The daily worker., 1924-12-27

! planned by the former G. %. c., we
have purchased a building to house
The DAILY WORKER and the nation
al Office of the party as well, and
have established modern and COM
plete printing plant to take care Of
all the party's printing. The man.
lagement of the mechanical depart
ment of this plant as well as the Of
flee end has been economical and eff
cient in the extreme, to the end that
the deficit Of The DAILY WORKER
for 1924. is much lower than we had
dared to hope (only $20,OOO).
But it was not this phase Of the
work which brought the party its
greatest gains. Nor have the educa-
tion and propaganda values Of The
DAILY WORKER been its chief ad-
vantages. 1t has been in the field of
organization that The DAILY WORK
Err has brought us the greatest bene-
fits. For due to the planful organiza-
tionaI methods used in The DAILY
of agents, we have developed a rich
field for making new mass contacts.
Instead haphazard attempt at build
ing circulation, an organized army Of
subscription agents is being develop
ed who are not simply sub-hustlers.
but actually rapidly developing, cap
able organizers for the party. The
formalizing of this organization into
The DAILY WORKER Builders is an
other step in advance which is already
yielding further results.
Centralizing the Party Press.
The decentralized state of our par
ty press which the G. e. c. inherited
from its preceding administration was
an outrage and nuisance. The
Weekly Worker was printed in one
place and edited and managed in an
other. The Liberator, Labor Herald,
and Soviet Russia Pictorial all had
separate editorial stats and admins
trations. The Party Literature De-
partment had another. AS long ago as
last January the c. e. G.. decided to
eliminate this waste and inefEiciency.
The first step was the amalgama-
ton of the three monthly magazines
into The Workers Monthly. Thus
the party has one monthly official or
gan instead of three and instead of
three editors and two assistants, there
IS only one editor. The DAILY
WORKER has taken charge of the
management of The Workers Month
ly and with the addition of one Office
girl to it's staff, it does the work for
merly done by the three business
administrations which employed from
four to five persons. The resultant
saving to our party in wages alone
amounts to over $4,000 a year.
But the monetary saving is not
he only nor by any. means the great
est achievement. The centralizing of
he production of our monthly with
The DAILY WORKER makes it pos
iible to produce both a better daily
and a better monthly. The centraliz-
ing of the distribution makes it easier
to increase the circulation of both
The DAILY WORKER and The Work
ers' Monthly.
The Z. r. G. has now decided to
centralize in a similar manner the
party's Literature Department, so that
beginning the first of the year, The
DAILY WORKER will be charged
with the administration and distri-
button Of this important arm of our
party. This will not only make new
savings for the party, but also be-
cause of centralizing Of the selling
machinery the party will for the first
time begin really to permeate the
working class with Communist books
and pamphlets.
Shortcomings to be Overcome.
We should not close our eyes to a
number of shortcomings in our activ-
tiles. Some of our language sections
are not as yet sufficiently close to
the party organization. Communist
work among women employed in In
dustry, among the Negro masses. and