U.S. radicals raise money to ‘aid Nicaraguans shot by Marines of U.S. empire’ with an ‘Enlist with Sandino’ campaign of medical relief.

‘Medical Supply Campaign Is Begun for Nicaragua’ from The Daily Worker. Vol. 5 No. 54. March 5, 1928.

“Enlist with Sandino,” is the watchword of the Sandino medical supply campaign launched yesterday by the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, whose United States headquarters are at 39 Union Square.

Although he is well supplied with arms and ammunition taken from the enemy, General Augusto Sandino has written to the Mexican Headquarters of the Hands-Off-Nicaragua Committee that his wounded soldiers “are dying like dogs on the roads” from lack of medical supplies.

The All-America Anti-Imperialist League is sending out 25,000 descriptive folders on the situation in Nicaragua. A list of 10,000 contributors is being circulated through the mails and individuals receiving them will solicit funds. A direct appeal will be made to the labor movement through speakers going before local trade unions.

Checks or money orders for the Sandino Medical Supply Fund should be made out to the All-America Anti-Imperialist League and sent either to the district office or to the national headquarters.

“This is the most important campaign we have ever undertaken,” Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, said yesterday.

“The drive should become part of the anti-war activities of every organization which declares itself against the war in Nicaragua. At every meeting called, for no matter what purpose, collections should be taken up for the Sandino Medical Supply Fund.

“All money collected will be sent to the Hands-Off Nicaragua. At every meeting called, for no matter what purpose, collections should be taken up for the Sandino Medical Supply Fund.

“All money collected will be sent to the Hands-Off Nicaragua Committee at Mexico City, the treasurer of which is Prof. Rafael Ramos Fodrueza. The committee in Mexico is working in close cooperation with the Nicaraguan Red Cross and in turn makes its shipments through Mr. Froylan Turcios, the accredited representative of General Sandino.

“In Mexico City and Salvador a campaign for funds has been carried on for some time and now the campaign is spreading throughout all America.”

In addition to its campaign exposing the imperialistic invasion of Nicaragua for the purpose of safeguarding investments of American capitalists, the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, 39 Union Square, New York has just initiated a movement to render medical assistance to the soldiers’ of Gen. Augusto Sandino’s revolutionary army. Photograph shows three New York young women who have volunteered to aid in this phase of the League’s activities.

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. National and City (New York and environs) editions exist.

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