The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-13
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

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two months under the care Of Dr, Nor
man Thomas was raised in order to
start The DAILY WORKER. A small
sum indeed. But 1t had a loyal army
behind it and the field all to itself.
The socialist dailies were disappear
ing. They had decided that the class
struggle was old stuff an that class
collaboration was the up-tO-date sub
stitute. The word flight" was to be
eliminated from the vocabulary of
the workingclass. mot if l can help
It," said The DAILY WORK-R, as it
buckled on it's armour on the evening
of January IL, 1923. On the following
day it was on the streets, the most
belligerent little battler the American
working class movement ever saw.
And if it has said kind word for the
capitalist or any of its lackeys ever
since, even it's worst enemies have
failed to notice it.
MO sooner had The DAILY WORK
NER come upon the scene than it
proceeded to interfere in every strike
or struggle of any kind in which the
workers were involved. The work
ers met it with open arms and the
capitalists anu the labor takers with |
clenched fists. But it gave as many |
blows as it received and is today in !
better condition than ever before. In
fact, it lives on trouble.
1T fought for the garment strikers
| here in Chicago and everywhere
else there was an industrial struggle.
1t never waited for moment to find
out whether strike was Justified"
Never has any such doubts. Strikes
mean fights against the bosses and
that should be the favorite outdoor
sport of the workers. 1t covered the
Indianapolis convention of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America and sew
eral other big labor meetings. But,
perhaps the biggest job of the year
was the way it handled the election
campaign, when the Communist ban
ner was raised for the first time in a
national election with William 2. Eos
ter the great strike leader as our
standard bearer.
THE future of The DAILY WORK
| Err is assured We say this not
because we are intoxicated with Joy
over our first anniversary, but because
our daily has a loyal army of support
ers. 1t is upon this army, the mem
bers of the Workers (Communist)
Party that the daily relies.
THE DAILY WORKER is fighting
| the battles of labor. 1t is with
them every day, from the mine fields
of Pennsylvania, to the wooden mills
Of Massachusetts; from the transport
workers in vancouver C tne garment
workers in Chicago or New York. 1t
knows no lines Of division between
workers. 1t stands for their united
action on the industrial field and it
continues to rally the most class con-
scious of them on the political field
under the banner of the Workers
(Communist) Party.
THE first Communist daily in the
| English language has passed thru
its first year creditably. We have
never yet heard a capitalist praise it.
The labor takers are not enthusiastic
over it. But the workers that we have
been able to reach-even those of
them who cannot see eye to eye with
us-know instinctively that it is their
friend. AS the class struggle grows in
intensity, and the American workers
will be compelled more and more to
come into conflict with their masters;
as the final struggle for the conquest
of power by the workers draws near
er, the DAILY WORKER the trumpet
of Communism will become increas-
ingly more necessary to the workers
to give them leadership and guidance