The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-29
Picture of the
Daily Worker
From Inside


ers of the Daily Worker the little known facts
relative to the publication of the paper.
Many workers are unaware of the compli-
Gated machinery necessary for the publication
of a daily newspaper. So take a look at our
Daily Worker this morning from the inside OF
the plant at SO East 18th st.
Start the day. Truckloads of paper are
rolled into the basement. In the Editorial room
typewriters are clicking phones ringing. There
are kilograms from all over the United States,
wherever the workers are fighting Workers
write in. Men and women write in, come in to
tell of their fights, their stubborn battles to or
ganize and lead the battles of the workers. The
capitalist enemy and their agents are being
watched, being fought Altogether they are
forging the weapon in the fight against hunger.
On the seventh floor is the composing room.
Makeup men are leaning over the forms. Type
settlers are sealing into lead thousand words
an hour. There are machinists, proofreaders,
galley boys. Men everywhere. Forms of type
roll across the room. Mats are pressed out,
rushed to stereotypers Suffering metal is
poured and the curved plates formed. They
are pushed deep into the presses and clamped.
The crew of pressmen weave the paper through
the great press. 1t starts in slow revolutions
and then, with all power on, twenty thousand
Daily Workers an hour flow out of the bottom
of the press. In armfuls 8 feet deep, they are
carried to the mailers. Here another row of
men rope them into bulky packages or stamp
on the addresses, with machinelike hands.
Then to the waiting trucks, then to the trains,
to carry the rallying cry of the fight against
the boss class, to defend the interests of the
workers to LOO cities and towns in the United
States.
pUT what does it cost to set this great machine
into motion? Take an average week on the
Daily Worker. Pay $500 for paper and print
ing. Pay another $1,70O for mailing, light, gas,
electricity, telephone and telegraph, trucking,
staff and office expenses. That makes $4,000.
That is the weekly cost of sending the coec-
tive propaganda, agitator and organizer into
the worldng-class sections of the United States
The average weekly income of the Daily Worker
is 81 ZOO, so the weekly loss is $1,000. Work
ers, think! The yearly loss is from $4,000 to
$4,000.
THE foul capitalist sheets pay the bulk of their
expenses from the thousands of dollars they
get in advertising from the rich capitalists
whose vile flunkies they are. Every worker
knows that the Daily Worker, central organ of
the Communist Party, leader of the fight on the
capitalist system, gets none of this income. The
$4,000 yearly loss of the Daily Worker is raised
by the American working class.
For eight years this organ of revolution
has existed only through the heroic sef-sacrifice
of the working class. Every day of that eight
years has been day of struggle for existence
Of the Daily
Time and again the Daily Worker, on
the verge of SUSPENSION has appealed for
funds, and time and again the acorking class
boo oroJ a,;tb 5bo fbn,c of doJInre
necessary to prevent the catastrophe of sus-
pension. Two and three thousand dollars
haze been received I'm q single day. When
the history of the fight for Soviet America
is finally told this mass self-sacriface for
the Daily Yorker aoiU be written in bright
letters.
A FEW weeks ago the Daily Worker again
found itself face to face with crisis. The
readers were informed and an appeal for
$4,000 made What has happened?
Workers, we must state sobery that so far
the drive has not succeeded. The management
committee has reached the end of it's resources.
The men who print the Daily have not been
paid. There is no more paper to print future
issues.
There is only one a0ay to save our
paper. Workers, zoe place the question
WiU you contribute noW or shall zoe sus-
apend? Answer IN. revolutionary manner,
( aoorthy of oar great cause. Organize col
lections among neighbors, shopmates. Win
your organization to airing donation.
Workers, the fate of the Daily Is IN
your hands.
MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE,
DAILY WORKER,
so East 18th Street. New York