The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11
uE Daily Worker is now entering

tor SIX years it has held out
amidst the greatest of difficulties,
occupying the center of the most
lportant struggles that have taken
ace in this period, Of the toiling
Masses against their exploiters.
For six years we have held on to
the Daily Worker with all our
strength.
There were many dark days.
There were times when our Daily
Worker was facing suspension.
From time to time we were com
PEELED to put the Daily Worker on
1our-page rations. Even now our
central organ is compelled in spite
Oh the great struggles that are tax
ing place to be printed in only four
pages on all but Saturdays.
But with all these difficulties and
shortcomings, we have won. The
Daily Worker is alive. We are Gel
ebrating the sixth anniversary.
1t is indeed great occasion for
very Communist and every revolu-
nary worker to rejoice. We have
feated all obstacles, all open at
tempts of the capitalists and their
government, their labor lieutenants,
their yellow socialists, to destroy
our Daily Worker. Even the rene
gades Cannon and then Lovestone &
Co., who also tried their hand in
the service of Morgan, Mellon, Hoo
yer & Co. and were POWERFUL enc
mics because for time they could
do damage from strategic fronts
from within, did not succeed.
We always felt proud of the fact
that we were the first and only
daily Communist Organ in the Eng
fish language. Our Daily Worker on
its seventh year will start out with
a little brother, who will go under
the same name the Daily Worker,
Organ of the Communist Party of
Great Britain. We welcome our lit
tie brother and hope that he will
grow strong and powerful. 1t is
true we will no longer receive the
attentions that are usually shower
ed upon the only child in the fam
ily., But our Communist Interna-
tional which is growing more influ-
entail and powerful among the ex-
plotted masses throughout the world
will not for a moment forget US.
III fact, now that we have two or
la ms in the English language print
"A 1 daily, the Communist Information
al will rightly expect of us that
we improve our central organ make
it more powerful, and be ready for
the big battle that are taking place,
and the even more decisive battles
that are ahead of us.
1t is hard to estimate the service
of the Daily Worker to our Party,
and the revolutionary movement in
the United States. In fact, We have
become so accustomed to having our
Daily that we can hardly imagine
how we could live and work with
out it.
In these six years of its existence,
the central organ of our Party has
been a tremendous factor in every
Siruggle of the working class, in
lery campaign of the Party. Be-
inning with the 1924 Presidential
Election Campaign, the first big job
of the Daily Worker, it has done
it's work. The 1924 campaign was
the first time our Party ventured
out openly before the broad masses
as an independent political force.
This was great moment in the life
of our Party. Following the Labor
Party debacle there was great con-
fusion not only among the masses
but even in our own ranks. 1t was
the Daily Worker that made pos
sible the clearing of the atmosphere
and the quick mobilization of our
forces, and did great service in mob
liking tens of thousands of work.
ers for the first time under the red
banner of Communism.
In the years that followed, our
Daily Worker found itself an active
force in the strikes of the miners,
the textile workers, the shoe work.
ers, the needle workers, and workers
of all trades, and all centers Of the
ybuntry who took up the struggle
Ngainst the eXploiters. 1t is still
flesh in the memory of all of us
what a role the Daily Worker play
ed in Gastonia and is playing in
the whole struggle in the South, and
as it is at present playing in the
strike Of the Illinois miners. Little
is known to most comrades OF the
role that the Daily Worker is play
ing in attracting the Negro masses
to our Party.
How much more difficult would
our tasks of forming the ne" I'M
ions, and the Trade Union Unity
League have been without the Daily
Worker!
Finally we must not forget the
role that the Daily Worker has
played in the struggle against
social reformism both within the
labor movement as a whole an in
arty itself.
1t is not for nothing that both
SIillquit and Lovestone attacked the
Daily Worker. Hillquit tried to des-
troy the Daily Worker through the