The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-31
The Economic Crisis and Our
Foreign Language Press

pages, to the decisively important problems of
the working class, like unemployment, building
shop committees, ETC. t4.
NOvy Mir RUSSIAN weekly: In five issues an
editorial on the struggle for unemployment in
surance, an article On the. coal crisis and small
news items and announcements on the struggle
against unemployment. No healines. The editor
does not seem to find the struggle for unemploy-
ment insurance important enough.
Tyomies, Eteenpain ami Toyer diminish
dailies): In every one of these papers there is
hardly one news item on the front page which
is connected with our campaign for unemploy-
ment relief and insurance, besides having one
article or editorial on the same question at a
time when the entire paper should be trans
formed into living instrument in the struggle for
unemployment insurance, against evictions,
against wage cuts, for building the unemployed
councils and the revolutionary unions.
vi EIore Hungarian Daily: In IL issues (end
of Sept and first half of Now there are alto
gether 10 news items, articles and editorials re-
lated to the building of our unions. In four
issues Dec. 1918 there are four front page news
items and five editorials and articles on the I'M
employment campaign. Certainly, this is un-
satisfactory In one respect there is improve
ment in connecting UP the problem of unemploy-
ment with the problems Of the Hungarian mass
organizations.
Panover tArmenian weekly: In three issues
(Nov. 2s-Dec 800 there are nine articles news
items, editorials, on the campaign for unemploy-
ment insurance.
II Lavoratore italian weekly: In four issues
(Sept. 6-Oct. d there are Is articles news items
and editorials related to trade union problems
Better than any other language paper On the
unemployment campaign the paper is decidedly
unsatisfactory. In Dec. Goth issue for example
there are only three correspondence and moth
ing else.
Vida Obrera Spanish weekly: In two issues
Oct. 6-Nov. 100 five articles and news items on
the trade unions Dec. %, three articles on I'M
employment insurance. Somewhat better than
many other papers
Der Arbeter German weekly: AS far as the
space given to unemployment and union work
is concerned, the paper is good. But, in its APP
proach to the problems of the workers, too me-
chanical Takes little care about the industries
Qike aeroplane) where tremendous numbers of
German workers are employed, and at present
unemployed.
Wins Lithuanian daily: Even when It has
one or two articles on the campaign for unem-
ployment insurance, it is not saturated with the
spirit of the campaign. The daily events are not
linked up with the campaign.
Laisve Lithuanian daily) Gives somewhat
more on trade unions questions, but the same
criticism stands good for Laisve, as for yilnis
in the isolation Of the daily events from the
struggles led by our unions and our Party.
Radnik Jugoslavian daily: Takes somewhat
more seriously the struggle for unemployment
insurance than other language papers.
The other language organs are also far re-
moved from the unemployment campaign and
from being instruments in building our unions
Most Of our papers refuse to print the ready
material sent to them by our unions For ex-
emple. the Mine. Oil and smelter Workers In
dustrial Union gathered material on wage cuts
speed-up, naturalization, unemployment acci-
dents, ETC.. worked these into form Of articles
by concrete examples. Only two papers pub
lished these articles. The space Is taken in many
instances with material which should not be pub
nshed in our press (like articles Of the Foreign
Language Information Bureau).
!. Our editorial staffs with very few exceptions)
do not hold editorial conferences to discuss the
instructions of the Party. No wonder then, that
before the Party is in position to mobilize the
masses for unemployment insurance, ETC.. weeks
and months are lost. until our editors are mobil-
lied to fully understand the great Importance OF
this campaign. The Buros in most cases do not
scrutinze the papers for which they are chiefly
responsible. do not discuss the shortcomings Of
the papers.
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