Reflecting its widening mandate, the headquarters of the U.S. section of Workers International Relief moves to a new space, 131 W. 28th St. in Manhattan, to host its many activities.
‘Workers International Relief Moves to Larger Quarters’ from The Daily Worker. Vol. 7 No. 278. November 20, 1930.
START BIG PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES
Workers Theatre, Orchestra, Children’s Camp, Camera League Among Projects Planned
NEW YORK. The Workers International Relief, Local New York, announces the removal of its offices to 131 West 28th Street, New York, first floor, Telephone Lackawanna 0640.
The New York Local has taken larger and more convenient quarters for the purpose of developing its mass cultural activities in the working class movement.
The Workers Laboratory Theatre of the W.I.R. is having its organization meeting at the new headquarters on Wednesday, November 19, 8:30 P.M. An experimental theatre is being built in these quarters to accommodate the theatre activities, with an adequate stage, and a seating capacity of about 200 people. Working class plays will be written and acted by the worker-members of this proletarian theatre. Mass plays pageants will be worked out for the movement, and blue-blouse squads of actors will be organized to give short plays and sketches at workers’ meetings and affairs. Lectures and classes will be held in connection with the theatre.
Workers Camera League
The Workers Camera League of the W.I.R. has been organized and had its first international exhibition and dance on Saturday, Nov. 15th, at Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th St. Workers’ Camera Leagues in Germany and U.S.S.R. have sent pictures for this exhibition, and there was a large and interesting exhibit of pictures taken in the U.S.A. The Workers’ Camera League of the W.I.R. will give a weekly showing of motion pictures in the theatre of the New York Local every week. All workers who are interested in portraying the lives of the workers in America through pictures which will be distributed to the labor press, and developed into motion pictures are asked to join.
The Cultural Activities Department, through its Music Council, is organizing a symphony and mandolin orchestra, mass singing and speaking choruses in English, and music and dancing classes for workers and their children.
Children’s Camp.
The W.I.R. has a Children’s Scout Section that is actively engaged in organizing clubs for workers’ children under competent working class leadership, for activities of interest to children. Arts and crafts, mandolin orchestras, fife, drum and bugle corps, kitchen orchestras, sport, signalling, study circles, theatre groups, radio, photography, military drill, scouting and other clubs are already started.
All workers’ children are invited to join.
The Workers International Relief carries on tirelessly its most important function of organizing the masses for solidarity and relief in all strike struggles, and for the purpose of organizing ideological and material support for the working class in all of its class battles. All workers are urged to join the Workers International Relief, Local New York, and to participate actively in building strong and permanent branches of this organization in the New York district, to carry on relief work, and proletarian cultural activities.
Calling City Conference.
Local New York is now calling a city-wide conference of delegates of mass organizations, workers’ clubs and fraternal societies, to organize relief and solidarity for the German workers in their fight against the social-fascist and fascist traitors in Germany, who are pressing the working masses deeper and deeper into the misery of unemployment, wage-cuts, rationalization and police terror. Rally to the support of the German proletariat in its death struggle against fascist terror. Send delegates to the city-wide conference of the Workers International Relief, Local New York, on December 7, 8 p.m., at the New York Labor Temple, 243 East 84th St., New York. Send contributions immediately to the local office, Workers International Relief, 131 West 28th St., New York.
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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