strengthen our press and to spread our papers among the workers of Rockford.

SOUTH BEND TO PICNIC FOR DAILY WORKER AID AT RUM VILLAGE PARK. July 8, 1924.

SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 7. An International Picnic will be given by the city central committee of the local branch of the Workers Party at Rum Village Park on Sunday, July 13, at 1 pm. Soft drinks and other refreshments as well, as plenty of entertainment are promised all who come. Music and dancing will feature the entertainment and there will be good speakers. The profits of the picnic will go to the DAILY WORKER.

Chicago Russians Will Picnic Sunday At National Grove. July 9, 1924.

Another big picnic will be held in Chicago radicals, the Workers Party, next Sunday, July 13, at National Grove, Ill. The picnic is given by the White Russian Peoples’ Society, the South Side Children’s School and the Russian Branch of the Workers Party. This picnic will be a jolly affair. Don’t miss it. Reach the grounds by taking any car to 22nd street, 22nd street west to the end. Then La- Grange to National Grove. The grove opens at 10 o’clock.

Young Workers Hold Grand Picnic Here Next Sunday, All Day. July 9, 1924.

The Karl Liebknecht branch of the Young Workers’ League of America will hold a grand picnic at Brand’s Park, 3259 Elston Ave., on Sunday, July 13. Tickets bought in advance will be 35 cents. If purchased at the gate, they will be 50 cents. A lively program of entertainment is promised to all young workers who wish to come and enjoy a ripping good time. From 10 a.m. to whenever the music stops–there will be fun for all who come. Bring your friends, young workers, whether they belong to the league or not and get them interested in the peppiest bunch of young people in the country.

Neffs Plans Picnic Next Sunday to Aid Daily Worker Fight. July 9, 1924.

NEFFS, Ohio, July 8. A great crowd of workers and farmers from this vicinity is expected to attend the big picnic which comes off at Charlie Perunko’s Farm on Sunday. July 13. Admission is free and there will be plenty of good music, dancing, and other entertainment as well as delicious refreshments. The proceeds of the picnic will be divided between the DAILY WORKER and the language federations’ papers. Everybody come, is the word.

Philadelphia Young Workers to Picnic On Farm on Sunday. July 11, 1924.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 10. The downtown branch of the Young Workers League are inviting everyone interested in their movement to join them in a big picnic, their third annual, at the Flaxman Farm, on Sunday, July 13. Sports, games, amusements of all kinds and plenty of good eats are promised. Real country unwatered milk will be sold over the bar without interference by prohibition agents, and fresh eggs will be obtainable from the henyards instead of the cold storage cases. Come one, come all, is the word of the Young Workers, if you want to have a good time. Directions: Take car 50 to 5th St. and go till Church line.

CELEBRATES AT SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. July 12, 1924.

Barney Mass will speak at the Springfield (III.) Y.W.L. picnic, Sunday, July 20. There will be games, sports, dancing and other varieties of entertainment. In addition to this, the league orchestra will be present to sooth every comrades nerves with its exceptionally melodious music. Many other surprises are in store for those coming.

GET READY! GET SET! GO! PARTY PRESS PICNIC! July 14, 1916.

Everybody Will Be at Riverview, August 10. Riverview! That El Dorado of Twentieth Century Chicago (where even the most hopelessly rheumatic of us wend our way at least once a year, to seek a few hours of merry childhood! The Workers Party Press Picnic will be held at Riverview on Sunday, August 10th, with the annual round of dancing and entertainment, sports, games, refreshments, and a few good working class speakers. The picnic will be international as only a press picnic can be; the proceeds will go to build up not only the DAILY WORKER, but also the various language papers of the Party–Finnish, Russian, Jewish, Hungarian, Italian, Greek, South Slavic, Lithuanian, Polish, etc. The language groups will all be represented in the entertainment, which will consist of tableau, folk dancing, and similar items. As an added attraction, it is rumored that Sam Hammersmark has offered to wrestle with Frank Buckley (ne Buzzie). Special Privileges At last. Beautiful yellow tickets, twenty inches long, looking like railroad tickets to Yellowstone Park or the Belgium Congo, are already on hand in the City Office, Room 303, 166 West Washington Street, and can be purchased for 35c each. The ticket not only admits one to the Party Picnic, but also gives one the benefit of reduced rates on many of the famous Riverview specialties, including the “Bug House,” “Chutes,” “Big Dipper” -and the much suspected but some- how still respectable, “Mill on the Floss.” Between dances at the Party picnic or between games-you can go out into the Park and listen to the famous Riverview Brass Band, or break your neck riding on “The Bobs,” or amuse yourself in one of the more quiet pastimes. Members of the Workers Party have indicated that they are going to make a special effort to “put over” the Press Picnic in fine style. They recognize that, now as never before, the press of the Party needs money and, now as never before, the Party press is proving its worth to the Party.

Buffalo Picnic. July 15, 1924.

Sunday, July 20. The workers party Picnic at Woodlawn Beach, Seventh St. Finnish Grounds. A good program is arranged for this picnic and all comrades in Buffalo and vicinity are requested to co-operate with the committee and make this picnic a success. An enlarged meeting of the D.E.C. will be held on the picnic grounds. The out of town members of the D.E.C. are urgently requested to attend this meeting as we have urgent business to transact.

BOUCK SPEAKS AT GRAND PICNIC NEXT SATURDAY. July 15, 1934.

Washington Farmers Meet Near Seattle. (Special to the Daily Worker.) SEATTLE, Wash., July 14. William Bouck, head of the Western Progressive Farmers and withdrawn Farmer- Labor candidate for vice president, will speak at a picnic to be given in the City park, Renton, on Saturday, July 26. Many other speakers listed as among the possible features of the picnic include John C. Kennedy, state secretary of the Farmer-Labor party; Joel Shomaker, Farmer-Labor candidate for governor; EE. Coulter and Elmer S. Smith. The picnic is to be given under the auspices of the King County Farmer-Labor party, the Western Progressive Farmers and the Farmers’ Chautauqua. The King County Farmer-Labor Party has a membership of several thousand voters and active workers in the city of Seattle and the towns and villages of the county, as well as on the farms. The city fathers of Renton have extended the hospitalities of the municipality and will deliver the keys of the city hall and jail to the managers of the Western Farmers’ Chautauqua.

N.Y. PLANS BIG ATHLETIC FETE, PICNIC, AUG. 10. July 23, 1924.

International Sports Program Arranged NEW YORK, July 22. Arrangements for the Local New York Athletic Carnival and Picnic are going ahead full blast. The affair will be held Sunday, August 10th, at Pleasant Bay Park, Bronx, N.Y. The Workers Sports Alliance, an organization that has endorsed the Red Sports International, is taking care of the athletic arrangements. The Red Sports International aims to encourage sports amongst workers. It is in this spirit that the City Central Committee arranged this carnival. All the Finnish Athletic Clubs, the Czecho-Slovak, Jugo-Slovac, German Sports Club as well as the English branches are getting behind the affair to help make it a tremendous success. The enthusiasm that has been created will make this picnic a real party affair with the entire membership behind it. Present indications point to an affair which for its size has never been equaled in the history of Party functions in this City. Pleasant Bay Park is a beautiful stretch of land located in the heart of the Bronx. Not only is there plenty of woodland for the athletic events, but there are also plenty shady groves overlooking Long Island Sound where comrades can spend a day of rest amidst pleasant surroundings. The place is easily accessible from all parts of the city. The following are a list of sports: Special Events. 1-Three mile run. 2-1,500 metre medley relay-100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 800 metres. 3-Running-100 metres, 400 metres, 800 metres. 4-Running broad jump, hop skip and jump, high jump. 5-12-pound shop put, discus, javelin. 6-Fat man’s race, minimum weight 190 lbs. Events for Women Only. 1-70 metre run. 2-400 metre run. Special for Young Workers League. Three-legged race. Junior Section Events. 1-200 metre relay. 2-Sack race. Baseball Young Workers League versus Workers Party RULES 1-All entrants must be members of Workers Party, Young Workers League, Junior Section, labor union or fraternal organization. 2-No individual can enter more than three events. 3-Young Workers League members are eligible to other events besides the one exclusively for them. Juniors may enter the Y. W. L. event. 4-All events and measurements based on Olympic rules. PRIZES Pennants will be awarded the winners in the baseball game. Medals will be awarded to winners in all other events. All entries must be sent in immediately. Comrades and sympathizers are urged to sell tickets to help make this affair a huge financial success. The party needs the money. A great deal of work is before us, but the question of finance is à troublesome factor that hampers our work constantly.

PRESS PICNIC PROMISES SURPRISES, MUCH FUN FOR CHICAGO WORKERS. July 31, 1924.

August means comfortable vacations for the darlings of the present system, but now and then a worker gets a chance to do a little vacationing himself. August 10th is the date of the monster Press Picnic of the Workers Party, Local Chicago–a real workers’ holiday outing. the way in which workers of all nationalities and ages are clamoring for tickets at 35 cents each, it is already certain that the annual day of merrymaking at Riverview Park, corner Roscoe and Western avenues, will be the most successful one in the history of these affairs. Entertainment is in the hands of George Maurer and Hans Peterson, the noted vaudeville team, who will either perform on the trapeze or on something else-undoubtedly something else. Just what the nature of the entertainment is to be they refuse to disclose. There are all sorts of rumors, none of which seems to have much sense to it. Anyway, the interest in the picnic is all the more keen because of the surprise for which everyone is waiting. It is now announced definitely by the Picnic Committee that there will be dancing in the open-air pavilion to the strains of lively, up-to-date music from early in the day until long after the moon has come out. The speaker of the day will be C.E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary of the Workers Party. Ruthenberg needs. no introduction to Chicago gatherings, nor to any gathering of the working class in America. He has been in the forefront of the labor struggle for years and is at the present time out on bail, pending his appeal from the trumped-up conviction in the famous Michigan case.

MILWAUKEE TO PROTEST WARS IN BIG PICNIC. July 31, 1924.

Meet Sunday; Engdahl Will Speak MILWAUKEE, July 29. Workers of this city and vicinity are invited to join in the great anti-war and anti militarism demonstration to be held Sunday, August 3, at Castella Gardens. The park will open at 10 o’clock and everybody will enjoy the fine musical program and the speaking. J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, will be the chief speaker. He will point out the real fight for the workers is against the capitalist bosses. He will show how the social democrats all over the world have betrayed the workers in time of war by forgetting all their pretty pacifist phrases. Come and bring your picnic lunch and invite your friends, is the word to pass around. Take the Wells-Wautosa car to 51st Street, and walk two blocks north. The mass meeting and picnic are under the auspices of the Workers Party and are part of the world-wide Communist demonstrations of this anniversary week of the last world war against all wars of capitalism.

Cleveland Young Workers. August 1, 1924.

Cleveland, O., July 31. Young Workers League, West Side English Branch, picnic at Lorain Ave and 117th St. on Sunday, Aug. 3, from 11 a.m. on. There will be a Program of Sports, including fifty-yard dash for boys; fifty-yard dash for girls; hundred yard dash for men; hundred yard dash for women; fat men’s race, 100 yards; fat women’s race, 50 yards. Prizes will be given, such as candy, fountain pens, string of beads, etc. The Committee in charge insures all Young Workers and Old Workers a good time. A special invitation is extended to all Party and League members and sympathizers. Admission will be 25 cents.

Dillonvale Young Workers to Picnic. August 4, 1924.

DILLONVALE, Ohio, Aug. 3. An International Picnic will be the feature of the day next Sunday, Aug. 10. The Young Workers’ League are re- sponsible and promise everybody who comes to the Joa Kasal place, East Dillonvale, a grand good time. There will be an orchestra playing that will make the feet itch until they dance. Special entertainment will be part of the program. Speakers in English will address the happy crowd and refreshments will save the hungry and thirsty from a sad end. All profits will go to the benefit of the Young Workers’ League of America and boost the youth movement of the working class thruout the country. Admission for men is 25 cents; for women 10 cents; and everybody is welcome.

Young Workers Plan Picnics with Soviet Technical Aid Group. August 6, 1924.

In response to the call sent out by the National Office of the Young Workers League to help finance their semi-monthly organ, THE YOUNG WORKER, the Chicago League is making hasty preparations for a big Picnic to be held in conjunction with the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia on Sunday, August the 24th at National Grove, Riverside, Ill. Amusements such as soccer ball games, baseball, races of all kinds, bowling, dancing and music will be of course abundant. All the Chicago Junior Groups will take part in this Picnic. There will be speakers, there will be Junior demonstrations. The Juniors of Chicago will do their share to help raise finances for their official organ, THE YOUNG COMRADE. This promises to be an unusually interesting picnic. More details will follow.

N.Y. ATHLETIC CARNIVAL TO BE SPEECHLESS DAY. August 6, 1924.

All for Sport and Fun at Aug. 10 Picnic NEW YORK, Aug. 5. Final arrangements have been made for the August 10th Athletic Carnival and Picnic to be held by the local New York Workers Party. The Young Workers League and the Junior Section are helping to make this one of the greatest events in the history of New York. The Park will be decorated in a novel way. A running track has been built specially for the athletic events. The American Section of the Red Sport International will show their athletic propensities on that day. After the athletic events there will be a baseball game between the Young Workers League and the Workers Party. The Young Workers will have in their line up amongst others, comrades Holland, Darcy and Zam, who will slip them over against the Workers Party. In the Workers Party lineup will be found Ben Gitlow, the candidate for Vice-President of the W. P. ticket, Arthur Leeds, Nessin, Krumbein and others. Harry M. Winitzky, who got his experience umpiring games at Sing Sing will decide balls and strikes.  The facilities of the park are well suited for the affair. Located Just at the edge of the Sound it will enable the poetic souls to watch the waves. Numerous benches, all in deep shade and under large trees will give com- fort to the crowd. There is plenty of grass for those willing to get closer to earth. Swings and merry-go-rounds promise days of joy for the kiddies. There will be dancing in a covered pavilion as well as in the open for those interested in another movement. The Finnish South Brooklyn Brass Band will supply the music for the occasion. Food will be dispensed in a generous and efficient manner. There will be no speeches. The park is easy to get from any part of the city. The Bronx Park subway, eastside or westside to 177th street, then change for the Unionport street car to the east end of the line. An eight minute walk or bus will bring you to the park. Admission is 25 cents.

New York on Edge For Big Picnic of Sunday, August 10. August 7, 1924.

Present indications point to one of the most successful picnics that Local New York has ever arranged. Sunday, August 10, promises to be a great day for the thousands of Workers Party members and friends who will gather in Pleasant Bay Park, Bronx. The whole party membership of Local New York as well as the Young Workers’ League and Junior Section are mobilizing their forces for the athletic events–with just two weeks left to the picnic, close to 100 entries have already been received. Keen rivalry is also being displayed by the Finnish, Checko-Slovak branches, etc. Entries are coming in daily. Among others there is a sack race for both Juniors and members of the Y.W.L., a three-legged race open to all members besides various other races. Special races have been worked out for women comrades. Beautiful silver and bronze medals with the Hammer and Sickle engraved will be awarded the winners. A base ball game between the Y.W.L. and the party has been arranged. Ben Gitlow, vice-presidential candidate, will play for the Workers Party. Harry Winitzky, who umpired many games during his vacation in Sing Sing will act as umpire. The Y.W.L. is making great efforts to organize a team that will beat the party and incidentally gain the silk pennant which will be awarded the winner. Entries can be sent in until Saturday, August 2nd. No comrade can enter more than three events. No entries will be accepted after that date.

THOUSANDS TO GATHER AT BIG PRESS PICNIC. August 8, 1924.

Riverview Park the Place Next Sunday. One hundred Workers Party members will be at the gates of Riverview Park selling tickets for the various attractions at the Press Picnic which will be held at Riverview Park this Sunday. These tickets not only admit the bearer to the park, but entitle him to a reduced rate on all the regular attractions in Riverview Park. One of the most interesting attractions at the Press Picnic will be the “presidential comedy,” where the supporters of the Workers Party press will be given a chance to show what they think of the capitalist old party presidential candidates. Those who attend the picnic should be careful to patronize only the Workers Party refreshment booths, as there will be other booths on the Riverview Park grounds which are not connected with the party picnic. Signs will be posted on the Workers Party booths. In addition to these booths, food will be served in the excellent dining room. Attractions have been arranged by the various language papers, of special interest to the foreign branches. A large modern dance floor, combined with a seven-piece orchestra, will furnish entertainment for patrons of the terpsichorean art. In addition, the satisfaction of hitting the presidential candidates in the nose, the speech of CE. Ruthenberg, executive secretary of the Workers Party, the refreshments and concessions on the other Riverview Park attractions, are expected to combine to make the Press Picnic the biggest Workers Party get-together in years. All profits go to the DAILY WORKER and other party papers.

Springfield Y.W.L. Picnic. August 8, 1924.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. The Young Workers League branch here has arranged a picnic for Sunday, August 10. This affair has been a ranged in order to raise money for the national organization. The committee has been very active in arranging the picnic and pre paring interesting games for those who will attend. There will be dancing, the music to be furnished by the famous Doo Dad band. The picnic will be held on Sponsler’s farm, 7th and Sangamon avenues. Admission is free.

PRESS PICNIC IS YOUR PLAN FOR TOMORROW. August 9, 1924.

Don’t Miss Party Fete at Riverview Are you all set for the Workers Party Press Picnic tomorrow at Riverview Park? Rain or shine, you won’t want to miss the fun. Everybody will be there. You can throw all the “bricks” you want at the presidential nominees of the three old parties and throw all the bouquets to the real working class candidates, Foster and Gitlow. Lydia Gibson drew the clever caricatures of the capitalist family: Cal, Hell-an’-Maria, Johnny, Charlie, Bob, Burt; so you can have targets for your ire against the bosses. There will be special Workers Party and Young Workers’ League ticket sellers from whom you are to buy admission into all concessions. And don’t forget to patronize the Workers Party refreshment booths. The Juniors will be delighted with all the possibilities of fun at Riverview; so be sure to encourage them to bring their parents along. C.E. Ruthenberg will be the chief speak- er and will tell a lot of good news about the campaign for the Workers Party thruout the United States. There will be special stunts arranged by the various party papers which are to profit by the proceeds of the picnic and the big dancing pavilion will be irresistible with the splendid orchestra that has been engaged. If you think you can afford to stay away from this mammoth Press Picnic, try it, but you’ll never hear the end of it from the people who were wise and went!

Ohio Workers Will Picnic This Sunday. August 9, 1924.

LIVERPOOL, O., Aug. 8. Workers from Liverpool, East Liverpool, Toronto and Steubenville, Ohio, and Chester, W. Va., and Midland, Pa. will enjoy coming to the picnic arranged for Sunday, Aug. 10, by the Workers Party branch. The place is Pritchard’s in Westfield: take the Y. and O. car. There will be special attractions on the program of entertainment and two or more splendid speakers, in English and in Russian. Everyone is invited to come and bring all his friends.

The Press Picnic. August 9, 1924.

Sunday one of the most important Workers Party affairs of the season will be held in River- view Park. It is the Press Picnic. If we only had to consider the amusement which one always finds at our picnics perhaps we might not dignify the occasion with an editorial. But there is something more important. The press is the most powerful weapon in the hands of the revolutionary movement. Without it we could not reach the masses with the message of Communism. We would not be in a position to expose the capitalist system, for what it is, a system of robbery, murder and corruption. We would not be in a position to show up the plots of the capitalists, their plans that lead to wars and other tragedies. We would not be able to organize the most class conscious workers into a revolutionary party that will lead the workers in their fight to overthrow capitalism and establish the Workers and Farmers Government. Therefore picnics and such affairs are of great importance to the revolutionary movement because the proceeds provide us with the sinews of war to keep our papers going. With the DAILY WORKER in the field next Sunday’s affair will have added interest for the members of our party and those friends who, tho not members of the party, are yet willing to help the DAILY WORKER in every possible way. Every member of the party should assist in making the Press Picnic a success. Be on the job next Sunday and between now and next Sunday sell as many tickets as possible and induce your acquaintances to help swell the crowd at Riverview Park. The money realized from the picnic will go to the DAILY WORKER, and our other papers.

Steel Workers Plan Two Huge Meetings to Welcome Foster. August 11, 1924.

GIRARD, O., An International Picnic and Mass Meeting will be held here at Avon Park on Sunday, August 17, at 2 p.m. to welcome William Z. Foster, Workers Party candidate for president. The leader of the great 1919 steel strike will deliver his first campaign speech to the workers of the Mahoning valley and surrounding territory. There will be an evening meeting at Ukrainian Hall, 525 1/2 West Rayen Avenue, Youngstown, Ohio, at 8 p.m. for those who cannot attend the afternoon meeting. From the present eagerness of the workers to hear Foster, it is expected that both meetings will be exceptionally well attended. The steel workers here-abouts are all for the working class candidate.

Picnic Successful. August 11, 1924.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. The West Side English Branch of the Young Workers’ League, held a very successful picnic, Sunday, Aug. 3, attended by over 200 young and old workers. The following were winners in the various sport events: Sack race, Edward Folatko; women’s race, Olga Koski; 100-yard dash for men, Hannes Holtman; 50-yard dash for fat women, Nery Auvinen, first; Sauelma Delin, second; 100-yard dash for fat men, Paul Holtman, first; Bert Rankin, second. A large number of copies of the Young Worker were sold. The committee in charge consisted of Comrades Ranokan, Murphy, and Ellen Murphy.

Frisco Will Hold Picnic for Relief Of German Workers. August 12, 1924.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., A day and moonlight picnic, under the auspices of the San Francisco committee for International Workers Aid, will be held Sunday, August 17, at the Neptune Beach. Aside from the numerous enjoyments and sports, a unique review will be given by Ellen Rose’s gifted young pupils, some of whom are only 2 years old. Herman Nudin, leader of the Jugend Movement in Germany, recently arrived here, will speak on conditions in Germany as observed at first hand. He is a stirring speaker and has a large fund of knowledge. The recent Communist victory in Germany indicates the necessity of class conscious workers giving their utmost support to the relief of the German proletariat at this time. 2,000 tickets are to sold in advance, price 25 cents.

FOSTER SPEAKS AT YOUNGSTOWN SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. August 14, 1924.

William Z. Foster, presidential candidate of the Workers Party, speaks Sunday at Youngstown, O., in the first big meeting in his presidential campaign. Located in the heart of the great steel industry, where Foster led the great strike of steel workers in 1919, Youngstown is a fitting place for this first great gathering. Thousands of workers are expected at the picnic at Avalon Park, Sunday afternoon, while at night Foster will speak at Ukrainian Hall, 5252 West Rayen Ave., Youngstown.

Baseball Game and Tug of War Feature New Chicago Picnic. August 14, 1924.

All Chicago is keen for the picnic being arranged jointly by the Young Workers’ League and the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia to be held Sunday, August 24, at the National Grove. The league’s share of the proceeds is going to the support of its. press, The Young Worker and The Young Comrade. Among the features definitely arranged are a ball game of the Karl Liebknecht branch of the league and a tug of war between the other Chi-ago branches. Among those already lined up are the West Side vs. North Side; John Reed vs. Rosa Luxemburg; Maplewood vs. Karl Liebknecht; Rykov vs. Marshfield and Irving Park vs. Bridgeport. The juniors are keeping secret a surprise program which they intend to spring. Tickets are 35 cents in advance and 50 cents at the gate, and can be obtained from any league, party or Technical Aid Society member.

Surprises Prepared At Picnic of Hersh Lekert Y.W.L. August 14, 1924.

Branch The Hersh Lekert branch of the Young Workers’ League is giving a basket picnic on Sunday, August 17, at Milwaukee Woods, which can be reached by taking any car to Milwaukee Avenue and then hopping on a Milwaukee-Gale car to the end of the line where you will be awaited by a committee. Do not take any food with you since refreshments will be provided on the grounds. Many surprises have been prepared.

Foster Speaks In Ohio. August 15, 1924.

GIRARD, Ohio, Aug. 14. Wm. Z. Foster, leader of the great steel strike and candidate for president, will speak at the International Picnic and Mass Meeting at Avon Park, Girard, Ohio, Sunday, August 17, at 2. p.m. There will be an evening meeting at the Ukrainian Hall, 525 W. Rayen Avenue, Youngstown, Ohio.

Too Much for Cops. August 19, 1924.

The comrades of Dillonville, Ohio, had a very successful picnic, with an attendance of over 400 people. There were games, dancing and other features of entertainment. The comrades had such a good time that it aroused the ire of the cops around here, and they simply had to pinch some of our fellows and fine them. All receipts went to the Young Workers League. Joe Kobylak, Jr.

Grand Rapids, Mich. August 20, 1924.

On Sunday, August 24, at 10 a.m., at Richmond Park, the Grand Rapids City Central Committee of the Workers Party will hold a picnic and entertainment. All comrades are invited to attend and bring their friends.

Los Angeles, Attention! August 20, 1924.

Sunday, August 24th will be a gala day for the comrades of Los Angeles. Everyone will attend the joy-ride and picnic at Tapanga Canyon Beach where there will be games, entertainments, dancing and refreshments galore. Tickets 75c including transportation. Trucks and autos will leave from corner Soto and Brooklyn Aves. at 9 in the morning. Directions to the picnic: Follow Santa Monica Beach road to first new concrete bridge-it’s just the other side of the bridge.

Picnic in Philadelphia. August 22, 1924.

A monster picnic will be given by the Russian Community House, Sunday, August 24, on Bradley’s Farm, 92nd St. and Vance Ave., near Hog Island. To get to the picnic take Subway No. 37, stop at 87th St., where a committee will meet you.

ATHLETICS FEATURE Y.W.L.-TECHNICAL AID PICNIC SUNDAY. August 22, 1924.

Communists, young and old, will participate in all the athletic events which will be given at the Joint Picnic this Sunday. The picnic will be held under the auspices of the Young Workers’ League of Chicago and the Society for Technical Aid for the United Socialist Soviet Republic at the National Grove, Riverside, Illinois. The feature will be a tug of war, with the following combatants: FIRST EVENT. Maplewood Branch Y.W.L. vs. Liebknecht Branch Y.W.L. SECOND EVENT. North Side Branch Y.W.L. vs. West Side Branch Y.W.L. THIRD EVENT. Johon Reed Branch Y.W.L. vs. Hirsch Likert Branch Y.W.L. FOURTH EVENT. Luxembourg Branch Y. W. L. vs. Illytch (Lenin) Branch Y.W.L. After these events are staged the branch winning against all others will fight a grand tug of war against the Technical Aid. It will be interesting to see the Y.W.L. huskies match up against these Russian Giants. In addition to the program offered there will also be games for the junior section as well as a Fat Man’s race, three legged race, apple races and also special races for girls and women.

Rockford, Ill., Press Picnic. August 22, 1924.

Rockford, Ill., is preparing for a grand celebration at its Press Picnic at Illinois Park Sunday, Aug. 24. The arrangements committee promises many amusements and entertainments. Bring the whole family. Fun and games for the kiddies, dancing for young folks and a rich program of entertainments for all. All the proceeds from this picnic will be divided evenly between the DAILY WORKER and “Ny Tid” the Swedish party organ.

HOT PUPPIES! SUNDAY WILL SEE PICNIC OF THE YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE AND TECH AID SOCIETY. August 23, 1924.

Everybody out to the National Grove this coming Sunday. What’s on? What a foolish question! why, of course, the Young Workers League and the Society of Technical Aid to Soviet Russia. Rain or   shine you’re guaranteed a wonderful time. A snappy program is being made by the city sports and social director. On the list of enjoyments are bowling, music and dancing for the youth. A real jazzy jazz band will pour out the wonderful jazz music into the flowing atmosphere. The main speaker of the afternoon will be Barney D. Mass of the Young Workers League. Chief among the  sports of the afternoon will be a tug-of-war between the branches. The winning branch will receive a prize. Then the all-star Y.W.L. team will tug against the 4 all star Russian team. Here’s the lineup of the branches: Karl Liebknecht vs. Maplewood, West Side vs. North Side, Hirsch Leckert, vs. John Reed, Rosa Luxemburg vs. Illytch. and Rykov vs. Marshfield. The other branches will compete if present with full membership. There will also be some races. A first class program will be given by the cream of the Communist movement, two of the ‘‘Junior Groups.” The meals will be taken care of by the Russians so your food is being taken good care of. Owing to the Prohibition Law no kimmel or vodka will be allowed into the picnic grounds.

Picnics This Sunday. August 23, 1924.

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Finnish Picnic Grounds, Lorain Ave, and W. 117th St., Sunday, August 24. To get to grounds: Take Lorain 117th St. car walk five blocks south. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Picnic given by the Russian Community House, Sunday, Aug. 24, on Bradley’s Farm, 92nd St. and Vance Ave., near Hog Island. To get to the picnic take Subway No. 37, stop at 87th St., where a committee will meet you. ROCKFORD, Ill.-Press Picnic at Illinois Park, Sunday, Aug. 24.

Sunday Picnic in New Jersey. August 23, 1924.

Hudson County, N.J., comrade who have not met in many months will meet again at the Hudson County Workers Party annual picnic on Sunday, Aug. 24, at Zeman’s Park Hackensack Plank Road at the foot of Lewis Street. How to get to the park from New York: take Hudson Tubes, get off at Summit Station, take Blvd. bus and get off at Lewis Street. Walk one block west.

Barbecue for Los Angeles. August 25, 1924.

The Workers Party, the Young Workers League and the Trade Union Educational League of Los Angeles have gotten together and are going to have a Barbecue Picnic on Sunday, August 31st, at Rose Hill Park. Jack Carney, Editor of Labor Unity, will address the picnic. Tickets 35 cents.

HILARITY WILL HOLD FORTH AT T.U.E.L. PICNIC. August 27, 1924.  

Noted Mirthmakers to Grace Occasion. The Labor Day Picnic of the Trade Union Educational League is expected to beat all attendance records of the season. It will be the last big outdoor social affair of the year and trade union left wingers, Communists and sympathisers are sure to be there for a day of real enjoyment. The usual games will be played and prizes will be awarded. Sam Hammersmark was induced to donate one of his famous five cent cigars as a prize to the best ball thrower. Max Shachtman, editor of the Young Worker, and Earl Browder, editor of the Labor Herald, are expected to lead the editorial popularity contest, Journalists being ideals, no prizes are offered, but T.J. O’Flaherty promises to immortalize the winner in his column. Anton Overgaard, Jack Johnstone, Walt Carmon and J. Ramirez are scheduled to run a two legged race with Moritz Loeb, Nick Dozenberg, Barney Mass and Al Schapp. Besides the fun a political complexion will be given the affair by having the Workers Party candidate for senator of Illinois, J. Louis Engdahl, address the picknickers. This does not begin to tell half of what is liable to happen at the Labor Day picnic. But see for yourself. Admission is 35 cents. To get there, take a Forest Park “L.” or Madison St. Car and transfer to suburban line.

CLEVELAND W.P. TO HOLD PICNIC ON LABOR DAY. August 28, 1924.

Party Preparing for Gitlow Meeting CLEVELAND, O., The last picnic of the season by Local Cleve land, Workers Party, will be held on Labor Day, at Russick’s Farm. All party members should arrange to spend the day at this picnic in order to help make this last affair a rousing success The program of entertainment includes sports, dancing, and a speech by Comrade Brahtin, Candidate for Congress from the 21st Congressional District. Comrade Brahtin is one of the best-informed comrades in the Cleveland Local and his talk will be well worth the hearing. The sports will include a Potato Race, Tug of War, Sack Race, and Running Race for Men, for Women, and for Children. Take the West 25th car to the end, then the State Road car to the end; 1/4 mile west of the car line is the picnic ground, on Russick’s Farm. Automobiles take the Ridge Road to Bean Road, left on Bean Road to State Road, left on State Road to Russick’s Farm. The Collinwood Branches are holding street meetings at the corner of School and East 152d. All party members and sympathizers in that section should turn out and help make these meetings successful; held on Saturday night, at 7 p.m. Preparations are being made for large crowd to hear Comrade Ben Gitlow, candidate for Vice-President, when he speaks here Sunday, Sept. 7, at 7:30 pm., at the Bricklayers Hall, East 21st St. near Prospect. Admission will be 25 cents. Reserve this date, and advertise it among your friends and at your union or fraternal meeting.

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924.