The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
Pittsburgh District
Organizer Discusses
Role ofhe Red Press
Calls for Doubling of Daily Worker Circulation
in Vast Mine and Coal Field Areas
BY JACK TOMBSTONE


EVERY new failure of the Roose-
4 vslt New Deal to satisfy the
needs Of the workers generates new
iemagogy. The purpose of this is
% attempt to further disintegrate
The rising struggles of the workers.
The general propaganda that IN
employment is being overcome, that
a general increase in wages is tax
ing place to Offset higher prices, has
It's temporary quieting effects on the
rising struggles of the workers, to
the extent that the workers are I'M
able to pierce quickly the demagogy
of returning prosperity. This dema-
gogy is the central theme of every
capitalist paper and is carried di-
rectly into the ranks of the work
ers by the Socialist and A. F. of L.
bureaucracy. The workers do not
fully understand that every conces-
sion they win from the New Deal
program of starvation, such as the
Z hour and SIS day for the miners,
the 10 per cent increase in wages
for the steel workers, ETC., has been
won by the struggles of the work
ers. These concessions represent
only drop in the bucket to what
the workers could have wrung from
the New Deal" if the rank and
file had been strong enough to throw
overheard Green, Thomas, Lewis,
Leonard and company and estab-
lished their own fighting leadership.
Fascist Forms Increase
One of our major weaknesses in
fighting this capitalist demagogy is
an underestimation of the power of
the press; of the power of mass agi-
bation. The capitalist class are no
longer able to grant the many de-
mands now being made by almost
every section of the working class
without further weakening the very
basis of capitalism. Many struggles
Of the workers for the smallest of
economic demands turns into
major class battle in which all the
forces of the state are openly turned
against the workers.
The fright of the workers to
choose their own representative and
join an organization of their own
choosing is the demagogic front be-
hind which company unions are
strengthened. The forerunners of
fascist unions are built. The capt.
talist agents, Green, Berry, Lewis,
ETC., behind this demagogy are
forced upon the most militant of
he workers, who are more and more
consciously beginning to struggle
against the New Deal.
Open fascist terror is increasingly
directed against the class unions,
the Communist Party, and class
conscious workers in the A. F. of L.
unions who are fighting for a class
struggle program in opposition to
the class collaboration betrayals of
Green and company. Lynch terror
against the Negroes increases, as
does National chauvinist propa-
ganda.
Role Of the Workers Press
president ROOSEVELT and
4 the top group of American I'm
perialists understand thoroughly the
changes that are taking place in the
ranks of the working class, and
poor farmers. Large sections Of the
masses are asking themselves the
question, Communism or Capitalism.
Therefore every method is being
thought out and put into practice
that will block the growing class
struggle unity of the working class
and their allies, the poor farmers,
professionals, etc.
Against this broad organized
propaganda carried forward by
thousands of daily capitalist and
reformiSt papers, etc, stands only
our Party press and Party litera-
ture and the class union press. The
working class press is very power
full weapon that has strengthened
the struggles of the American work
ing class and through which many
sledge hammer blows have been
delivered against capitalism. But
have we really seriously taken up
the building of our Party press, the
Daily Worker, the Party shop paper,
Party neighborhood papers, the
language papers, the class union
papers, and the literature of the
Party? In the Pittsburgh district,
can say that we have not yet
been able to mobilize the entire
Party for this important task. When
one considers that the circulation
of the Daily Worker nationally, is
less than 10000 then it can be said
that our Party as a whole is not
vet carrying out in practice in this
field, the line and decisions of the
Open Letter.