The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-26
Labor Unity Vanguard of
the Workers Press
By JOSEPH NORTH.

William Randolph Hearst, multi-millionaire
publisher, high priest of American capital
ism and one of the "59," prints 100000
copies of his newspapers daily from coast to
coast.
The Associated Press and the United Press,
as active in spreading falsehood for capitalism
as the Jesuit Society for Catholicism, click off
hundreds of miles of dispatches to more than
$500 newspapers daily. And the 1nterna-
tional News Service, owned by Hearst, runs
the A P. and U. P. ragged in pouring the
Niagara of lies upon the hundreds of million
American readers daily.
Add to these brigades, the moron weeklies
of the American Federation of Labor, the
treacherous, liberal weeklies Nation, New Re-
public. the chain of Scripps- Howard papers
which jog Green on to Organize the unor-
ganized before the Reds and the worker be-
gins to get picture of the forces of darkness
in America.
These powerful news agencies and dailies,
agitprop of the capitalist, are past-nasters
of propaganda. High paid technicians of false
hood, colunnists brisbane, Broun, Tracy
grind out their stint of transformation daily.
Pornography disguised as news, the use of
graphic illustrations, the liberal use of ex-
pensive pictures, in addition to powerful cir
structure.
The advertising department of the news
paper is the executive committee of the capt.
talist newspaper. The adve: Using department
reveals the fiction of free press" The work
ers' press cannot hope, except through most
energetic, daily struggle to reach the masses
in millions while the bosses feed their press
fabulous sums of money in advertising. Free
press exists in name only
The Role of the Revolutionary Press.
The American worker, from coast to coast,
is saying more and more, "You can't believe
all you read in the newspapers" He is in
stinctively realizing the capitalist press is his
enemy.
More and more the workers are seeking such
papers as Labor Unity, the official organ of
the Trade Union Unity League; the Daily
Worker, and other organs of the class-con-
scious strata of the proetariat.
Of all the revolutionary press, Labor Unity,
expressing the economic struggle of the work
ers, speaking to them on wage-cuts and
speed-up, on organization, appeals most to the
unorganized masses. 1t is the bridge-organ to
political consciousness. From readers of La
Dor Unity must be recruited the readers of
the Daily Worker. For from economic strug-
gle grows political consciousness and struggle
such a paper as Labor Unity. Daily such ex-
pressions come to Labor Unity as the fol-
lowing:
81 am sure pleased with the last few issues
of Labor Unity, especially the one of August
-, and anxious for the coming issues"
writes lumberjack from the state of Wash
ington.
eve have read Labor Unity and want to get
it steady. We are just waiting for something
to pop off and want to join the T. U. U. L."
writes a group of Mexican workers from
Newell, S. D. From San Antonio Texas, comes
the following: Labor Unity is good paper.
l would like to get all the subscribers can"
These are indicative. A paper of the type
of Labor Unity appeals to all strata of the
working class. It's militant program and ex-
preston appeals to all sections of the working
class, especially the most exploited millions.
A comrade tells of Negro woman worker
who upon reading Labor Unity for the first
time declared, "Why, the whole worlds out
on strike!" And because strike is and always
has been the natural response of workers to
brutal conditions, wage cuts, slavery, Labor
Unity appeals to them instinctively.
What Is To Be Done?
The question is: "How are we going to get
Labor Unity to the masses?"
That is the problem. It can be done If