The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-26
Workers
Press
INSTEAD of the newspapers repre-

senting different political parties
which usually exist abroad we have
IN Soviet Russia only worker and
peasant newspapers. These worker
and peasant newspapers differ from
each other. There are leading cen
trail newspapers, leading regional and
provincial newspapers, mass news
papers, peasant newspapers, national
newspapers; trade union, coopera-
tive, economic, military, Young Com
munist, Pioneer literary, sport, eve
ming newspapers, wall newspapers,
ETC., etc.
All these newspapers serve the in
terests of the workers and peasants.
There are no newspapers in the
U. S. S. R. for the bourgeoisie. Such
newspapers as the nationality papers
and wall newspapers, ETC., which
were never known before the revolu-
ton, are of especial interest. The
national newspapers are product of
the November Revolution. They are
mighty instrument in rousing the
class consciousness of the toilers OF
the minority nationalities. They help
them in creating their own national
republics federated in the Soviet
Union. On April /, 1924, there were
altogether, 1l3 such nationality news
papers; on February /, 1925, 139, and
on August /, 1925, 162. Thus we
see an uninterrupted growth in the
number of nationality newspapers in
the u. S. S. r. The circulation of
these newspapers is increasing still
faster: from 100000 copies it has in
creased to 100000 in a period Of less
than eighteen months. The wall
newspapers are another and no less
important sign of cultural develop
ment. They are a powerful tribune.
They exist in almost every factory
and every institution. They exist in
every mine. These newspapers take
up all the defects in the enterprises.
They combat the violation of laws
concerning the protection of labor.
They deal with all dark sides of the
life of the workers. They also record
all progress made in industry such
as naturalization and the struggle
against bureaucracy, etc, etc.
There is a huge army of worker
and peasant correspondents, consist
ing of about $4,000, of whom 100,-
900 are worker correspondents and
100000 peasant correspondents or
gafized around these wall news
papers. These worker and peasant
correspondents organize purposely to
produce local wall newspapers, but
they also participate in the general
public press. The national con-
crosses of worker and peasant cor
respondents writing for "Pravda,"
'Krestianskaya Gazetta" and other
newspapers are a sign of one of the
most remarkable mass movements.
Only in the Soviet Union, under the
dictatorship of the proletariat, can the
workers and peasants make such ex-
tensive and free use of the printed
word in the interest of a socialist
transformation of the country.
Thousands of journalists who work
at the bench, hundreds of thousands
of journalists who work with the
plough-all these are now writing.
L mere are dI Ilie pIeSelll tiIle III llc
u. S. S. R. such publications issued
for the worker and peasant CORE
spondents as the worker and Peas
ant Correspondent" "The Village
Correspondent" "The Railway Work.
er Correspondent" "The Path of the
Worker and Peasant Correspondent"
and many other papers and supple
ments to the national and local news
papers.
In the words of Lenin, the Com
munist Party and Soviet press is not
only collective propaganda and
agitator, but also a collective organ
izer of the toiling masses. Each OF
the 100000 copies of the 600 Soviet
newspapers (before the revolution
the total circulation of the, press die
not exceed two and half millions)
helps the workers and peasants to
select the best ways and means fo1
their promotion along the path OF
socialism. The press of the U. S.
S. R. serves the cause Of the prole-
tartan revolution. This press is a
worker and peasant press in the
truest sense of that word, and it is
not merely press for the workers
4, and peasants.