The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
A Manual of Arms In
the Textile Struggle
7. U. U. /. Secretary Urges Wide Distribution
for New Pamphlet by Hathaway

south. On the basis of this ex-
perience I am happy to be able to
urge all our Party comrades in the
field to give this pamphlet the wild
est circulation.
Listening to the report of the New
England organizers, I was pleas
antly surprise that despite the still
great underestimation of the Daily
Worker much progress has been
made in bringing our Party's cen
trail organ to the strikers. All Of
the organizers, without exception,
had nothing but praise for the way
the Daily Worker is reacting to the
strike. Not only is the Daily"
printing the most important news
Of the strike, but above, ALL they
pointed out, the paper provides the
organizers every day with the
answers to numerous questions
raised in the strike, both political
and organizational. Even more i'm
portant was the report Of the or
ganizers as to the response of the
workers to the Daily Worker. Every
organizer, without exception,
pointed out that the workers were
most eager to get the Daily" One
comrade in New Bedford was able
20 sell l25 Saturday morning and
took another $50 copies for the same
afternoon. The same reports came
from all comrades who seriously
made efforts to bring the Daily
Worker to the strikers. Unfortu-
nately, however, still only a small
number of the Party members were
engaged in this work. One COM
rade reported, I'VE sold 300 copies
and could have sold 1000 more if
we had them"
AS I was listening to the reports
of the comrades I was regretting
that this valuable guidance that
the Daily Worker provided for our
organizers and the workers received
only the small circulation that it
did. 1t was therefore a welcome
surprise to me when I learned O.
the plan 10 publish the most i'm
portant editorials in the form of
pamphlet. l am sure that this will
be welcomed by the Party Organiza-
tons and that with a little effort
tens Of thousands Of copies can be
distributed in the next few days.
IN THIS pamphlet are to be found
1 the answers to the burning ques-
tons facing the strike today-hoW
to spread the strike, the election
of rank and file strike committees,
the popularization of the demands
of the strike, the demands of the
Negro textile workers, the eXplana-
ton of and the fight against arbi-
tration, the defeat of the red
scare" the mobilization of support
and solidarity for the strike, the
fight against terror, the organiza-
ton of relief, the bringing forward
of the Party program and recruit
ing into the Party, etc. 1t COM
bines both a manual for the or
ganizers, and an appeal to the striS-
ers. It answers the questions to
the textile workers as to the role
of the Party in the strike and at
the same time is an appeal to all
workers to support the textile work
ers. No organizer, no textile striker,
no worker should be deprived of the
privilege of reading and studying
this pamphlet. It depends upon
the Party organizations how many
workers will find it possible to Sc
cure a copy of this pamphlet.
There is only one shortcoming in
this pamphlet that I wish to point
out. In the rush to get it cut, bo~h
a subscription blank for the Daily
Worker and an application card to
the Party were omitted. The COM
rades in the field can overcome
this by either inserting, if possible,
such material in each pamphlet
sold, or at least approaching every
worker who buys the pamphlet on
the Daily Worker subscription and
joining the Communist Party.