The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-17
An Army of Constructive
Builders Is in the Field
for the Daily Worker
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

1.-THE BIG PARADE" is very successful moving picture of
are thrilled by it. Breathessy they watch the rapidly chang
ing panorama Millions of soldiers marching Ever forward!
where!
Great care been taken develop the character
of the titanic struggle The zero hour arrives The Amer-
cans against the Germans They advance in for
nation hills and valleys, thru fields and streams
thru deserted villages and the barren countysdes They
advance soldiers five feet apart front miles WIDE
each five behind another and another and another
coming of the in endless streams if all male hu-
in the world had been called to participate in the human
slaughter The enemy shells rain out of the sky Machine
guns rattle from hidden nests Enemy shapshooers hid
den everywhere, busy killing, killing, killing Many of
the advancing soldiers fall dead wounded But the mass
in the rear to Advances" must be obeyed Bood Agony!
shreks Of the dying Death! Destruction It is war! The
of the mperast masters All that happened on the
fields of France nearly nine year ago.
In this April 1926 nine years after the United States
entered the murder another army has received
it's marching orders 1t has gone over the top 1t marches
here at home in America 7 is the army ct sv6sG6eTs
There yet enough of them to march five feet
apart from the Canadian border to the Mexican guilt nor
five from heel to from the Atlantic to the Pacific
But still they are numerous
They work in open formation. In the textile mills and
the shoe factories of New England in the coal fields and on
the railroads that span the contnent in the metal mines
and the steel ms in the many industries that draw millions
into great population everywhere that labor tolls
they are active small numbers be But they
the advance guard regiments.
The DAILY WORKER has been putting down barrage
against the enemy years. During that time
millions of copies of "Our DaiIyT'-the daily of militant
aborhas searched out the weak spots in the employers
strength 1t has made openings 1t has prepared the way
for the present onslaught.
Thousands of loyal workers have pushed forward
hating the vanguard army. They have rallied in sup
port Of our DAILY WORKER agents in hundreds cities
Hundreds of worker correspondents shapshooters in the
class war have brought me DALI inese pass
Workers (communs Party everywhere have helped build
the combat machinery of the struggle.
ic Foanu f0F Tho Gran Offn m
for the winning of 10000 subscribers perhaps even more
thousands, for The DAILY WORKER.
The advance of The DAILY WORKER army does not
destruction and death attend its every forward STEP In
of soldiers everywhere falling in agony and DEATH
every direction from the mines, mills factories
and fields. Instead of depleted ranks-growing ranks. In
stead of destruction there construction Instead of DEATH
LIFE.
Greek mythology tells of the hero, Theseus, who killed
his dragon extracted its teeth planted them the rich soil
with the result that soldiers full armed sprang to life ready
for battle against the enemies of Greece
Capitalism is the dragon against which labor makes
Capitalism spreads its black pail of ignorance thru its press
pulpit and controlled education in the schools.
These teeth only be extracted and buried thru the
building of powerful revolutionary press enghtening the
o. the s nat on 0f ta e @ O5
wherefore of capitaisms nquties but point the way to
their abolition Thus the working class army of emancpa
ton grows
Yesterday the beginning Of this nationwide often;
labor.
Today the march forward calls to American abors mill
tant egions building the left wing of the organized trade
union movement mobilize for this effort It calls to the
vast numbers Of the great industries to estab
Ish The DAILY WORKER their fighting spokesman
where they toll
The drive continues until July q. That day should mark
the contamination of triumph for the American work.
ing class The proportions of that triumph depend the
energy the the devotion and loyalty manifested
in the passing hours every of which fraught with tre
mendous possibilities. ~
Forward for The DAILY WORKER. Ten thousand new
readers by July q! It means nghte left wing Of labor
1t powerful Workers (Communist) Party
It brings the day of Proetaran Power hurres
the victory of the American social revolution.