The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
The Significance of Workers
Correspondence

group correspondence to our Party, language
and trade union press
The method of building these groups is very
simple. No complicated problems of organiza-
ton should be involved The groups should be
started by getting together two, three or more
workers in a specific neighborhood, shop, factory
or city to send regular contributions to our
press. responsible comrade should be as
signed in each section to give guidance and
leadership to this work, to develop and instruct
the groups and to keep the groups in touch with
the national workers correspondence committee
The groups should meet regularly to discuss
their material and the Immediate problems and
struggles of the workers that need immediate
attention in our press
In city where there are several worker cor
respondents sending regular letters to our press
these workers should be called together to form
group. These groups must be non-dues pay
ing and should draw in the unorganized work.
ers and V rkers in the A. F. of L. unions Daily
Worker ubs and all workers clubs and organ
izat1onS -ust be drawn into the work of build
ing worker correspondence groups within their
structure to send in regular collective cor
respondence
International Correspondence
Not only must our worker correspondents send
letters to the American revolutionary press, but
we must build up a stronger international COR
reSpondence movement We must stimulate an
increasing exchange of letters between the work
ers in the United States and the workers in the
Soviet Union and the capitalist countries and
their colonies. One of the functions of the work
ers correspondence groups is to send regular
group letters to the press to be forwarded to the
Soviet Union, Germany England, France, China,
etc, These letters will be published in the press
abroad and replies to them will appear in the
columns of the American press.
What to Write About.
What should worker correspondents write
about? The burning issues that face the work.
ers daily. Throughout all the stages of the big
strike struggles the worker correspondents must
be ever at the front-pointing out the shortcom-
ings, strengthening the morale of the strikers,
hammering away at the building of rank and
file strike committees and rallying the workers
to support the strikes by sending relief
Experiences in building Unemployed Councils,
the shortcomings of the Councils, must be re-
Elected in the workers correspondence. Exposes
of factory and shop conditions, reports of wage
cuts exposes of refornist panaceas to relieve
the unemployed" reports of betrayals Of the A.
F. of L. and the socialist party-au will serve to
mobilize the workers for more decisive struggle
Every tyranny of the boss, every attack against
Negro and foreign born workers, big or SMALL
every scheme to entrap the workers to work
faster should be the subject Of letter to the
workers press. All the major campaigns of the
Communist Party and Trade Union Unity
League should be linked up with the day to day
shop work and reflected in the workers cores
pondence. Especially now during our election
campaigns must our worker correspondents be
on the alert exposing the bosses parties and
rallying the workers to collect signatures to nut
our candidates on the ballot and to vote Com
munist
More letters from workers to our press, more
news from the shops, mills and mines, more
group correspondence lore organization OF
workers correspondence groups-all this is need
ed to build our revolutionary publications into
mightier mass organs of working class struggle
Let us then intensity our efforts to build our
press by throwing more force into the develop
ment of broad mass workers correspondence
movement.