The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05
PARTY LIFE
Some Points
About Our
Daily Worker
BY ROSE sPECTOR.

IN bne Sept. 1910 issues OF the
l Daily Worker Comrade Nathaniel
Buchwald gives us some glinpses of
the growth of "L'Humanite," Cen
trail organ of the Communist Party
in France. He writes: "If you
get into a subway car, in the morn
ing, when Paris is on its way to
work, you will find most passen-
gers reading the L'Humanite,' for
the workers will always find things
of interest in that paper"
How about our Daily Worker?
Are there things of interest for
workers in the Daily Worker? With
many shortcomings that are being
sincerely improved every day, the
Daily Worker is without dispute the
only daily newspaper that brings
the news of the daily struggles of
workers to light. 1t rallies thou
sands of workers for struggle for
immediate demands. Are not the
hunger marchers of vital interest to
the employed and unemployed
workers and their families? The
struggles of the miners, textile
workers, steel workers, veterans, the
boss terror, and lynchings of Ne
gro workers, are all of vital inter-
est to workers.
MEETINGS
NO DAILY"
However, very lew of us have
taken the responsibility and initia-
tive to place the Daily Worker into
the hands of workers. For example:
I have been present at about five
open air election campaign meet
ings conducted by Party Unit
without single Daily Worker in
sight. Not even a mention by the
speaker that there is such news
paper in existence. The mass Or
CARNATIONS also conducting meet
ings on the same corner followed
the same bad example of the Unit.
In order to improve this, thoro
check-up system must be built up
by the District so that the Sections
are not only considered as come
and get your bundle agent but
must be responsible for the func-
ton of the Daily Worker apparatus
in the Units.
Our concentration at factories
with the Daily Worker is also like
pulling teeth. Concentrating around
the factories with the Daily Worker
should not be done mechanically.
Merely standing near a factory gate
and giving out the Daily Worker
will not do. The comrade in
charge must talk to the workers,
get story on working conditions
within this particular shop or fac
tory, write up that story in simple
words, have it printed in the Daily
Worker and come back to the same
factory with that story, announcing
it to the workers. There will be no
need in coaxing the workers to buy
the Daily Worker for they will
surely be interested to read about
the conditions in their own shop.
Alongside with it they will read
other items of interest to workers
and in time they will earn to ap-
preciate the Daily Worker as we do.
It is not only the duty of Daily
Worker functionaries to be respon-
sible for Daily Worker activities,
especially when there are very few
of them. Neither can we, who
know the great Importance of the
existence of the Daily Worker, clear
ourselves of responsibility by CIV
ing only donation to the Daily
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sacrifice on our part. 1t is the duty
of every class conscious worker to
act as "Daily Worker Agent"
every day in the week. There are
many ways in which we can help
to spread the Daily Worker. For
instance, while travelling in the
Subways, we must be sure and read
the Daily Worker, holding it out
so that workers can see and read
the headlines; and when leaving
the car we must also leave the
Daily because there will always be
a worker or two who will want to
read it. On our way home we
should do the same thing. At rail-
rail stations, parks-every place
where workers are we must manage
to have the workers see and read
the Daily" The workers are eager
to reach such a working class paper
as the Daily Worker but they may
not come to our offices or homes
to get them. We must constantly
approach worker with the Daily
Worker.
BY bringing the Daily into the
ranks of broad masses of workers,
by building up large circulation
Of the Daily we will in the same
time build stronger financial and
moral support for the Daily.
There will be no need for such
prolonged daily appeals for funds
as we have at present. The Daily
is forced to give up its valuable
space for appeal articles instead of
using this space for articles of i'm
mediate and vital Importance to
workers.
BUILD THE DAILY"
Workers. Save the Daily Worker
from the danger of suspension it
is facing at the present time!
Help build powerful weapon in
the hands of the workers-build the
circulation of the Daily Workerl