The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-10

| L NLftIb due IulIOI LIS lGL-
- ter is called forth by the recent
very successful contest for sub
scribers for The DAILY WORKER,
together with your articles on that
subject. think l see great possibi-
lities in carrier boy delivery, especial
ly in Chicago where excessive post
age charges are practically prohib.
Itive. AS you perhaps know, I am
being furnished without charge all the
papers can sell in the process of
developing routes. At present have
AZ regular serves" l am also placing
IL "Dailies" on six stands in this
territory besides selling about twenty
copies daily in the process of can
vassing new territory. 1 collect 20
cents the full news stand price every
Saturday. For carrying 1 am paying
one cent a copy. l am able to live
and pay all expenses out of the in
come. Twenty-seven other SERVES"
/ started and quit. Each Saturdays
comes the acid test as to whether the
paper is being read and will therefore
be continued.
To do this work I find the skill of
the salesman and the patience of the
readers must be combined. make
running list of all houses visited leav-
ing plenty of space for memorandum.
Each house, fiat or apartment number
Is put down, whether the door bell is
answered or not. Whoever comes to
! fha door ic intaPviawnd
1. The first thing (if it appears
necessary is to ask permission for
the interview. ask the man or men
and if they are wage earners. If ]
cannot get the man himself talk to
whoever l can, wife, daughter, son,
visitor, union, non-union, pioneer,
youth-they are all prospective mem
bers of our organizations, even bust
ness and professional people, in our
defense, aid and free speech depart
ments.
2. bring the matter right down
DAILY WORKER. (a) Published by
the workers themselves; (b) All big
dailies are millionaire concerns and
of course go against us in our strug
giles; (c) Labor leaders will better
serve the real workers thru the influ-
ence of real rank and file papers;
I'D 1t must be daily, not weekly or
monthly; (e) Printed by a united
front of all rank and file or left wing,
militant organizations. (b) Gets more
i money, less hours, for every worker
every week; (g) Leads the struggle
in every strike; CHI Gives the histor-
ical back ground, day by day news,
technique or method, final result, les
sons, of every strike. (The ordinary
daily falsif1es or omits all these); III
Has its own reports from every city
in the world by cable, in common
with its brother papers in all lands
in all languages. To sum up: it is
unthinkable that any worker will
allow his family himself, and the
workers he meets to be without this
paper, when once he fully under
stands what it is.
TT is necessary, in most cases, when
once a worker subscribes to talk
and explain to him few times. For
this the Saturday collection gives an
opportunity. l am sure that most of
those have thus reached, since July
5, when l started this work, are
assured to us already as steady pa
irons, future party members, etc. OF
course this work must be followed up,
which the party here already is pre-
pairing to do.
1t seems that 20 cents will make
the routes self-sustaning. The carrier
to have six cents, The DAILY WORK
Err agent who collects, delivers
bundles, and supervises the routes
of a district, four cents and The
DAILY WORKER ten cents of each
twenty cents. The agent can canvass
new routes, to the limit of his cap
acity thus keeping him fully occupied,
retaining the full amount. | go after
the bundle at 3 a. m, finishing my
deliveries by 6. or sometimes by 5.
then finish my sleep and canvass until
or $3.50 p. m. 1t would seem to be
possible to interest many comrades in
this and thus to cover all working
class districts. II our boys (they may
be organized as Pioneers) are to do
the delivering the routes, perhaps,
should be reduced in size so that they
can be covered within a half hour.
This would take many boys, IL much
territory is covered. but the more the
better; such task is necessary to
develop the boys. as we'll as their ED
ers. Each small route can become
The pride of the boy and those to
whom he serves the paper. Perhaps
someone within or near each route
AN be found to become the canvasser
who will develop the route to as near
! 100 per cent of the residents as pos
sible We can establish classes to
train anvassers-persons who ac-
quire the power to approach others
and by interview convince them OF
the value of a thing and supply them