The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
BrenlertOn Communists Lead
Competition In Northwest
In Daily Worker Fund DriUe
Raised Quota Quickly
by Showing Paper to
New Workers
The Communist Party sections in

The Communist Party sections in
Seattle must arouse themselves
Their inactivity is chiefly respon-
sible for that districts low per-
centage in the 100000 drive. Seattle
still is below so per cent.
Though klamath Falls and va
kima, Washington, have gone over
the top-the former now having $50
per cent Of its quota-nearly every
other section is standing still, in
the face af the determination of the
Central Committee that all quotas
be filled by Dec. 1.
Five sections have not yet con-
tributed a penny. These are Bel
bingham, Portland, Olympia, Ev-
erett and Centralia.
Tacoma has acquired hardly 10
per cent. Spokane has contrib
uted only one-third of its quota.
Astoria, which is in Socialist COM
petition with the Seattle Section,
remains at $50, nothing having
been heard from 1t recently.
Is such poor work unremediable?
The Navy Yard Unit in Bremen
ton, in the same district, is shin
ing proof that it is not. While
other units in Seattle and through
out the country give excuses for not
being able to raise money for the
DAILY" this unit presents a picture
which should be a Bolshevik in
spiration to every unit in the coun-
try.
"Our unit would like to write you
of our activities in the 100000 drive,
and the lessons learned" it's or
ganizer states.
The drive for funds for our
Daily Worker was the best thing
that could have happened to our
unit.
Our quota was set by the district
at $40. In less than two weeks
time we collected SIT.
This Plan Worked
"The Navy Yard here is per-
meated with stool-pigeons and
Secret Service men from the In
telligence Division. In mapping
out methods to raise the fund, we
stressed the Importance of getting
it from newer workers rather
than from known sympathizers of
the Party-although we contacted
them, too. What mean by
newer workers is, workers our unit
had not contacted before. In do
ing this, each comrade used his
own initiative in picking the
worker, and in doing so brought
the face of the Party right to the
front. The conspiracy of silence
of the capitalist press out here in
the West in regard to the strug-
giles of the workers in the East,
and the struggles of the workers
in Spain, and the truth about the
Soviet Union, were great weapons
in cur hands to get the workers
to give to the fund.
Going over the top of our quota
does not mean we are through. We
intend to drive for more funds till
the $4,000 is raised-and also after
wards. The contacted workers are
continually being given more litera-
ture in the hope of getting them to
support our paper further by sub
scribing and eventually coming into
the Party"
There is little to add to this stir
ring picture.
1t is up to the other units in the
Seattle district to take example!
The sections must not wait
minute longer. Their Ieaderships
must bring every unit completely
into the drive. Territories must
be fully canvasSed, every worker
approached-parties held. Mem
bers of section committees must
make personal visits to units and
mass organizations to activize
them.
The Daily Worker calls on
Seattle to go full steam ahead to
finish its quota on time!
NOTE:-The Daily Worker
desires reports of activities of
all Districts, Sections, Units
and individuals in the $4,000
drive. These reports will be