The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
COwderry,s Letter Was the Best asssssf-~
Part of Yesterdays Issue of The
DAILY WORKER! Read 1t Again!

| The DAILY WORKER is the kind of
paper they ought to read, that it is
of great value to them in their daily
struggles. His method succeeded.
He points out:
"Once they read it successfully Q
few times we have them"
There is the half-hearted builder,
however, who likes to run away from
his job. When every subscriber won
will not renew Immediately and vol.
UNFAIRLY, this type of builder decides
that his Daily must be entirely to
blame. He finds no fault in himself.
He reports with long drawn face to
his nucleus, casting gloom where
ever he goes.
1t is an historic event in most
nuclei when special drive is made
for subs" Usually short term sub
scriptions are secured. The party
members, thereupon, in great part,
expect the subscribers thus gained
to renew without additional effort on
their part. AS a matter of fact, as
Cowdery's experience shows, their
work has only begun. And there is
no end to it, not even with the ar
rival Of the social revolution, as
shown by the pride that our Russian
comrades take even now, nearly nine
years after the Bolshevik victory, in
increasing the number of readers Of
the dailies published under the prol.
etarian dictatorship. It is a matter
of great pride to Communists the
world over that the number of
readers of Communist dailies in the
Soviet Union at the present time far
surpasses the number OF capitalist
newspaper readers that existed un,
der the deposed czarism.
One of the first methods used by
the comrades in New York City to
increase the circulation Of The
DAILY WORKER was to give
short term subscription with an ad-
mission to great demonstration in
Madison Square Garden. Large num-
bers Of subs" were secured in this
way. But again the complaint was
made that they did not renew. am
sure that Comrade Cowdery could
have told them why.
Since then very good results have
been secured in New York City thru
the perfection Of The DAILY
WORKER machinery under the
direction Of our New York agent,
Comrade L. E. Katterfeld, whose un-
firing energy in developing The New
: York DAILY WORKER Builders
Club is already well known to our
readers. The builders in New York
as everywhere else, that is, those
who are really active, can appreciate
what Cowdery means when he says:
Il can appreciate the advantage
of getting right down to where peo-
pie live and talk with them about
their struggle and the relation to
them of a good daily paper which
The DAILY WORKER has become"
In closing, it is well to repeat the
word picture that Cowdery used in
closing his letter. He has started
Johnnie" Tuhy, Pioneer, carrying
route in Chicago. In the territory
that our Pioneer is now covering,
"Johnnie's' father was the original
and only subscriber. There are now
90 subscribers for The DAILY
WORKER in this territory. Cow
derry writes:
Now there are % getting the pa
per in the early morning to be. taken
by workers to their shops and
among their brother workers, thus
in a measure shutting out the need
or inclination to grab a capitalist
sheet"
Cowdery's letter helps point the
road to the building of The DAILY
WORKER into a mass organ of the
American class struggle. All who
are anxious to develop their daily"
to become that power should read
Cowdery's letter again, have it read
in their party nucleus and then
proceed to take measures to follow
along the road that it maps out.