The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-06

recCly prior TO ana following MdICH otHI q llldH-
ifesto was printed in bold type appealing to the
social-democratic workers to join in the protest
against the bloody social-fascist terror, but
that correct appeal was not properly linked up
with references to the common interests of the
workers in the struggle for work or wages, as
the material basis for the united front from
below.
The second important defect of the campaign
was the fact that the Rote Fahne, while dealing
excellently with the theological role of the C.P
in the fight against unemployment ignored its
organizational role. Throughout the whole
campaign there was not single article about
the role of the factory cells The page devoted
daily to factory life, did not bear any imprint
of the factory movement and devoted still less
space to the united front from below. In gen
eral one finds in the Communist press, too
many dry instructions and too few live accounts
as to how the definite campaign in the factories
has actually been prepared and conducted
The third defect was the inadequate utilza-
ton of material on the U. S. S. R. The anti
Soviet Campaign of the churches was not suf-
ficently linked up with questions of March
9Th. Once February 26th, but unfortunately
only once, information on socialist construction
in the USSR. was given a prominent place
on the front page. The most important In
precorr article on the fight against unemploy-
ment in the U.S.SR. appeared after March
9Th. In general the utilization of material
the tremendous successes of socialist construc-
ton is still quite inadequate, whereas the bour-
geois press prints its false and sensational in
formation about the U.S.S.R. on the first or
second pages. The Rote Fahne has the bad
habit of tucking away current news about the
U.S.S.R. on the so-called third political page,
where it does not sufficiently strike the. eye.
In that and certain other respects, we must
point out the excellent way the campaign was
conducted by the Hamburger Volkszeitung."
With regard to illustrations (pictures, car
toons, etc., this campaign was very weak.
From the theological standpoint it should be
observed that such an important organ as the
Rote Fahne should have given more attention
also to the theoretical questions arising in con-
nection with mass unemployment.
As far as pHumanite is concerned, this paper,
in the final weeks, devoted leading and top
articles to the March 9th campaign almost
every day. The international nature of the
campaign was very we'll brought out. A poiti-
cally weak point in the campaign, at the time
of the French governmental crisis, was that in
dealing with this crisis, the questions of the
employed movement were relegated to the
background. ,PHumanite paid more attention
than Rote Fahne did to the particular cate
gories of workers. 1t appealed to civil servants
and soldiers to take part in the March 9Th dem
onstratons The weakest point of the cam
paign in PHumanite was also the treatment of
the movement in the factories. We only found
one small article on how the March 9Th cam
paign was prepared in the factories. The edit
orial did not supply such articles with the prop
er commentary, calling upon other factories to
follow the example set.
Information on the U.S.S.R in the pages of
IL
nst as inadequate as formerly. The daily
publication of two or three kilograms on the
USS.R for the information of the French
workers was totally inadequate in view of the
frantic anti-Soviet campaign going on in the
whole French bourgeois press. On March 9Th
PHumanite devoted whole page to the U.S.
SIR. and the material on unemployment was
very well arranged, but this material was quite
out of date. The very important new material
on this question, however, the fact of the con-
siderable decrease of unemployment in the us
S.R., was not utilized This was serious omis-
sion! The PHumanite leading articles in sue
cinct and ineligible manner expounded the
main ideas of the campaign and correctly adj
vocated the E.CC.I. slogans. The paper
very weak, however, in the way it dealt with
the purely agitatonal treatment of the prob
ems Instead of making the paper an organic
restricted itself to agitation and propaganda.
AS far as quantity is concerned the Daily
Worker (London) contained great deal of ma
terial on the question of unemployment and the
March 9Th campaign, but unfortunately, here
quantity surpassed quality. Dull and boring
treatment impaired or weakened even the best
articles. The day-to-day slogans were mono
tonous and vapid. Such slogans as Fight
against unemployment across a whole page,
were not capable of setting the masses going
and mobilizing them for the struggle. The big
gest defect of the Daily Worker was that:
the campaign was inadequately utilized to ex-
pose and pillory the treacherous character of
the Labor government. Throughout the whole
campaign quotations from the promises made
to the unemployed by Macdonald and the
Labor Party, on the of their entering the
government, should have been printed in big
type The latest unemployment figures should
have been constantly made to shout out from
the columns, to make striking impression.
They should have been accompanied by illustra-
tons and diagrams, but there was nothing of
the SORT A great deal of material was pub
lished on the U.S.S.R, some Of which was
useful, but specific material on unemployment
was NOT ,Jtilized There was M distinction he.