The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17
DISCUSSION
The Language Press and General
Party Campaigns

up itself and widen its own bases. So far as
keeping up these papers ard widening their
bases is concerned, this is correct. But at the
same time every language organ of the Com
munst Party must be an effective instrument
in widening the bases of the Daily Worker.
The campaign of the Daily Worker is major
campaign for the whole language press also.
At the time of the Daily Worker circulation
drive in the following number of issues there
was not a single word printed on this drive:
Freiheit d; vi Elore, 8: Novy Mir, 8; Wins,
5; II Lavoratore, 2; Avangardia, 1; Der Ar
better, 2; Obrana, 4; SaZnanie, 3; Tyomis,
Radnik, Jus lin and Ukrainian Daily News
showed more interest in the Daily Worker
campaign. The rest of the papers paid very
little attention to it.
Most of the papers participated in the
Weekly Young Worker campaign, since the
material sent out needed no translation. The
column is printed in English. But independent
of this, there was no effort to intensity this
important campaign worth mentioning.
On the Southern Weekly drive the Tyomis,
Punikll, Eteenpain and Jus Elm did good
work. The others are more or less good, but
rather more tagging behind. For instance,
the breaking into the South with Communist
paper, as great factor in the struggles of the
Southern workers generally and of the Ne
groes particularly, did not impress very much
many editors
On Elections.
On the congressional and state election cam
paign few papers printed the few articles sent
out by the Congressional Election Campaign
Committee of the Central Committee. There
is tendency again to wait with the election
campaign up to the last months and to print
only the articles sent out by the Center. Both
is incorrect. The election campaign is polit-
ical unificaton of all our struggles (and there
is many of them) in all problems affecting
the working class. Therefore, there is no need
to wait for ready-made articles but lead every
campaign as to central point, to the election
campaign. The struggles within the ruling
classes, the gratis, the anti-working class ac-
tons of the social fascists and the Musteites
must be exposed in the language press in the
light of the election campaign.
About half of our language press did not
print yet the theses prepared for the Party
convention 1t is explained only by the wrong
conception, that documents like this is only
for the central organ. But there are many
comrades who do not understand sufficiently
English. And, besides this consideration, a
Party thesis is not only for Party MEMBERS
1t is an important document for a wide circle
of sympathizers and for the whole working
class.
In all the issues of the different language
papers critically reviewed there was none which
published the articles and news items sent out
by the Workers International Relief. The
more serious it is when not only these articles
should be published, but many events should
be connected up with the function and role of z
the w. |. r.
The Friends of the Soviet Union is only oc-
casionally mentioned in very few papers.
The struggle against imperialist war and the
defense of the Soviet Union is not sufficiently
reflected in the pages of our language papers.
They are measured according to their news
value" which is wrong. Statement of our n-
ternational bodies Communist International,
Red International of Labor Unions, West Eu-
ropean Secretariat, Balkan Federation, etc y
are rarely printed in our papers. 1t must be
understood that, without the publication of
these important documents, we fail to develop
the international solidarity of the working
class to the extent necessary. few papers
still show some similarities to club papers.
The Language Bureaus must urgently and
thoroughly discuss all these shortcomings. ar
range editorial conferences and examine these
shortcomings soon they arise.