‘Mass Funeral Today to Honor Clara Gabin’ from The Daily Worker. Vol. 5 No. 8. January 10, 1933.

NEW YORK. The following statement has been issued by Section 2, of the Communist Party:

“The death of Comrade Clara Gabin has meant the loss of an active comrade and a militant fighter in the ranks of the Communist Party. Comrade Gabin, who was a charter member of the Communist Party, was an outstanding fighter in the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. She tirelessly participated in all struggles of the union.

“The members of Section 2 of the Communist Party who were acquainted with Comrade Gabin, and who knew of her years of active participation in all struggles of the workers, are deeply grieved over the loss of Comrade Gabin from our ranks. We pledge to make up for this loss by more energetic activity.

“Workers of midtown Manhattan and members of the Communist Party of Section 2 are called upon to come to the funeral which will take place from the headquarters of the N.T.W.I.U., 131 W. 28th St., New York, at 2 P.M. Tuesday, January 10. The body will be brought to the Workers Center at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, and will lie in state on the second floor until the funeral takes place.”

Union Holds Mass Funeral

The body of Clara Gabin lay in state last night in the office of the Needle Workers Industrial Union, 131 W. 28th St. The funeral procession today will pass the union office where a mass meeting in honor of Clara Gabin will then be taking place.

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.

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