The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-23
PARTY LIFE
Conducted by the Organization Department of
the Central Committee, Communist Party U.S.A
Issue Party Bulletins
By BURCK


A sYMPATHIzER of Los Angeles writes us
the following letter in which he offers some
constructive criticism of the Party work in the
Los Angeles section:
There are several reasons why the Party has
not made more progress here. Many comrades
put the blame on the objective conditions. but
the fact that the objective conditions are not
made known to those workers who do not feel
them directly has good deal more to do with
it than lack of those conditions. The white
terror for instance, is very severe here, but the
working class does not seem to realize it,
1.-THE Daily Worker should be brought to as
many workers as possible but the Daily is not
all sufficient. 1t cannot give us the news hot
off the press. The news comes to lis at least
four days late. BY that time it is no longer
news; 1t is old. The workers here have already
received the capitalist impression from the capt.
talist press and, for the most part are not in
terested in the proletarian version coming in so
late. How can we remedy this situation? We
should put out a Los Angeles Bulletin
1--WE pass out thousands of leaflets before
demonstration, but we leave it to the capitalist
papers to give the workers the impression of
the demonstration it happened according to
the capitalistic viewpoint Why not mobilize the
Party and sympathizers why not have the APP
paratus ready to put out an edition of thousands
of copies of a Los Angeles Bulletin as soon as
the demonstration is over? Let our comrades
shout the news, Workers slugged by cops in
unemployed parade" as compared with the capt.
talist Reds slugged by cops" Let the bulletin
be sold in front of factory gates that very after
noon and in the streets the same evening. The
bulletin can be either printed or miIneographed
and sold at cent copy It could also be
put out every week as well as in special editions
"Of course bulletin would not be nliracu-
lous party builder but 1t sure. would help a
good deal. i,
"In mentioning the news items that should
have been put out here in the last few days
we could include the January 10th demonstra-
ton, yesterdays parade, and war mopgering
editorial in Hearst's Herald. The latter was an
article to persuade the worker that war is better
than peace, that the worker was fed in war and
went hungry in peace, and therefore should well
come war as a solution of the unemployment
problem. Such editorials are very misleading
as they tell half truth and should be exposed
as they appear in the enemy press"
Comment:
The workers in Los Angeles and California
generally are in movement, as in all cities and
states of the country, and certainly big part
of them realize the increase of the white terror.
and are ready to fight, as proven by the last
unemployed demonstration.
1t is true that the capitalist papers still sue
coed in mpressing their viewpoint on large
masses; but on the other hand 1t Is also true
that the masses understand more and more all
the maneuvers Of the capitalist press and are
coming to the class point of view. This does not
mean that we shall wait for the masses of them
selves to come 100 per cent to our conclusions
But it is through our press leaflets, meetings
demonstrations, ETC.. that we reach a part of
the working class and through these, other parts
Los Angeles for example, has only BIG readers
of the Daily Worker, but how many more are
influenced by us, know how to interpret all the
lies and maneuvers of the capitalist press to
confuse the workers. Certainly thousands
In the line of increasing our influence. to
combat the capitalist press, Immediately give to
the masses the correct news, from class point
of view, especially in Of important political
issues demonstrations, ETC.. as Comrade r.
pointed outr-because Of the delay of the Daily
Worker in reaching California--the idea to
give out special bulletins is correct and certainly
this proposal viii be considered seriously by the
California district not only concerning the needs
Of Los Angeles. but Of the whole state.