Communist Party I.W.D. events for 1933 in New York City.

‘Women’s Day Meets in All Parts of City’ from The Daily Worker. Vol. 10 No. 57. March 8, 1933.

NEW YORK. Workers, men and women, Negro and white, will celebrate International Women’s Day throughout the city today in common with celebrations all over the world and in the Soviet Union, where women have won their freedom. Men and women of the needle trades will celebrate the day at a mass meeting and demonstration tonight, right after work, at Bryant Hall, Sixth Avenue, between 41st and 42nd Streets. Clarence Hathaway, organizer of the Communist Party, will be the main speaker. Other speakers will be Rose Wortis. Assistant secretary of the Industrial Union, Grace Banfieid. active Negro worker. Helen Allison will act as chairman. A very interesting program has been arranged, which will include Feldman, a violinist. Rose Namy, a singer, and Brone Ghom, head of the Dancer’s Theater. The working women in the needle trades have been in the forefront of the struggle in the building of the union, and are today among the best fighters in the needle trades. Young women workers who have entered the trade are beginning to respond to the message of organization and are joining the union in the hundreds.

The March 8th demonstration, organized for the first time by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, will review the important role of the women workers in the struggle and mobilize the needle trades workers to extend the work among the women on the broadest scale so as to unite them together with the men workers in struggle for better conditions against all forms of discrimination and for building and fortifying the Industrial Union. All needle trades workers are called upon to come to this demonstration.

Section 15 of the Communist Party has arranged a mass rally for International Women’s Day at the Tremont Auditorium, 2075 Clinton Avenue. Bronx, tonight, at 8 p.m. Prominent speakers will address the meeting, and an excellent program has been arranged. Workers’ organizations have pledged to give their fullest support. Striking tenants and block committees will march to this meeting with banners. The working women’s organization of the Bronx are actively mobilizing women in the shops and neighborhoods to rally on this day. Hundreds of women are in the forefront of struggles that are going on in the Bronx. Women are at the head of house and block committees in the rent strikes. Giris and women in the dress shops in the Bronx are conducting a militant strike against miserable conditions. These girls and women engaged in the struggles are the most active in their support of International Women’s Day.

In the Brownsville section of Brooklyn workers will march through the streets and hold an open-air demonstration in celebration of International Women’s Day. A parade will start at 12 noon from Buffalo and Atlantic Avenues and wind its way through the working class neighborhoods to Sutter and Pennsylvania Avenues in New York. Here the open-air demonstration will be held. Tonight, at 8 p.m. a mass meeting and concert, with prominent speakers and exceptional entertainment, will continue the celebration at 1813 Pitkin Avenue. Admission to this meeting is free. Both events are under the leadership of the Communist Party. Section 8, and the Women’s Council of Brownsville.

Charlotte Todes, writer on labor subjects and union organizer, now a member of the Daily Worker staff, and Sam Brown, recently released from jail after serving a six month jail sentence, and delegate to the Albany Conference, will be the main speakers at the International Women’s Day meeting in Harlem tonight at the Spanish Workers Centre, 1413 Fifth Avenue, near 116th Street. The international character of the day will be brought out by entertainment given by various groups. Selections will be rendered by the Finnish Chorus, and Spanish, German and Italian workers, who make up a large part of the population of Harlem. The meeting is called by Section 4 of the Communist Party. Admission is free.

In Coney Island, at the Workers Center, 27th Street and Mermaid Avenue, an extensive entertainment program is also being prepared for this evening. The Coney Island Workers Chorus will sing. Ruth Corey will recite, the dramatic section will present a play, and Garber will play the concertina Admission is also free.

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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