The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
May Day Greetings
BY MATT TENHuNEN.

workers Of America only had slight
comprehension of the fact that we
need, above all, our own daily news
paper as weapon in our struggle.
That thought changed into activity,
altho many among us said that it
could not be done.
About four months ago it was de-
cided that the publication of the
DAILY WORKER would be COM
menced on January 10, but still there
were many who doubted whether it
could be done.
Three months ago the DAILY
WORKER commenced to appear, but,
as usual for workers papers, in a
rented building, with rented machin-
cry and under temporary agreements.
Therefore a heavy burden of rent, in
terest and profits to carry. And while
the element nearest the DAILY
WORKER sweated with plans to
purchase building, machinery and
fixtures. made drawings and speciti-
cations for a home and press of its
own for the DAILY WORKER, there
still were many among us who
thought it could not be done.
Now the DAILY WORKER has
been established, it has its own up
to-date building and printing machin-
cry, all paid for. Are there still COM
rades who can say that It cannot be
done?
know that the DAILY WORKER
has the best, the most up-to-date and
modern building, printing machinery
and fixtures that any one could have
secured for the funds that were avail
able for the purpose. l know that
with the aid of this printing outfit the
DAILY WORKER and other party
publications can be issued most eco
nomically; but the success of the
DAILY WORKER is not benefited
alone by its own home and printing
plant. The DAILY WORKER was
not established for the purpose alone
of getting it a new home and press.
It was established to guide and de-
veIop the class struggle of the work
ers. The principal progress of the
DAILY WORKER will be shown by
the wide extent of its subscriptions!
Therefore all friends of the DAILY
WORKER must obtain subscribers
for it!
When we have secured building,
presses and fixtures, when we are
sacrificing a great amount of the la
Dor and funds of our party in giving
out a paper for $4,000 subscribers,
then it can be easily realized that
with the same expense we can have
the educational influence of our pa
per reach $4,000, 10000, why not hun
dreds of thousands of workers? In
deed, why not?
Many will, of course, again say that
it cannot be done
But it can be done if the member
ship of our party and the friends of
the DAILY WORKER spend half
of the time in circulating the paper
that they have spent in the past in
carrying out all kinds of minor af-
fairs, which the paper will carry out
in the future. And if the member
ship of the party will understand the
significance of it's own paper and how
the work can be accomplished thru it,
AS matter of fact not much, as
yet, has been done toward circulating
the DAILY WORKER. 1t has, in re-
atty, obtained the circulation it has
itself without any special effort or
organized work. 1t is the party's turn
to work now. Every member of the
party must be something now. Espe-
ciaIly in Chicago, toward which every
one looks as if it were Mecca, how
much has each one done for the cir
culation of the paper?
Away with incapabiIityl Principal
issues to the 'front.' The circulation
Of the DAILY WORKER is one of
theml The circulation Of the DAILY
WORKER must be increased, first to
$4,000, then to $4,000, and then al
ways upward. Fifty thousand sub
scribers for the DAILY WORKER in
Chicago is not much. When we have
that, then workers. dailies must be
established, too, in New York, cIeve-
land, Detroit, and the West. Not only
one DAILY WORKER in Chicago,
with $4,000 or 100000 subscribers, but
DAILY WORKER Of its own for
every large industrial center, with
tens Of thousands, nay, hundreds OF
thousands OF readersl This alone
will lead us to victory! And all Of
this Is possible within a few years
with good, intelligent, earnest effortl
But II requires the work Of all Of us.
AS beginning let each one of us Sc.
cure few new subscribers for the
DAILY WoRKERl
How MANY Of vour ahon-n1atee Rad