With no money, no organization and only a handful of inexperienced volunteers, the One Million Club gathered 720 members on the first day of its existence as a rallying point for the offensive against high prices and profiteering, according to Charles Baumgarten of 318 East Sixty-ninth Street, who started it.
Mr. Baumgarten said publication of his plan to get a million recruits to pledge themselves to a campaign of self-denial, thrift and active warfare against '"gough ers" brought a most gratifying response, particularly in the direction of volunteer workers. Dozens offered to give their spare time to the cause, he said, and it appeared that quite a corps of paid workers would be about the streets spreading the club's eco nomy pledges These pledges have been distributed by three volunteers at Brooklyn Bridge and other foci of travel and the workers report that men and wonien seemed eager to get them.
Because the club has no dues and no organization or administration funds, Mr. Baumgarten begged that those who want to help along should clip from their newspapers the heading of the pledge, paste it on a sheet of blank white paper ruled for names and addresses and mail it to headquarters as soon as it is filled. Additional pledges, he pointed out, easily could be made by typewriting or writing the heading on more blank sheets. The pledge follow
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.