The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
The 'Empros," Our Greek
Communist Weekly, to
Join the Ranks Of Dailies
By ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.


To be sure, group of workers may we'll overestimate
their strength they may build their press too large
scale, and fail to achieve their ambitions That would
be Of mistaken judgment that must be guarded
against
This latter estimate however, surely does not apply
to the Greek workers in the United States who accept
the leadership of the Greek Section of the Workers
(Communst) Party.
They have bulded their press strong foundation
Their present organ, altho weekly, has the widest
workers in this country but also in other lands to which
Greek workers have been exled driven by economic
necessity, we'll as in fascist Greece today
It is with great pleasure that The DAILY WORKER
extends its greetings that appeared today page one
to its brother organ, The EmprOs. The removal of
this militant publication of Communist movement
to New York signifies two things:
FIRST: our Greek comrades striving to
get in touch with broader of workers who
speak their language.
SECOND That they confident that New York
City will provide the basis for building their weekly
into DAILY EMPRoS.
Greek workers are no strangers to the American
class struggle In many conflicts of the coal miners,
notably in labors heroic efforts against the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, owned by the Rockefeller in
terests in this Rocky Mountain state, the Greek
workers especially noted for their courage in the class
struggle.
In the steel strikes in the copper fields in the iron
mining districts the Greek workers have also been in
labor The Empros speaks the spirit Of this struggle
Thus, in any great industrial district The Empros
would be among its friends and supporters. In New
York City however The Empros has support of the
large number of Greek workers in the fur industry
well as in the food industry. 1t is estimated that in
New York City and vicinity at least million workers
engaged in the preparation and handling of food,
the daily necessity of the growing population of the
metropolis Among these there large and influential
numbers Of Greek workers.
The spirit displayed by these workers in the past,
in support of their press indicates that there is
possibility of establishing The Daily Empros,
thus adding to the battery of Communist daies helping
build the left wing of the labor movement to carry
the slogans of miltancy to everncreasing masses of
workers
In their struggle the Greek workers will develop their
daily organ, a smaller scale perhaps but in
proportion just our Freihet published in Jewish,
showed itself to be by filling Madison Square Garden
for its Fifth Anniversary last Saturday night
All workers struggling to establish their English
language organ, The DAILY WORKER, may rest
sured that the Greek workers will give every possible
assistance in the future they have done in the past
in this effort.
They recognize, just as workers in every foreign
language section of the American population have
to realize, that Engish-language press is absolutely
necessary No argument left after the officaldom
of the American Federation of Labor turned loose their
mud guns and opened up their campaign of attempted
expusions against the needle trades workers in New
York City, that considered exclusively the province
of the foreign language press
It is certain, Therefore, that the Greek workers,
they build their press will continue to inspire thru
their deeds all other workers in the building of The
DAILY WORKER.
There are in New York City at the present time
The Freheit, published in JEWISH the Elore, in Hun
garian; Laisve, in Lithuanian and The Daily News,
Ukrainian. The DAILY WORKER only recently joined
this quartet of Communist fighters. The coming of
the Empros and its development into daily will make
a half dozen of dailies ralying the workers for
effective struggle.
It be forgotten that there two weekles,
the Novy Mir in Russian, and Lavoratore, in Italian.
These weeklies have been dailies The Italian and Rus
sian workers anxiousy working to restore them to
their former effectiveness. The absence of Italian
daily, for instance, makes it impossible to rally the
Italian workers in the mining industry, in the needle
trades and elsewhere with the same degree of effec
veness that would be possible with Italian daily in
existence to lead the struggle.
What a mighty battery laundering for labor. But.
matter how mighty this battery is it must and
be strengthened.
The army of readers of The DAILY WORKER to-
dayis approximately what The Freheit had during the
first three years Of its existence Then it began
to grow by the proveribal eaps and bounds especially
in the Joint Action Committee struggle in the lnterna
tional Ladies Garment Workers Union, in New York
City, in 1926 and during the furrers strike that
the rty-hour, five-day week, the following year.
Our battery is strong but it shoot something
1t shoot effectively at the daily problems
the workers. the issues that Immediately engage the
attention Of the masses, using them levers to pry
the workers loose from their conservatism and
them for the greater struggles. On this basis every
Communist daily will continue to make progress, even
progress is being made at the present time, altho
not to the degree that would be desired Progress made
should be urge greater and rapid progress