The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11

ly to the left, the comrades in thu
leading committees who had beef
pursuing an over cautious and tanlt
program being eliminated and fresh
new and militant members brought
forward from the ranks. The de
bate on the Daily Worker in Eng
land soon found all those right ele-
ments arguing for postponement, ant
most all the rest for speeding VI
the date of publication.
In the end, the Party Congress
sharply condemned the sample first
page of the proposed Daily put for
ward by the old leadership, ant
branded it as a deviation to the
right, at the same time pointing out
that those who had the conception
of the Daily Worker shown by theil
sample first page, would naturally
be found doubling whether the
masses will to struggle was great
enough to justify launching it or
llle liIob VI bllC JOoi'
The main resolution adopted BY
the Party Congress declared:
without Daily there can be no
systematic exposure of the Labor
Government, and it will not be
possible to reach masses of work.
ers in the factories and organize
them in a struggle against Mac
DoraId's Social-Fascist policy. The
preparation for the publication of
the Daily on January must DOM
mate all our political and organ
isat:onal work, ard calls for the
maximum energy and self sacri-
flee on the part Of every member,
so that enthusiasm for the Daily
will be organized amongst, the
masses of workers, who will re-
gard it as their own paper and
support it financially"
The resolution on the Daily Work,
or adopted at that congress bears
b little study by those who want
real mass Daily Worker in America
1t seems that the comrades II
England have profited by some Of
our lessons, and intend to avoic
some of our failures, perhaps ever
before we correct them ourselves
After listing the evidences OF the
rising militancy and rehabilitation
of the workers in Great Britain, In
Guiding the colonial revolts, Tin an
other resolution it is pointed out
that the pehenhomena are worlt
wide, "and even America" is IN
rolved in them) the resolution goes
pn to say:
without a Party daily paper
based on. mass circulation IN
the factories and pits, the strug-
gle of the masses will remain un-
co-ordinated, it VIII reach neither
its maximum growth or political
development
That Mass Circulation.
The real test is just to get thai
mass circulation of a Communls
daily paper in the factories and pits
1t is good that the English com
rades recognize it. The Dali!
Worker in America has barely made
a beginning on the job after SD
years struggle.
Perhaps our slowness is because
we have failed to do some of the
elementary things the Communis
Party of Britain outlined as frs
steps. After indicating the neces
sity of winning over the presen
readers of the weekly Workers Life
and the Sunday Worker, the congress
delegates find that the circulation
of these papers is too little in thu
factories and develop a plan t.
draw all sympathetic organization!
into the task of building up Th'
Daily Worker.
But even more important than thu
Minority Movement and W. l. r.
ETC., machinery for this purpose il
a plan for direct circulation ant
news gathering contact with TIT
masses of workers themselves. Th'
resolution states:
"The non-Party and sympathe-
tic workers must be drawn to the
supporting of the Daily Worker
through the establishment of Daily
Worker Groups, based primarily in
the factories, but if necessary in
the localities.
Close Contact
"Their function is to supply ma
terial on the conditions and strug-
gle of the workers and to elect a
worker correspondent for the or
ganization of this work, to actively
participate in the mass popularisa-
ton of the paper and the collection
of finance, etc.
"Only on the basis of expert
ence and mass development can
we finally decide politically on
the question of what precise forms
of organization the Daily Worker
Groups can achieve.
Every Party local, factory or
pit group, concentration group,
ETC., must elect a worker cores
pondent for the Daily Worker in
order to ensure the organization
of every member as a correspon-
dent for our paper. The Daily
Worker correspondent has the
most important task of seeing him
self that the material is prepared
and that all forces possible are
also drawn into this task.