The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
A CHALLENGE

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Let the enemies of the working the strange
hold which the soad patriotic societies and military organiza
lions are seeking secure The DAILY WORKER Let
qualified joy express financial capital in Wall
Street political capital in Washington from their
naval and military centers in Annapolis and West Point
No doubt there are other dangerous
of the working class who eXung either openly or IN
the multiplication of papers difficulties is not
here to attempt any examination OF these forces Their
and best indicated by their activities
the trade unions in the political campaigns in the recent de-
Tense activities OF the masses OF workers OF America
is more important here to indicate those movements which
can take no Joy IN the obstacles which have been set IN our path
those forces which view only ncacuabe calamity the
possibility that The DAILY WORKER may be forced to suspend
me-
The great miners which
motion with such promise to the future of the Amer
lean labor movement and in whose development The DAILY
WORKER takes small pride will find joy in the prospect
Those who haveved in the spirit of the few weeks develop
men in the miners struggle will understand the truth of this
claim
The great army of unemployed whose numbers it has been
shown have reached proportions will eXu should
paper under What instrument for the advancement
of the of the obes millions to be found today? Through
what other channels will the unemployed find expression for their
struggle against their masters who have turned them out with
out the responsibility accepted by mastershat of
feeding their slaves.
The unorganzed masses in the country who to degree have
already learned of the activities of The DAILY WORKER and
the Party which represents futherng the important
task before the working cassthe unorganzed who are rapidly
learning that paper and Party will in the future be the
whom entrust the leadership of this struggle will
find little satisfaction the danger which faces the
tral organ of our Party.
Those who understand what The DAILY WORKER means
the fight against American Imperialism against the dan
for the protection of the Soviet Union will likewise find
joy the attack the paper which than any other agency
today the embodiment of the emancipation Of the American
working class
insufficient realization of what the attack on
The DAILY WORKER really Not those of the adj
guard in the workers struggles against whom the attack
Immediately directed have sufficiently indicated their respon
sibiity their response
call to battle has gone out to the working of which
the attack The DAILY WORKER is but the first faint echo
The workers of America the members Of Party particularly
must ask themselves What shall say capacity
vastly trying situations infinitely greater tasks ncompar
ably greater sacrifices
meet the relatively simple issue before us
The American working class at the opening of its period
struggle The challenge has been thrown
section That challenge be rejected the workers
desired The working class has other road but that
struggle, sacrifice, fight
The DAILY WORKER must live!
What shall be the response the American working class to
its enemies who say that The DAILY WORKER shall die
How strong and how immediate shall that response be!