The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15

I am ashamed. Our Daily Worker
agent didn't think the farmers would
buy the Daily" for ne only ordered
bundle Of 100 for 700 farmers, and
800 to 400 visitors every day. This
experience I got at this big meeting
will DO me all the good in the world.
Comratie Hathaway spoke and he
said that every farmer should order
one or more copies Of the Daily"
with the complete news Of the con-
ference. The result was I sold $i3
worth OF bundle orders to be sent
out, and two subs, one for six months
and one for one year. The farmers
went wild about the Daily Worker,
and during the five-day meeting, for
some reason we never got 8 Daily
until late in the afternoon. The
meeting started every morning at $50
am. and at s am, when I would
get there and spread my literature
cut, they would almost kill me for
not having the Daily Worker.
You can see I had good Job
handling just about 1000 people
daily. And this is the way I did 1t.
I lived about seven miles from the
place. The first night I went home,
but It took me SO long to get there
the next morning, so I stayed right
there and slept on the floor, at the
point where wanted to be. Then
when the farmers began to eat about
1880, had my light on the table, and
they would stand and look at the
literature and then they would begin
to buy. I never had anyone to am
nounce the literature from the plat
form. I sold the literature by letting
the farmers decide for themselves
what they wanted. When one would
look 8 long time I would suggest q
book to him. Nearly every time they
would buy, but If you talk too much
to them, they would walk away. They
liked to look through the literature
and pick out what they wanted,
Lessons On How to Handle Ltter.tmte
At Mass Greetings
will suggest how think we should
prepare for conferences and Large
mass meetings. First, we should have
committee that has some exper-
fence in handling large crowds. Next.
we should see that we should be given
good space In convenient place, and
not in q dark corner. We must take
our literature selling seriously. II we
don't put our literature where people
can see it, we will take 1t all back
to the book store when the meeting Is
over. This committee should arrange
! RI tho T0of11Y HnrIyaYs the
stand before the meeting starts. !
find that you always sell more papers
and literature before the meeting
starts. That doesn't mean that you
will clean up before the meeting
starts. You can sell a lot after the
meeting is over, but most OF 1t Is sold
before the meeting. Next, the COM
nittee should see that they have cop
les of all our literature on the stand
LID, T.UUL, unemployed liters-
ture, song books, youth literature, lit
erature for women, etc.
I have left many things out, for ex~
ample, I must have sold something
like 1000 1c and &c pamphlets. The
literature agent said, Maybe you can
sell $40 or SIS worth of literature"
I never had any experience handling
a big crowd, but I took along the
right stuff. The literature agent said.
you can't sell that" I said, ''Well,
we'll see, I'll have it in case any
body asks for it," I sold $62 worth
of literature, $24 worth OF Daily Work.
ers, as well as stationery, magazines
and buttons.
Comrades, I have given you all OF
my experience in handling a large
crowd, from which I myself have
learned great deal, because I want
the Party to benefit by this. I hope
/ you will cut out the good points and
print them, SO that the same things
will not happen in other districts. If
I could make a living, am willing
to spend the rest of my life trying to
sell the farmers our literature. I
know they want it. All we have to
do is to get it to them.