The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30

MIRA AND ROOSEVELT ARE
THEIR SALVATION!
THE DAILY WORKER is our main
organ in liquidating the lies and
illusions of the workers. 1t Is the
only organ showing the workers the
way out of the crisis.
WITHOUT THE DAILY WORKER
WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO
CARRY ON THIS FIGHT.
But what do we find in OhioP We
find total circulation of the Daily
Worker of about LOO in the whole
district This is disgrace, crime
against the working class. 1t means
serious neglect Of one of our most
important revolutionary tasks-the
spreading of the circulation of the
Daily Worker.
This is not the worst. Take
Youngstown, the heart OF the steel
section of the district, concentra-
ton section, 1t receives a bundle or
der OF TEN COPIES! Akron, the
home Of the rubber industry, re-
ceives a total of 63 copies. The Gin
cinnati section, the gateway to the
South, receives 200 copies. Toledo,
"a copies! Cleveland, the sixth city
in the country, city of steel, metal,
euto and similar industries, with a
working population of 100000, has
total circulation of 56S copies!
Is this not a disgrace? Does this
not show the most shameful neglect
of building the revolutionary press,
which is basic for building the revo-
| lutionary Party and the revolution
Ea1y organizations?
| For more than three months, the
circulation drive of the Daily Worker
has been in progress. Only on Aug.
"a did the District Buro take up the
drive. During my tour, I did not
| discover that anywhere plans had
been made to put the Daily Worker
on, its feet in the District, to get the
Daily Worker into the hands of the
| workers. Only in Toledo did find
| that Negro comrade has started
| carrier route in the Negro section,
beginning with copies, which
jumped to 20, then 30 and at the
latest report Aug. III jumped to
| so. If single comrade can do this,
why cannot the rest of the Party do
| likewise?
But this is not all Hardly at one
mass meeting at which / spoke was
a Daily Worker anywhere to be seen.
1t is pretty hard to appeal to the
| workers to read and subscribe for
| the Daily Worker and not have a
single copy even to show them. This
is the situation in Ohio.
FINALLY, many comrades of the
Party and Y. c. L. do not read
the Daily Worker. How can the
Party and Y. c. L. comrades speak
about the Party line, the work of the
Party-how can they successfully ex-
pose the MIRA and the preparations
for war, if they do not read the Daily
Worker? Many comrades are not in
a financial situation to be able to sub
scribe for the Daily Worker. The Sec
tons and units must take UP this
fundamental question, otherwise
great part Of the education of the
Party members will continue to be
neglected.
Ion the basis of the District Buro
decisions, the sections and units must
Immediately make their plans for the
Daily Worker. Irrespective Of whether
the drive is over or not-the Daily
Worker must become the property
of the workers of Ohio. This Is an
outstanding point in the Open Let
ter. To fail to fulfil this point
Inevitably means inability to meet
the other demands Of the Open Let
ter.
Comrades of the Ohio District:
Once Ohio was well in the front in
the revolutionary movement-put it
again into the front by at least no
longer neglecting the Daily Worker.
Systematic work for the Daily
Worker Is basic for pushing forward
| the whole Party work!