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

$4,000 roubles were collected for the
reserve funds of the Pravda. The
workers newspaper must make it its
endeavor to widen the Shears" that
is, the ratio between the number of
readers and the number of registered
party members. And finally, the cam
paign must eliminate in the propa-
ganda for mass participation by the
workers in the immediate work of the
newspaper itself, that is, in the organ
ization of mass movement Of work
er correspondents.
But the essential factor of BoIshe-
vization is differentiation. The cam
paign has not to, be carried out in all
countries alike, nor conducted with
threadbare slogans and on threadbare
lines. In my opinion the following
lines of action might be laid down for
the most important countries:
LNNGLAND. Here the party has not
~ had one single daily paper up to
now. The revolutionary minority
movement has however attained such
an extent = to say nothing of the
broad masses backing up the "left
wing" - that there is sufficient foun-
dation upon which to build up a daily
labor newspaper for the masses. For
England the question to be discussed
at the Communist press conference is
the founding of daily Communist
newspaper. The fact that the present
weekly paper the Workers Weekly
the central organ of the English Com,
munist Party, disposes of an edition
of $4,000 copies, although the number
Of members belonging to the party is
only 1000 to 5000, shows that our En-
glish comrades could fulfil this task
The revolutionary minorities could at
the same time be used as a starting
point for the establishment Of contact
between the labor newspaper and the
works and factories, ahd for the for
nation of extensive cadres Of worker
correspondents. The organization Of
the worker correspondent movement
should procede propaganda for a daily
mass newspaper.
THE United States. In the United
States, on the other hand, our little
party has more than a dozen daily
newspapers, but we are confronted
with number Of other problems: 1.
These newspapers are not published
under any uniform party control, they
do not pursue uniform Communist
line, andyare at times subject to such
alterations that it is difficult to dis
tinguish them from the ordinary Men
shevist newspapers (this applies for
instance to the New Yorker volks-
zeitung.) Here the BoIshevization of
the press would thus signify in the
first place a strictly centralized con-
troll of the Communist press by the
Communist Party. 2. The chief news
paper in the English language, the
DAILY WORKER must be converted
into mass newspaper. The organi-
zation Of a worker correspondent
movement is one of the first tasks i'm
perative for this newspaper. 3. The
main weakness of the non-English
newspapers, is that they devote too
little attention to the life OF America,
and cling too much to that of the
country in whose language they are
published. This weakness must be
overcome, for it only leads to an en-
hancement Of national separation,
and to weakening of the feeling of
class solidarity of the American pro-
letariat.
ITALY. The organ of the Italian
Communist Party should be con-
verted into a mass organ. and be
brought into closer contact with the
working masses. This is the slogan of
the press conference for Italy. The
Communist daily newspaper, the Unita
accords a certain amount of space to
worker correspondents, but the letters
sent in are perfect example of how
such reports should not be drawn up.