The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30

the bill for the same-the b4N which
is in my name.
Financial Responsibility in Re-
lation TO the Daily"
At this time I received a state
ment from the D. w. telling me
that cur section is in debt to the
Daily" to the tune of $S7780. This,
of which I had heard nothing from
the section, completely disguised
me. I consider it a crime to order
Daily Workers with no thoughts of
how they are to be paid for. After
all, we are not capitalists, and the
D. W. is not capitalist paper, and
we can't treat it in this high-handed
capitalist manner.
When I couldn't get any action
out of the comrades on this serious
matter, I quit as D. w. agent. The
section organizer called me poor
Communist; I answered him that
I might be poor Communist, but
couldn't stand to see our best
weapon, the Daily Worker, run into
the ground because of our lack of
cooperation and collective work.
Another comrade took over tbs
work. When he got C.W.A. job, I
was again instructed by the bureau
to take up the work as no one else
would cooperate. This I did, but
on a different plan: We decided
not to try to sell the D. w. ind-
vidually, but to check up on units
and work collectively. This brought
some improvement: four out OF the
nine units respond and so Daaly
Workers are sold q day By these
four units.
But this is not enough; the other
five units must be awakened. So
far only 86 Daily Workers come
daily TO our section. Although we
have membership Of over 100 IN
our section, only ten Party mem
bers are D. w. subscribers. This Is
a bad reflection ON the low politi-
cal level Of our comrades. Who is
to blame for this situation? I think
I have shown one Of the basic
causes.
Another facet Of this situation Is
shown in the D. w. work IN South
st. Paul particularly. Our largest
unit, No. T. is in South st. Paul. No
member Of this unit Is a subscriber
to the Daily" and no one has ever
secured sub. From a financial
point of view this Is inexcusable,
since all Of these comrades are en-
ployed. These comrades are in
volved in building the T.U.UL. IN
the packing plants. They have a
large membership in the union and
about % Party members. They or
der a bundle Of ten Daily Workers
a day. Even with this small num-
Der, the "Dailies" are not all sold, as
bill of over So to the D. w. at
tests.
At the last section committee
meeting I severely criticized the
work Of these comrades. Another
old member a leading comrade in
South st. Paul, Immediately rose
to defend and, incidentally, to ex-
plain the situation. He said, 81 fully
appreciate the Importance of the
Daily but comrades in the unit
cannot imperil their jobs to attend
to the Daily and those unemployed
comrades who are black-listed al
ready can't have anything to do
with the work of selling Daily
Workers because they expect to get
their jobs back" This conrade has
very smooth way about him; he
likes to tell the newcomers what
they should do and what they
shouldn't do He gives them lot
Of talk, and they, who are new to
the movement, are quick to swallow
the 'red scare" attitude, and try 10
keep the Party in the background.
Comrades, let's get going on some
well-drawn plans and sane action.
New members are eager to cooper
ate; we can't let bureaucracy turn
them away.
L. IA
CT De ~ SanAsa.n