The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-22
FEAR DAILY BOTH
PROTESTANT and
CATHOLIC PL
Subscribers Wives Full
Of Strange Fancies


To The DAILY WORKER: Your
paper is the best labor paper in the
English language. II beats every
thing in the line of paper that
I have seen yet. For years / was
a constant reader of the New York
Call and 1 thought nothing could
surpass it, but you birds beat it
thousand ways.
In the first place The DAILY
WORKER carries a different line Of
goods to what the Call used to ped
die. 1t is only after one has read
The DAILY WORKER few times
that one begins to realize the vast
difference. What I like about your
paper most of all is its straight.
forwardness.
Straight from the Shoulder.
You never beat around the bush;
you strike straight from the shout
der every time. I must admit that
/ was prejudiced against the Com
munists, and very much 50, before
4 became a reader az The DAILY
WORKER. /, with thousands OF
others, blamed you people for split
ting the old Socialist Party, and
branded you fellows as enemies of
the movement. Now the whole thing
is very clear to me and the only
thing l am sorry for is, that it was
not split sooner. But how could it
be, when the yellow traitors who
controlled the Socialist Party and
lied and misled the rank and file,
had followers ike me who fell for
their bunk?
However, / will do my best to
make up FOR lost time. / am do
ing my best to get subscribers for
your paper. l work three nights
calling on friends who are members
or former members of the Socialist
Party to get them to subscribe to
The DAILY WORKER. 1 know
that these people are in the same
boat that l was before / became a
reader, that is, that they religiously
hang on 20 the Socialist Party like
Catholic sticks to the church, be-
cause they don't know any better.
"Catholic Plot"
Last night I called on a man who
has voted the Socialist ticket for
years. / approached him for a
"sub" for The DAILY WORKER.
He refused. His wife was present
and said nothing. When I got up
to leave he came TO the door with
me and said, II will see you on
Saturday when I get paid and give
years subscription. But / did not
want to say anything in front of
my wife. She is staunch Lutheran
and believes that Socialism and
Communist ere plots on the part Of
the Catholic church to break up and
destroy the Lutheran church."
Protestant Plot.
Tonight 7 called on another sup
porter of the Socialist Party. When
/ asked him to subscribe he. too, re-
fused in front of his wife. But
when I was leaving he came out on
the street with me and gave me a
six months sub. He explained "that
he did not want to let his wife know
that he was subscribing for a radical
paper because she believed that rad
icalism was a Protestant plot to
break up the Catholic church." On
my way home I laughed till I was
sick. Here were two supporters of
the Socialist Party who were not
able to enlighten their own wives.
I said to myself, the Workers Party
for me from now on.
I viii do my best to get your pa
per all the support I can. / have
not been here very long nor do
intend to stay, but wherever I am
will boost The DAILY WORKER.
There should be a paper like it IN
every town in the country.--C. P.