The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-06
The Daily Workers Birthday

One week from today The DAILY WORKER celebrates It's
Fourth Anniversary This is more than recognition OF the pass
ing has deep political significance for the WORKING
class of the United States and of the world 1t proves 1naC e
ruthless drive against part of the mghtest imperial
list ruling class the world has ever seen has faed TO sure the
of the vanguard of the working class the communists
When in 1928 the drive to launch The DAILY WORKER
started the labor movement had reached hgh stage Oh
mtancy The labor party agitation at its peak with nun
reds thousands striving create machinery with
which combat the parties of capitalism The agitation Tor
amalgamaon of the craft unions into powerful industrial unions
profoundly affected the labor movement even to the extent
of ensng the mdest Of trade union progressv In general
the movement was on the upgrade
such an environment the Workers (Communst) Party
waged campaign to launch its official daily organ But the
reaction had set in before the first issue off the press The
progressves frightened at the magnitude of the move
ment which they themselves had he ped to build went over TO
camp reaction and have since tried to oudo in sub
rncy to the master class those in the labor movement VINO
always avowed opponents of independent class action on the
part of the workers.
The first year of The DAILY WORKER the merging of
great part the labor party sentiment into the of petty
bourgeois progressvsm exemped by the LaFoette third
party Of especial significance in this regard was
the that the Gompes machine could not support the
old parties of the effectiveness of the labor party ag
on against them during the two preceding years. and found
itself trailing in the wake of the Latolettltes.
favorable conditions the survival of Communist
daily existing previous to the publication of first issue turned
opposite period of blacklist reaction swept the labor
This reaction characterized by failure Of the Of
fetal leadership of the labor movement to fight even against the
capitalist attempts destroy the mde and most
When this treachery pointed out by the
Communists the rghtwng leaders turned with unexamped Jury
against all who fought for the elementary demands of the work
and merely all the machinery their command
against made the open and brazen alliances with the
employers the police and the courts desperate drive to exer-
every vesge of revolt against wagecu engthenng
hears and the introduction of the whole policy of reachey known
he higher strategy of labor that euphemm for policy of
selling out the workers to the employers
spite of the reaction spite Of the drive against labor
spite the mperast policy of trying to crush labor at home
order that power would challenge the international rapact
the yankee mperast have held
the empesuous of the class struggle On countless
seemed though would be swallowed the hur
that ragged craft But have weahered all
and still onward with sails and standards of
revolution defantly floating
There has not been single moment that could be called IA
voabe existence the day the Chicago first
began grind the January 18TH 1924 edition of The DAILY
WORKER But next week spite Of ALL celebrate fourth
anniversary.
The workers of the United States have organ that de-
their against the combined forces of the
The workers of the world the sehng of the colonies and
the semcoones that under the blight of American
peras know that here the soil from which
that Imperialism there evergrowng force defanty
utonary that challenges dollar depotsm and calls them
fight with at hand with order put end
Joint servitude And The DAILY WORKER is living
of the vitality of this force.
Every worker who knows of the valiant history Of
show his loyalty the by rang at the
various places throughout the United States where anniversary
being held and here in New York. the capital of
American Imperialism supporters should fill to Overlooking
night in order may able the Fifth Year with
more determination than