The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
A Guide to Action

Within few years time the Workers
(Communist) Party has become the one Or
ganization leading the mass struggles OF the
American working class. The reactlonary
officialdom of the American Federation OF
Labor is now Enthusiastically identified with
the ruling powers, the open-shoppers, the
eonnany-union apostles and the other en-
ernies of the working class. So fragrant has
been the role of that bureaucracy that hun
dreds of thousands of workers seek elsewhere
for leadership. The socialist party machine,
incapable of leading any section of the work
ing class, is openly appealing to the middle
class elements who supported LaFollette IN
1924 but with scant results. On the trade
union field the socialist party is merely the
tail end of the most vicious strike-breaklng
elements in the American labor movement.
What militant tendencies it once had are now
perpetuated by the Workers Communist
Party.
The Party, placed by history in the very
forefront of the struggle has an influence
all out of proportion to its actual member
shin. Even that fact can be explained be-
cause of the rapid development of the strug-
gle, especially in mining, textile and needle
trades during the past few years.
N|NO
leader of mass struggle is reflected in the
columns of it's official organ, The Daily
Worker More and more the militant work
ers are coming to look to the columns of this
paper as a guide to action in their every day
struggles. Not few workers have said that
when serious problem faces them in their
trade unions, or in their fight with the thugs
and gangster agents of the employers they
look through the columns of the Daily
Worker in order to learn the right policy that
should be adopted.
Every day many letters come to this office
praising our editorials, our handling of the
news of strikes, of election campaigns-ln-
dications of our becoming power among
the masses of workers and farmers.
Yet, in spite of this, our circulation does
not increase as it should. Our comrades and
supporters who look to us as guide in their
struggles do not seem even yet, after all our
campaigns, after all our drives for funds to
tide us over desperate periods in which we
thought each issue would be the last, to re-
alize that the one permanent guarantee of
the future of any paper such as ours must
be big subscription list.
We have been conducting a subscription
drive for number of weeks with some re-
suits, but certainly these results have not
been what they ought to be in this presi-
dental election year when so many issues are
being dramatically placed before them.
We on the editorial staff and business Staff
of the Daily Worker want to make the paper
much more effective than it is. We can do
so only on condition that all our readers be-
come subscription boosters. If in New York
get your neighbor to purchase the paper on
the newsstands; if in other cities get at least
one subscription TODAY and adopt policy
of getting at least one week. In that way
you can aid the DAILY to become self
supporting and at the same time furnish US
with ammunition that we can use effectively
against our class enemies of all shades.