The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-09
Open Air Work, One Of the
Most Important Phases Of
Our Activities.
By A. GUsAKOFF.

With the coming of the summer
months, a new field of activity was
opened for our party. A broad field,
which if properly utilized and ex-
plotted, meant a big gain for the
party, meant greater possibility to
reach thousands of workers thruout
the country, conveying to them our
message, spreading our literature
among them, our party monthly or
gans, and daily newspapers and giving
them the correct Interpretation of
many important events.
This field of open-air work if prop
erly organized, and earnestly sup
ported by ALL the comrades, would
give US, as the fruit of our work: New
members, new numbers of sympathi-
zers, more funds to continue our
struggle, and great number of new
readers of our dailies and periodi-
Gals.
More Attention Needed.
But it seems that many comrades
of our party do not pay much atten-
ton to this important work. Com
rades who are appoined to speak and
act as chairmen, do not show up at
meetings, comrades responsible for
the distribution of literature are fail
ing to appear, and it even happens,
that comrades who are in charge of
the platform, flag, and other neces-
sary implements do not show up at
all.
This proves to us, that many of our
comrades consider this work of
secondary Importance, or of no i'm
portance at all, and exercise much
neglect toward it.
I think, that in order to make this
work success, our comrades must
change their attitude and change it
as soon as possible. They must re-
alize that this is one of the most i'm
portant phases of our activities, as it
enables us to reach great masses of
workers, and if earnestly supported
will do much good to the party.
| want to give here in brief re-
port on the special concentration day
of section one, in order to show COM
rades of other sections what can be
achieved in this work, if the work is
properly organized.
The Special Distribution.
The special distribution day, sched-
uled for Thursday week ago, was
organized for the purpose of reaching
as many workers in our section as
possible. Special articles telling the
story of the conditions in many shops
and factories of our section, were
printed in the special section edition
of The DAILY WORKER. The Sec
ton decided to mobilize ALL the
comrades, and distribute the 10000
copies of this special issue of The
Daily. We organized net of open
air meetings in the section, and all
the comrades felt that they are in
such way building the section and
the party in this neigh
borhood.
Some Success.
Was the concentration day sue
cess?
Well, seven of the ten thousand
copies of the Daily were distributed. |
three OF the four open-alr meetings
were held, some money was collected
for the Daily, and our message
reached on this day thousands of
workers of our section.
1t is important to note that this !
day gave more enthu-
siasm to our comrades to continue
their work. and brought back to many
of them the fervor Of activity which
that his work is successful.
There is not single doubt in the
minds of the comrades of our section,
that if all the comrades would have
turned out for this work, the 10000
copies would have not been sufficient,
and at least two more open-air meet
ings could have been held.