The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-07

TT O,EIabartv workers (Com
80 'AeS munist) Party
of which the Daily Worker is the
central organ, is the only political
party in the United States that COM
bines subscription drive with an
election campaign. One is compile
mentary to the other.
THE big difference between the at
titude of the Workers (Commu
nist) Party and capitalist parties to-
wards election campaigns is mirrored
in this subscription drive The CAPT
talist parties are out for votes, and
we include in this category the Carl
cature of socialist party, headed
by Norman Thomas. The Com
munists are in the campaign
to make revolutionists by agi-
tation and propaganda, to help in
the organization of militant indus
trial unions and to bring all class
conscious workers into the Commu-
mist Party.
CONVINCING workers to vote the
" Communist ticket is an ex-
tremely important duty. Getting
those voters to subscribe to the
Daily Worker is doubly important.
The speeches made by Communist
speakers during an election cam
paign may be quickly forgotten by
thousands of workers on whom they
made an impression at the moment.
Even workers who vote for the
Communist ticket as a result of
those speeches may become lost to
the movement afterwards unless
they are kept constantly in touch
with the activities of the Workers
(Communist) Party. But when you
get worker to subscribe to the
Daily Worker, there is a strong pos
sibility that he will become a con-
WINGED Communist and a member
of the Party.
0HOULD the Communist ticket
poll 100000 votes in this election
campaign and secure 10000 new
readers for the Daily Worker and
5000 new members for the Workers
| (Communist) Party, this would be
considered by the Central Executive
Committee of the Party more sue
cessful election campaign than if the
Party ticket polled 100000 votes,
but failed to secure any subscrip-
tons to the Daily or any new men,
bers for the Party. Such cam
paign would be hardly worth the
time and energy expended on it. 1t
would be only bubble, like the cam
paigns of the socialist party which
always put the emphasis on votes.
This is not the kind of a campaign
that the Communist Party is
making.
THERE are wonderful possibilities
for realizing the goal of 10000
new subscribers for the Daily Work
er between now and voting day in
November. Every worker who signs
his name to Communist petition
is prospect for sub. In the state
of Ohio alone the comrades collected
10000 signatures Ten thousand of
those were collected in Cleveland.
If only one out of every twenty of
those signers could be induced to
subscribe to the Daily Worker il
would be a great accomplishment
and guarantee for broadening the
base of the Party in Ohio. This APP
plies to every other state.
OUR readers must not come to the
" conclusion that the subscription
list is closed to members of the
Party. They should be the first to
subscribe. The business manager
will tell you that papers sold on the
newsstand are a financial loss, to
the Daily Worker Publishing Com
pany. 1t is better that the profit
made by the distributor and the
news-agents should 60 where it will
do most good, in the. Golfers of the
Daily Worker, tho everything should
be done to encourage newsstand
sales. A revolutionary newspaper
is usually published at loss. The
big business advertisers that enable
the capitalist newspapers to run
large editions with all kinds of fea-
lures would not give Polish zloty
to the Daily Worker, which depends
almost entirely on subscriptions and
contributions from the workers.
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