The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-16
new YORK WORKERS SET
UP PERMANENT BODY TO
BUILD DAILY WORKER -
40 Delegates From 1873 Organizations Eelect
Broad City Committee to Help Circulation
Work Out Plans to Make Paper Real Organizer
By Linking Closely With Workers Groups

NEW YORK-410 delegates re-
presenting 1913 local workers organ
izations attended the Conference to
build the Daily Worker at Stuyves-
ant Casino. 142 2nd Avenue. Sunday.
The conference was presided over by
leo Hofbeusr and Craig was elected
as Secretary.
VIM. w. Weinstone spoke, repre-
senting the editorial board Of the
Daily Worker. He pointed cut that
the elections showed the deep dis
content. existing among the workers,
but that this discomfort has not yet
bsen sufficiently clarified 1t is ne
cessary to widen our agitation i'm
mediately in order to turn this dis
content into revolutionary channels.
The situation is becoming more ag-
gravated from day to day, he said
because the stability OF capitalism
has come to an end and we are pass
ing over to a period of wars and
revolution. We need an organ, a
DAILY Worker" that will be able to
lead the masses build 10 a United
Front Of the workers in order to
carry through the great task Of fight
ing against the incres sing attacks
en- the workers. The building Of a
mass Daily Worker is one of the sur
est means of expanding the strength
of the revolutionary movement and
enabling the workinPclass to fulfill
their role of grave digger Of cap
italism.
Lack Sustained Campaigns
Weinstone pointed cot that GER
tein improvements have occurred in
the Daily Worker hnt many weak
ressss still prevent it from being a
mass organizer. He mentioned the
l9cls Of sustained leadership of eco
ncrn'c fi0hts and all around poloil-
jz7 ION Of the workers economically
and POLITICALLY for these fights; in
sufieient explanation Of develop
r'ents IN the Soviet Union both as
to sdvarce- End 6if7ct1ties: Tv~''--
teratized fight against imperisrst
w-r ard leck Cf ? r0rcent roted FIRE
s~ainst American Imperialism. ex-
p'shning how war is being prepa red
90d how p9cifst poison hampers the
fi~i7s of the workers AGAINST this
mems 90: Unsustajned FIGHT TO build
re--c''--i onar-r trade unions growing
80 inner Drooie'-41: the systematic
----"a Of c~'1S't'c''~ in factories
and helping to organize the union
r--' ''-e -7~--v in the factories. UNI
t'-uely rec ction to new problems
the DEVELOPMENT Of revolutionary
currents among the inteIectuals, lack
Of popular LANGUAGE and simple pre-
sen ation of Communist ideas; the
weakness of the paper as builder Of
mass organizations and the Par
TT. etc.
Must Link with Mass Organization
Weinstone emphasized that these
can be overcome not only by i'm
provements within the editorial staff
but by the closest linking up Of tht
paper with the masses and their or
ganizations. He called for the es-
tablishrnent of an organizations
base for the paper and the syste-
matte circulation Of the paper, as in
Vulnerable examples can be giver
where with little effort the paper has
been spread to new centers and new
permanent readers acquired.
Weinstone condemned the vrons
tendencies which prevented the cir.
culation Of the paper, such as fol
instance the idea that where paper:
Of mass organizations exist, it is i'm.
possible to spread the Daily Worker
He stated that the Daily was tht
organizer not only of the Commun-
list Party but was also the leader II
the fight Of all revolutionary worker;
and their organizations.
Fer Regular Conferences
Field. Daily Worker Representative
IN New York. told of the work O.
the Provisional Committee which
led to this conference. and the diff
ficulties in building circulation be-
cause of the lack Of organized link
and called for the establishment o
(a) regular conferences to meet one
every three months. (b) formatio,
Of a City Committee of fifty which
would build the paper, Co establish
nent Of regular sustaining fund, Cd
formation of committees in work