The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21

Some Experiences Of Section 10, Dist.
Two, in the Demonstration in
Support of the Austrian
Revolution
Section 10, Oong Island) is a very
new and comparatively small section.
Over half of the membership has
been recruited into the Party since
the Open Letter-the entire Section
Committee, with but one exception,
has been in the Party less than a
year. There are only three shops
five street units and one concentra-
ton unit (railroad in the Section,
and each unit is scattered over a
very wide area. Despite these facts,
the energetic mobilization, preparation
and activities for the Austrian dem
cnstration held Wednesday in New
York, can serve as a splendid exam
pie for our entire Party.
AS soon as directives were received
from the District, every unit was i'm
mediately notified to speed up the
regular work of the unit and be pre-
pared to act when representatives of
the Section Committees arrived at
the meeting. A car at the service Of
the Section, two members of the Sec
ton committee visited each unit, de-
livered the Daily Workers and in
structionS, and pointed out the sig
nificance and Importance of the
situation.
Immediately the entire membership
was galvanized into action. BY ten
o'clock in the evening every comrade
was on the streets, in front of shops
where workers were working nights,
and in the neighborhoods, from store
to store and house to house, crying
EXTRA" selling ana distributing
the DAILY WORKER. Complaints
came from the Units, that the Sec
lion Committee had underestimated
their fervor and enthusiasm. We had
only ordered one thousand copies of
the DAILY. Scat - midnight, we
had to rush down to the Daily Office
and get three hundred copies more.
which were Immediately swallowed
up.
There wasn't much sleep for the
comrades that night. Early in the
morning workers going to work,
were greeted by our comrades SELL
ing the Daily Worker at every i'm
portant subway station, before the
shops, and at the railroad concen-
tration.
That practically every unemployed
comrade was on the job, goes without
saying. But 1t must also be recorded
that a great number of comrades still
employed, realizing the Importance
Of the situation and by the work to
be done, stayed away from their jobs
and gave the day over to the Party.
At IL noon on Wednesday. a group
Of comrades were impatiently waiting
for the special extra edition Of the
Daily. In one case. com-ade had
BROUGHT down a sympathizer ITO help
sell Dailies."
Many interesting experiences were
related by the comrades who reported
back on their work. We will merely
mention few Of the more outstand-
ing ones:
A cOmrade selling Dailies near
the elevated tracks saw a large
Group of track workers overhead
She called one of them He wanted
a paper. Then he wanted more.
He lowered rope down TO her;
she tied on a bundle of Is copies
of the Daily which were hoisted up
to the waiting workers. The worker
distributed the bundle of the Daily
to his fellow workers, who eagerly
grabbed each copy.
Comrade c. selling Dailies at the
Railroad yards, met a Negro worker
who paid dime for his Daily. The
Negro worker asked Comrade G.
whether he was Party member, and
when he heard that he was, he said.
II am also a member. I belong to
the Party in N. Comrade c. told
him how he had sold a Daily some
three weeks ago to another Nero
railroad worker from that same city,
who had wanted more in "ormation
about the Party. and had eiven him
his name and address. "Oh," said