The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28


of the workers upon the capitalist
class and see what powerful press
could do towards the realizing of
this demand. The enactment of
the Workers Unemployed Insurance
Bill III. R. 1899 will only come
through major struggles of the
working class. The struggle for
the passage of this Bill weakens
capitalism and strengthens the posi-
ton of the workers and will result
in drawing larger sections of the
workers into revolutionary struggle
against capitalism under the leader
ship of our Party. Only our Party
leads this struggle; only our Party
press expresses the struggle for this
demand.
The struggle for unemployed in
surance can be strengthened
thousandfold if we only increased
the Daily Worker 100 per cent. The
trouble is that the district leader
shipship of the Party has not yet
made clear to the Party member
ship, to the workers in the class
unions and unemployed councils
that to increase the circulation of
the Daily Worker means to fight for
the passage of the HR. 1898; means
to struggle for more wages, more
unemployed relief; that the building
of the circulation of the Daily
Worker Is a part of every struggle
of the workers, is part and parcel
of fighting for the line of the Party
in the ranks of the working class.
The building of the circulation of
the Daily Worker still to a large
extent is considered campaign by
itself only slightly related to the i'm
mediate struggles of the workers.
A short time ago, we received
a letter from steel worker in which
he said, Il got hold of a Daily
Worker for few months, I am con-
WINGED that my place is in the Com
munist Party. Please let me know
how can become member" The
other example was when our Polish
paper published in full the report
of the UMW.A. convention given
by Bo1us to his local, which was
adopted by the local and sent to
the press. This was taken up in
another local union by a subscriber
of our Polish paper and adopted
by this local union.
We very much underestimate the
role of our press. We hear many
comrades say, 81 simply could not
get along without the Daily Work
err" This is true, the Daily Worker
gives the line Of our Party. No Party
members can carry out their tasks
correctly or well without reading the
Daily Worker and studying, espe-
cially the editorials and leading
articles in the Daily. But what
about workers who are not members
of our Party? If we, who have our
units and Party committees to guide
us, cannot carry on our work prop
erly without the assistance of the
Daily Worker, how do we expect the
workers to be able to pierce the
demagogy of Roosevelt; to under
stand the splitting tactics of the
Greens, Thomases, Berrys, Lewis and
Company?
How do we expect the workers to
understand the class difference in
the capitalist and workers way out
of the crisis? How can we fight
for the line of our Party in the
ranks of the non-Party workers?
How can We carry through our main
task, namely to win the ma jority of
the working class for struggle
against capitalism as the only way
out of hunger, misery, unemploy-
ment and war, unless we spread
more Party literature, build the
class union press, and as a major
and first task, build the circulation
of the Daily Worker?
At this writing, the Pittsburgh
District has guaranteed 5000 copies
Of the May Day edition of the Daily
Worker. All indications show that
it will undoubtedly reach 10000 be-
fore the dead line has been reached.
This is very good, but what binders
us in the Pittsburgh district from
having a Daily circulation of 5000.
Is this impossible? Today, includ-
ing daily and Saturday subs and
bundle orders, we only circulate
little over 1000 in our district. This
could be very easily doubled in the
next few months. To do this, re-
quires the full mobilization of the
entire Party behind the Daily Work
er, prerequisite for the drawing in
of the workers, mass organizations
into supporting the Daily Worker as
their paper. A real beginning along
this plan Of work and a circulation
of 5000 Daily Workers in the Pitts
burgh district can very easily be-
come reality