The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09

4 LIZ IcW reign OF terror against
the Communist Party in France
is recognition of the growing
power of the organization as well as
a sign of the approach of another
war. The socialists have ceased to
protest against war. In fact it was
socialist who introduced the bill
which was passed by the French
legislature calling for the conscrip-
ton of every man and woman in the
republic for service in the next war,
either on the battlefront or behind
the lines, in the factories and on the
farms.
| HUMANITE, the great Communist
- daily has circulation of 100000
the largest circulation of any Com
munist daily in the world outside of
the Soviet Union. Humanite was
once the organ of the socialist
party of France but the Comnun-
lists got control of it. Tho the
French socialists pull heavier
vote in election campaigns than the
Communists they have no daily pa
per. The French socialists are i'm
perialists and are not organized for
the purpose of overthrowing capital
ism but to secure office. Almost
every political party in France from
the extreme right to the so-called
left claims to be socialist of some
hue, but there is only one party or
gained with the aim of establishing
a Workers Republic and that is the
Communist Party.
WHEN will the Daily Worker have
" a circulation one half that of the
great French daily? Or even one
fourth. Comrade Ravitch the new
business manager showed me figures
that go to prove that the circulation
of the Daily Worker is on the up
grade. The part it played in the
miners strike and the part it is
now playing in the New Bedford
strike has contributed to this up
ward trend. But much greater
progress could be made if every
Communist and sympathiser took
the task of spreading the paper
seriously.
ONE of the weak spots in Com
: munist activity in the United
States is the slackness in the dis
tribution of literature. The written
word is powerful and travels faster
than the spoken word. One copy of
the Daily Worker may be read by
ten persons. If it falls into the
hands of worker who never read it
before, he is sure to be interested
and to talk about it to his fellow
workers. He may curse over its
contents but at least it will affect
him. The writer usually leaves his
copy in subway train and notices
that no sooner is the paper tossed
on to the seat than somebody makes
a dash for it.
CUBWAY trainmen are in the habit
of picking up papers found in the
cars. Perhaps they are supposed to
do this as matter of duty. Per-
haps saving a few pennies that
might be. otherwise spent on a
newspaper is the motive. But how
ever they can be depended on to
grab Daily Worker and take it to
the barn where it will be read by
others. Those who have a few ex-
ira pennies to spare mornings could
not use them to better advantage
than by purchasing few copies of
the Daily Worker and leaving them
where proletarian eye is most
likely to fall on them.
| IT is possible that inside Of a few
years our debutantes will not
have to go to Europe to snare
counts, barons and dukes, thanks to
the Russian emigres who still keep
the lamp of hope trimmed in their
hearts, hope that the Romanoffs
will yet return to the throne of their
ancestors. The Grand Duke Cyril,
who is living in Paris, made baron
OUT VI OlldTleS L van WTdnRel, OF
420 West 130th Street, New York.
You can imagine well-to-do boot
logger living in that section of the
metropolis but hardly a baron.
SOMEWHERE in scripture it is
said that hope deferred maketh
the heart sick. But as long as
Russian emigre gets wealthy
American widow to marry him hope
springs eternal in his breast. What
of it If the jolly old Romanoffs
never get back on the throne as long
as the countless pretenders have
their roast Long Island duck and a
bottle of champagne? And while on
the subject Of the sparkling giggle
water, we learn that the most pro-
minent supporter of Grand Duke
Cyril is fellow with the title and
name of Duke Dimitri, who is an
agent for leading brand of cham
payne. Most anybody in such posi-
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