The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17

~ workers who sympathize with our
program, at least in general way,
are now answering the question: shall
we have a daily paper that will fear
lessly express our point of view and
energetically defend our interests?
We have no doubt that all of these
workers will answer this question en-
phatically in the affirmative. We do
not doubt that every class conscious
worker can be made to feel and real
ize the need of having daily spokes-
man for the American working class.
But what we must strive to do is
to make the workers not merely grasp
the abstract need for the existence Of
a newspaper like the DAILY WORK
Err, We must spare no effort to con-
duty to insure the practical continu-
Gus existence of the DAILY WORK
Err.
THE best way to approach the work
= ers in an appeal of this sort is to
resort to practical examples of in
stances where the bourgeois press at
lacks and tries to undermine workers
movements and when the DAILY
WORE Err defends and tries to
strenthen these same movements of
the working class. Concrete examples
which will be most easily grasped by
the workers should be chosen by us,
if we wish to get the greatest results.
Let us take, for example, the pres
ent anthracite strike. We can put it
very simply and with Straightforward
ness to the workers. Show the work
ers how the capitalist press is lining
up with the coal bosses, with the
operators on every issue in the strike.
Show the workers copies of bour-
geois papers in which the striking
miners and their demands are at
tackled. At the same time GIVE
AWAY copy or two of the DAILY
WORKER in which the anthracite
miners are defended, in which their
demands are Endorsed.
Then, we may take up the union
breaking campaign Of certain reaction
airy labor leaders. Let us take the re-
Ladies' Garment Workers Union. We
can show that the only paper printed
in the English language which con-
sistently and sincerely fought against
the vicious expulsion policy and
stood up for a united labor organiza-
ton, for solid union. was the
DAILY WORKER.
TINE present situation in Panama
4 where the American soldiery is
serving in the role of strikebreakers
affords another practical, living ap-
proach to workers for getting some
support for the daily. 1t certainly af-
fords interesting and clinching argu-
ment to compare the columns of the
DAILY WORKER with the columns of
every capitalist sheet in the country
in the handling Of this critical situa-
ton. In every so-called big paper,
that is in every paper of the bosses,
the poor tenants of Panama are being
denounced as rioters and the soldiers
bayoneting the defenseless working
men are hailed as heroes. Only in
the DAILY WORKER will there be
found plea in behalf Of the working
men striking to reduce the rent bills
for their miserable novels.
A rent appeal in reference to Pan
anna workers is not distant from the
rent issue which is keenly felt by
great masses of the American prole-
tariat. The landlords in both in
stances are largely members Of the
same American capitalist class.
There is much sympathy for the
''under-dog" in the ranks of the
American proletariat which we can
exploit most constructively for the
working class and it's institutions like
the DAILY WORKER.
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