The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-13
And We Will Do More Next Year.


! What has the DAILY WORKER done in the
year of its existence to justify the support of the
working class? To answer this question would re-
quire almost republication of each issue. Even to
give an abbreviated index Of the subjects would
cover all the pages of this special edition. I'm
fortunately, our Daily cannot afford the great
clerical expense of making an index, and in both
the editorial and business departments, unknown
to those who are out of touch with the Dailys in
ternal affairs, the comrades who get out your
DAILY WORKER work shorthanded, long hours
and under great handicaps.
Hardly had the DAILY WORKER been born,
when it had the sad task of announcing the death
of Comrade Lenin, on January II, and calling for
the memorial meetings held from coast to coast
In vast throngs the workers responded, as we hope
they respond this year to commemorate the life
and work Of the great strategist of world revolu-
ton. tezl
On January %, the U. M. w. of A. convention
opened at Indianapolis and the DAILY WORKER
stepped at once into the arena of gigantic strug
gle between the left wing of the labor movement
led by the Trade Union Educational League and
the class colaboratonist labor takers of the union
bureaucracy. Nova Scotia, Howat and the three
year agreement issues The DAILY
WORKERS. baptism Of fire in the Miners Union
was but start of it's continuous struggle for the
revolutionary uniOnsm of the T. u. e. L. as the
American section of the Red International of Labor
Unions.
Space forbids detail and we mention only few
of the major struggles and campaigns in which
the DAILY WORKER fought in the forefront of
Americas workers: The united front struggle for
the protection of foreignborn workers. the relief
campaign for the starving workers of Germany
the fight against the Ruhr occupation; the fight
against Kaufman's sluggers in the Furriers
Union; the @. p. p A. conference at st. Louis in
February and the series of conferences during
March in Minnesota; the savage battle between the
strikers Of the l. L. G. w. and the bosses. police
and injunction judges in Chicago and the persecu-
ton and explosions of that unions best workers
by the Sigman gang
Sigman and his wreckers were pilloried by the
DAILY WORKER in the Nav convention at
Boston after the Daily had celebrated Nav Dav.
Then came the Teapot Dome exposures the martial
law and khan murders of miners in Williamson
county, the continual exposure of fascism in Italy
md America; the continual struggle for workers
prison for labor. Jacob Dolla, the West Vir-
rinia miners Mooney, the l. w. w. Centralia and
alifornia victims and the Michigan defendants
ave shared our space
The DAILY WORKER followed the line of the
Communist International, generally and in par
hcular matters. The Daily has given great space
to international affairs the fight on the Dawes
plan; every struggle of our comrades overseas the
wonderful progress of Soviet Russia in it's internal
and external phases; the rise and fall of Mac
Donald's fake "labor" government; the colonial
struggles for liberation of oppressed natonalites
and races; China, the arena of imperialist conflict
and, among many important events, the
recent beginning of a Pan-American revolutionary
labor movement, and the campaign for world unity
of all labor unions of the Profntern.
The DAILY WORKER has fought for the rank
and file; against the Toledo explosions of machin
lists, and the fine battle of that unions left wing
in the Detroit convention; the A. c. W. convention
at Philadelphia in May and the unmasking of the
Hillman treachery, the battle with Levin and his
sluggers in the Chicago elections; the Pullman.
Hegewisch and Paterson strikes; the conflicts in
Boston and elsewhere; and the campaign against
unemployment, wage cuts, longer hours and the
open shop.
The DAILY WORKER fought the battles of
the revolutionists in the l. W. W. against splitters
md reformsts, likewise in the A. F. of L. the Daily
vas on the job at the Ell Paso convention lust as
u the /. w. w. convention, reporting events and
iitorially leading the struggle. In the A. f. of
:. and all subordinate unions the Daily has fought
Or wiping out the color line, and full equality of
negroes and Orientals with White workers in all
relations of life
Perhaps the leading work of the year has been
he first Communist campaign in the United States
the capitalist elections. The young party had
is first round with parliamentary democracy"
nd the Daily was the most powerful instrument