The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-05
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By JORGE

When we we're recently engaged in light
hearted attempt to bring sense OF responsibility
to various district officials of our Party regarding
the need for paying Daily Worker accounts, the
few directors who quibbled over whether We
should term the irresponsibes pirates" or let II
stay as previously noted in official literature az
"vandals" quite overlooked the main question
How is the Daily Worker ID live?
The little" matter of debts due from districts
for papers sent out having increased from $lO,-
600 to $4,000 in the course of six months did
not seem to trouble a number of these "vandals,
who protest ct being called pirates"
An instance was recently called to our atten-
ton which may explain the bithe Indifference
OF certain of our flock to appeals from us. In
q certain city, a comrade passing through en-
route to New York, reported that she happened
in when the local Party officials were making
to77re of bills from the Daily Worker When
asked what the big idea was for such, the reply
was given
COB, the Daily gets money from Russia and
only sends bills matter of form. We use
the money from sales ourselves as we need it,
1t seems that this, or some similar notion, is
the net result of comrades who listen to j. Ham
ilton Fish Matte Vol and Norman Thomas,
instead OF to the Daily worker,
Recently we were astoniShed to hear over the
radio some old patriotic hen assuring the world
that this building wherein, much to our dis
comfort we are located, cost 100000, which
OF course came from Russia" 1t was described
as palatial and all the rest thst it is not.
rs a matter of fact the ELEVATOR men, who
manage by some heroic means to keep one ele-
vator running while the other one Is on the
blink, are complaining that they got no wages
last week and the obvious fact that it seems
difficult to accomplish the five year plan" in less
than fourteen shows without any intimate
knowledge of accounts that the building man
agement has no open account with the Soviet
treasury.
Likewise, the Daily Worker, to the support Of
which the editorial and business staff has been
contributing large part of their wages from
time immemorial. cannot be convinced that the
Soviet is dumping" any cargoes of Russian
gold in this neck of the woods.
This is not to say that the workers in the
Soviet Union have no right to contribute to any
movement they are in sympathy with in capital-
list countries They have that right. but just as
unquestonably. they have the right to conserve
every cent to build socialist industry. and still
further a right to expect the American workers
to support their own movement. ,
So it gives us pain in the neck to encounter
evidence that some of our 'vandals, (well not
insist on the word pirates if comrades simply
cannot lay aside their subjectivity) refuse to pay
Daily Worker bills for reasons which they take
right out of the mouth of J. Hamilton Fish, Jr.
At the time we we're commenting on these
"vandals' we stated that if substantial sums on
their debts were not paid, that one of these days
all ard sundry workers would be asked to cons
tribute a days pay or something like that to
save the Daily from suspension. s
That day is here. So cough up And if II
makes matters any more pleasant for you, re-
member that WE TOLD YOU sol