The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12

NEW YORK. - Not bourgeois
methods of ballyhoo," declared Clar-
ence Hathaway, editor of the Daily
Worker" ''but serious organized eff
fort on the part of workers organiza-
tons, will make possible the raising
of the $4,000 urgent to maintain the
new six-page Daily Worker
Hathaway and Charles Krumbein,
district organizer Of District No. of
the Communist Party, were the prin-
cipal speakers at a mass conference
of workers organizations held Sun
day night in Irving Plaza Hall, 18th
st. and Irving Pl., called to initiate
the drive in New York Robert Frank
lin, of the New York District Daily
Worker" opened the conference.
Richard Fallops, Negro delegate
from the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, was elected chair
man, and Renelda Gurnbs, of the
DAILY" Volunteers, and also Negro
worker, was elected secretary.
305 Delegates
With 305 delegates from 200 Or
CARNATIONS representing $4,000 work.
ers in attendance, the conference
/ took up in a serious manner the
methods to be followed in making
possible an enlargement and a con-
slant improvement of the Daily
Worker" Responding to the plea for
aid made by Krumbein at the con-
clusion of his speech, TIE delegates,
on behalf of their organizations. con-
tributed $223.93 in cash and pledged
more than $780, At the same time the
City Committee of the International
Workers Order pledged to raise
$4,000 as part of the entire New
York quota which is $4,000.
The delegates unanimously
adopted the New York City 'Plan
of Action" for the "DaiIy Worker
financial drive which gives de-
tailed directions to Party units,
trade unions and fraternal organ
iZatiOns.
The financial drive, which began
September 8, is to continue until
November 8.
Stirred to action by the frank,
straightforward analysis of the fnan-
cial situation of the Daily made by
| its editor, Clarence Hathaway, the
delegates, in the discussion which
followed, revealed spirit of enthu-
siaSm and determination rarely seen
at previous conferences Of this kind.
Accompanied by the announcement
of contributions, delegates, on behalf
of their organizations, hurled chal-
lenges to other organizations in a
spirit of socialist competition.
Seeks Readers Guidance
There has been general acknowl-
edgement of the improvement in the
new Daily" Hathaway said. "But
the task now is to secure the exist
ence of the paper, constantly i'm
proving it, and transform it from
the kind of paper whose appeal was
formerly limited to the members of
the Communist Party and it's close
sympathizerS, to a mass organ of the
working class"
To achieve this aim, Hathaway
said, more active participation of the
readers in guiding the DAILY" is i'm
| perative. The readers, and particu-
larly such bodies as the present con-
ference, must assume responsibility
for adopting a critical, constructive
attitude toward the paper. Letters of
criticism" the editor continued, will
serve to keep the staff of the paper
in much closer contact with the prac-
teal problems of it's readers"
Against "Hysterical" Campaigns
After characterizing previous flnan-
cial drives of the Daily Worker as
"hysterical" Hathaway said that the
present situation makes the continu-
alton of drives of such a character
extremely inadvisable. With it's cir
culation growing, he said there must
be no assumption at any time that
the paper is in danger of imminent
suspension but, on the contrary,
there must be a frank realization
that with its limited finances as a
fighting, working-cla organ, the
$4,000 fund must be raised in order
to keep it going, at the same time
bringing about constant improve
ment.
Side by side with this job, Hatha-
way pointed out, must be determi-
nation to increase the circulation of
the paper, In this connection he
warned Of the opportunist tendencies
in some of the Red unions" to sup
press the "Daily Worker" ostensibly
for the purpose of avoiding the posi-
bility of the bosses and their agents
putting over red scare" on the
workers. Hathaway cited as par
ticularly fragrant example the ac-
ton Of comrades in the Shoe and
Leather Workers Industrial Union,
who removed COPIES of the Daily
Worker" from the wall of union