The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
PARTY LIFE
A Guide for Issuing Shop
Papers

IN issuing the "Shop Paper Manual" the Cen
trail Committee of the Party is taking an i'm
portant step toward hquidating the chaotic meth
DDS of conducting shop paper work which OBJ
tain at the present time. 1t is pamphlet CIV
ing concrete instructions on practically every
phase of shop paper work, from the political
aspects, and organizatonal work. such as dis
tribution, etc., to the technical makeup.
The introduction, where the role of the shop
paper in the class struggle is explained, will be
an eye-opener to those comrades who think
shop paper work very casual and trivial COM
pared to other methods of work in the shop.
The political section takes up the question OF
politicalizing the shop workers, explaining the
Party campaigns to them and rallying them for
our political struggles. all linked up with the
shop conditions of the workers. The shop prob
lens and trade union phase of the shop paper
work is handled very concretely, giving examples
of how to activize the workers on the basis OF
shop grievances and immediate demands The
organizational section describes how nucleus
must function in issuing the paper, various meth
DDS of distribution both inside and outside the
shop, how to finance the paper, where to start
a shop paper, and how to reap the harvest Or
ganizationally of the educational work done by
the shop paper.
Then comes section Of miscellaneous details
taking up all the various vexatious problems with
which all comrades are confronted in the prac-
teal work of issuing shop papers. How to
choose name; under whose auspices the paper
shall be issued; the tone of language of the
paper; what slogans to use and how to place
them; the question of demands in the shop;
how to develop and how to utilize workers cor
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and number clever devices for getting our
point across to the workers in an interesting
way; how to play up the Daily Worker; combat
ting the contention that 'there are no issues in
the shop; when and how to issue special edi-
tons; light features such as jokes, poetry, etc.;
quotations from the Communist classics; how to
choose them and how to place them; how to
handle the mass organizations under Party gu-
dance without confusing the workers; the use
of authorizations; how to advertise meetings and
draw the shop workers to them; how to COM
bat company organs.
In the section on technical makeup the va
rious methods - printed, autographed and
mimeographed - are discussed with good and
bad points of each method analysed. Common
technical faults are pointed out. The use of
illustrations is described, and also how to avoid
too solid an appearance in the arrangement of
the paper. The masthead and other points of
technical makeup are mentioned.
The pamphlet must get into the hands of ev-
cry comrade connected even in the most indi-
rect way with shop paper activity. 1t is COM
pact 48-page pamphlet selling for ten cents. AS
a reference book for active comrades it is in
valuable and must be given the widest crcua-
ton among the comrades. Since it deals with
inner-Party work only, 1t is by its very nature
Of no particular interest to most non-Party
workers, but this means that 1T must be given
very intensive circulation among the Party
comrades.
Order from: Workers Library Publishers, SO
East Thirteenth Street. New York City. Ten
cents copy.