The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
Social Affairs
Resolutions
N. Y. CONFERENCE
PLANS AID TO
DAILY WORKER
Build Up Circulation of
Press, Urge Speakers

FreSS, urge speakers
NEW YORK, Feb. ia conference
of functionaries numbering IT'S from
shop nuclei street nuclei, and sub-sec-
tons and DAILY WORKER Builders
Clubs was held here to discuss the
content and methods of distribution
Of The DAILY WORKER.
This was the first conference of this
kind ever held in the district. In the
past it was unusual for most of the
party members to believe that The
DAILY WORKER and, the Communist
press in general was tie concern of
the literature agents only and that
they had done their duty when they
had selected their literature or DAILY
WORKER agent. AtSthis conference
there were present the organizers of
shop and street nuclei and the mem
bers of the subsection executives.
The conference was opened by ].
o. Bentall who is at the present time
assisting Katterfeld in the work of
building up the circulation OF the daily
in the Eastern cities. Bentall spoke
on the Lenin Drive of The DAILY
WORKER.
Build Up the Communist Press.
Stachel, organization secretary of
the district, spoke at length on the
Communist press, contrasting the in
fluence of the Communist parties in
the different countries as shown by
the support they are receiving in the
trade unions and at parliamentary
elections, with the circulation of the
Communist press. He showed that in
the majority of cases We failed to
get all our sympathizers to read our
press. He stated that the party mem
bers must remember the words of
Lenin; "The press is not only a col
lective agitator, a collective propa-
gandist, but collective organizer as
we'll" Every effort must be made to
build up the power of the press for
this means the building up of the influ-
ence of the party.
Stresses Workers Correspondent
Comrade Stachel stressed the i'm
portance of building up the worker
correspondents, to include non-party
workers who must be induced to write
in our papers and send us even their
grievances against our press and
against our party. The workers in the
shops and factories must learn to
know that The DAILY sW0RKER Is
their paper Thru the Worker Core
spondents we can hasten the Bolshe-
vizatiOn of our press. Without them,
the press cannot be bolshevized In
every nucleus there must be a worker
correspondent. We must build up
groups of worker correspondents in
every shop to include non-party work
ers. Stachel also spoke on the meth
DDS of distribution of the press and
how to sell literature in the shops.
Every Party Member Must Build
the Daily Worker.
Katterfeld spoke of the progress
made in building up the circulation. of
the daily in New York City, and pre-
dicted that New York would soon have
DAILY WORKER edition printed in
New York, provided we increase our
circulation sufficiently He spoke of
the failure of all the party members
to do their share towards the build
ing of The DAILY WORKER. Katter-
field than made suggestions to the
members on how to increase their eff
ficiency in the distribution of the daily
and to get new readers for our paper.
Katterfeld then referred to the Spec
aI Lenin Drive in New York where
we are offering non-party workers a
months subscription for 80 cent and
urged the comrades to go over the top
in the New York quota of 1000.
AS a result Of the conference many
of the comrades are beginning to un-
lerstand that the building up of The
DAILY WORKER is the concern not
only of the literature agent but of
every member of our party.