The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-13
WINCHESTER WORKERS
WELCOME SHOP PAPER

and a most appropriate design for
a factory and shop paper.
Across the front page is promin-
emily written "Vote Communist"
Below, is smaller letters-"Workers
Party" then the Hammer and Sickle
on each side of which are the names
of the candidates for various offices.
The second page of the bulletin
carries For Whom Shall We Vote ?"
A brief explanation is given of the
individual candidates and platforms
of various parties in the field in this
election campaign, ending with eve
must vote for our own party-the
Workers Party!" This is supposed
to be the editorial of the paper and.
in my opinion, as a special election
edition, it was an excellent way of
putting it. The third page played
UP one of the most vital and burn
ing issues affecting the workers
in the shop at that particular time,
namely the institution of the So
called Employees Fund Association
in the Winchester factory, for which
the workers are asked" to allow
the bosses to deduct weekly from
their pay pay envelopes a certain
percertag- of their meager wages.
This the bulletin played up we'll and
branded as "plain robbery" The
page is headed "Stop the Raid on
Our Pay Envelopes!" and concludes
with Down with the Hold Up
Refuse Deduction from Your Pay
Envelopes!"
The fourth and fifth pages carry
briefly and in the simplest language
possible the most important de-
mands of our election platform, end
ing up with the slogans: "Vote and
Join the Workers (Communist)
Partyp
The sixth page of the bulletin con-
tains two well written articles: one
on What is decentralization? and
the other "Old Men for New"
ldSkitS OutH fTODleHlS.
The last two pages of the Win
chester Worker are devoted to the
youth problems. This also passes as
one of the best youth pages I have
ever seen. An attempt is made to
use as near SHOP language" as
| possible, with snapshots and Jokes
having human interest from the
working class point of view, which
is quite good.
The youth page concludes with
seven most important youth de-
mands in the election campaign, af-
ter which an appeal is made to all
young workers to join the Young
Workers (Communist) League and
subscribe to the Young Worker.
The Winchester Worker as the
official organ of our shop nucleus
will eventually play a greater and
greater role in our fight against the
impe,ialist war, which is becoming
more imminent daily, the prepared
attack against the Soviet Union, as
well as the organization of the I'M
organized workers into militant
trade unions.
Must Build Papers.
The possibility for mass influence
and activity on the part of our Par
ty thru shop papers cannot be over
estimated. The necessity for issuing
more bulletins and laying such basis
as to guarantee their permanent
existence once issued, in a given
plant, cannot be too strongly en-
phasized, particularly in huge and
basic plants such as ammunition,
metal, steel, ETC., where the workers
are totally unorganized and most
terribly exploited, is the bulletin to
champion the interests of. the work
ers and to rally them around our
Party's program necessary. Our
papers generally, as Lenin said, are
field organizers for our Party. This
becomes more obvious and assumes
SlCdICI ACdAiIy do OuI airy cIlLcTS
into the stage of becoming mass
Party.
A fierce battle of class struggle
will rage soon in these industries.
But when that time comes we must
have well established shop papers
in the basic industrial plants thru
out the entire country. The Party,
thru the issuance Of shop bulletins
has entered for the first time in it's
history on the road to real mass
leadership of the proletariat. We
must have more shop papers, but
we must have them at the same time
established on the firm foundation
so that once issued, they must per-
manently function as organs of the
workers in the shops
The Winchester Worker will be
that organ for the workers<in hal
plant in the city Of New hHsY.l,