The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Party Life
New Readers of Daily
Should Be Urged
to Join C. P.

! Oeeu gained lot Une Daily Worker
in the recent period. While many
of these do not yet receive the
paper regularly, a large number are
steady readers won through house
toulouse and factory sale and dis
tribution. Regular routes have been
established in many cities and Sec
tionS. The experience of comrades
in their houSe-to-houSe convaSs-
ing shows an increasing interest in
the Daily Worker, which reflects
the growing support for the Com
munist Party.
1t must be stated, however, that
the comrades who participate in
the systematic sale and distribution
of the Daily Worker-and their
number steadily grows-do not yet
realize the role our paper can play
as an organizer and builder for
the Party. Nor do the leading COM
mitteeS in districts, sections, and
units, connect sufficiently the ac-
tivities of these comrades with the
basic problems involved in re-
cruiting. This can and must be
corrected.
In the many cities and sections,
in which routes have been built
up, comrades should try to develop
individual contact with the work.
ers to whom they sell the Daily
Worker. Very often different COM
rades deliver the paper from day
to day, so that it becomes difficult
to establish personal ties with these
readers. So far as it is possible,
this should be changed, and the
same comrades should make the
deliveries at least for a definite
period. Our Party members too
often act merely as sales agents for
the paper. But to carry out their
task correctly, they should inter
est themselves in the life and prob
lens Of the workers whom they are
so effectively reaching, discuss with
them their reaction to the Daily
Worker, and endeavor to interest
them in the Party. They must take
time to find out what questions are
puzzling the new readers, to ex-
plain to them the policies of the
Party on the basis of their own
problems and experiences.
Our Party members must realize
that the readers of the Daily
Worker are potential members of
our Party. When the Daily Work
er is on the order of business at
unit meetings, the discussion should
consider ways and means of bring
ing Daily Worker readers closer to
the Party, recruiting the best of
them into our ranks.
For these very workers are pre-
cisely among those whom we must
reach. The Daily Worker is our
most effective propaganda and agi-
tator capable of reaching broad
masses of workers daily with our
policies on all questions of vital in
terest to them. Its readers have had
an opportunity to become acquainted
with our program, to understand our
aims. They have seen, in editorials
and special articles, repeated ap-
peals to join our Party have perhaps
thought about joining. Their minds
are open to further persuasion. Some
are perhaps waiting to be asked to
come into our ranks.
In the present recruiting drive,
which ends Nov. 7, great emphasis is
laid on the individual responsibility
OF each Party member in recruiting
through personal contact and in
fluence. AS a basis for recruiting
we should seriously consider in each
unit and section, the regular read
ers Of the Daily Worker-not alone
subscribers, but those to whom the
paper is sold regularly in the shops,
unions, mass organizations generally,
in the neighborhoods. We should
make efforts to reach them with our
Party appeal. Furthermore, the let
ter on recruiting addressed by the
Central Committee to each Party
member asks each one to choose five
prospects for the Party from among
shop-mates, fellow-trade unionists
etc.
During the period Of the recruit
ing drive, several steps can be taken
to utilize the Daily Worker more eff
fectively in gaining new members.
lin the unit discussions on the
recruiting drive, where each Party
member brings forward his proposed
contacts, emphasis shall be placed
on approaching Daily Worker read
ers, especially by those comrades al
ready known to them.
2-From among the list of regu-
lar Daily Worker readers in the ter
ritory or shop of each unit, the best
and most favorable prospects shall
be chosen and distributed among
comrades for personal contact dur
ing the next month.
BIN the unit territory where
Daily Worker routes have been es-
tablished the unit can take the ini-
tiative in calling these readers to-
gether, to discuss with them our ap-
peal to join the Party.
4-On a section or city scale such
meetings of Daily Worker readers
can be called, where leading COM
rade of the District speaks. These
meet ngs should be called not alone
by letter, but by personal invitation
through the Daily Worker builders
who distribute the paper, as well as
other Party members.
EVERY comrade who regularly
delivers the Daily Worker to the
homes of new readers should have
constantly in mind the possibilities
of recruiting them into the Party
and should therefore take time to
hold some discussion with these
workers, to find out which are the
most favorable prospects, and try to
bring them to the open unit meet
ings.
Tn the Daily Workers sold at
factory gates or delivered to the
homes of workers, there should be
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