The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-13
By c. smoIiansky.

BICbS, IllG DOlSDGNlAdllOA VI lAAS
Party, raises the simultaneous prob
lem of the Bolshevization of Commu-
mist propaganda and agitation. For
this last the question of the Party
press plays a part of pre-eminent i'm
portance, especially in those countries
in which the sections of the c. I. are
mass parties, and have at their dis
posal a considerable number of daily
and weekly papers.
What does Bolshevization really
mean? 1t means the transformation
of our press into a real mass press
of the workers. The Communist
newspaper must be a workers news
paper, not merely newspaper for
workers. 1t must elucidate every
aspect Of class warfare and working
class life, from the factory to parlia-
ment. The Communist newspaper
must form a connecting link between
the party organizations and the broad
masses of the workers. The Com
munist newspaper must be such that
the non-party workman does not re-
gard it merely as a remote organ
representing a political party, but as
his own labor newspapers, compre-
hensible to him, mirroring his hopes,
his interests, his daily life, and his
struggles.
THUS the whole character of the
4 Communist newspaper must be
changed. Many comrades, accustom-
ed to the traditional type of bourgeois
newspaper, and unable to break abb
ruptly with this conservative tradi
ton, are alarmed at what appears to
them to be weakness" of our press
(Which is not equal to the firmly
established bourgeois press, aided by
a large number of intellectual literary
forces) but this so-called weakness
is in reality a symptom that our press
is on the right road to proletarisa-
tion, that its contact with the mass
es is becoming closer, and that it is
ceasing TO follow in the ruts of the
social democratic press, which differs
from the bourgeois press solely by a
political nuance. Emancipation from
this tradition is the first step towards
the Bolshevization of the press.
The real purport of the extensive
Worker Correspondent movement now
being called into life is to bring wide
masses of the workers into the ranks
of the Party, and to make these into
conscious and active Party members.
1t is obvious that the Communist
press will accomplish this task eff
GENTLY in proportion to its closer con-
tact with the masses, with the works
and factories.
CINCE the v Congress, our press
~ has been able to report consider
able success in this direction in a
number OF countries and it is a suit
able moment to make a survey Of
these first attempts, to praise the best
efforts, to encourage the backward.
The convening of an International
Press Conference appears to us to be
the most suitable form of carrying out
this survey. But from the theological
and organisatory standpoint the most
suitable date for an extensive cam
paign of this nature appears to us
to be May 5-the anniversary Of the
founding OF the Bolsheyist newspaper
"Pravda" in 1912. This campaign
could be made to form the immediate
continuation Of the campaign begin
ming OF May 1, the opportunity being
thus given for carrying out mass agi-
tation on an extensive scale in the
five days till May 5.
This press conference may be made
the opportunity Gas our Russian COM
rades made it) of more firmly es-
tablishing the connection between the
Communist Party and the laboring
masses by means of the Communist
newspaper, and of awakening active
interest for the Communist newspaper