The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02

THE recent conference of the
i Daily Worker agents was one
of the most constructive conferences
held for long time. The record
attendance at this conference was
the first sign of the growing re-
Spouse of the Daily Worker agents
to their work. The number of
agents who took part in the general
discussion was another indication of
the growth of the understanding on
the part of the comrades on the i'm
portance of this work. The accom-
plishments, as we'll as the many
shortcomings were discussed in
constructive way SO as to be able,
on the basis of the lessons gained
from the discussion, to increase the
accomplishments and greatly lessen
the shortcomings and reduce the
many obstacles.
Among the plans accepted at this
conference, were the plans for the
revival of the Daily Worker Builders
Clubs, utilizing to the utmost ex-
tent the great number of sympa-
thizers that our movement has.
The organization of such clubs
must proceed not only on the basis
of residential territory, (sections),
where the workers live, but the for
nation of such clubs in shops and
factories and other places of work
should be carried on more intensely.
A good basis for the organization
of such clubs in shops and factories
should be the carrying of the
Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund into
the shops and factories, recruiting
the maximum number of workers
as possible for the building and
Strengthening of the Daily Worker,
by not only making them regularly
readers of the Daily, but also re-
cruiting them for assistance in
form of various contributions, such
as contributions of articles, news
items, shop news, etc, and financial
contributions to the Daily.
These /. contributors to be later
united into clubs of Daily Worker
builders, They should very often
be called together in order to also
take up and discuss important prob
lens confronting them, as well as
the important issues in the Labor
Movement. ri y 49,.
At the same time it was made
clear at this conference that col
lection Of the Ruthenberg Sustain
ing Fund in the units is not system
lied, and therefore does not bring
the desirable results.
Not all the. section and unit Daily
Worker agents are yet paying suffi-
cient attention to this work, which
if properly followed up, will greatly
decrease the necessity of SO many
special appeals and money-raising
campaigns conducted by the Daily.
The achievement of some sections
in this particular field of work;
namely section one andsfive, is very
indicative of what could be done
for the Daily through this weekly
paying system properly followed up
by the units.
In connection with the immediate
practical tasks discussed at this
conference there was also lengthy
discussion on such questions like
Workers Correspondence and the
necessity to increase the circulation
of the Daily. 1t was made clear at
the conference, that these two
phases of the work are intertwined,
and therefore cannot be separated,
that we cannot increase the circula-
ton of the Daily, get more readers
and subscribers for it, if we do NOT
also at the same time consider the
problem of lettering the contents of
the Daily, and making it more and
more mass-organ Of the workers.
It is precisely in this light that
we must consider the question OF
Workers Correspondence as a part