The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
PARTY LIFE
Urges More Serious York
In Raising School Funds
Pittsburgh Comrades Do Not Take Campaign
For Training School and BOOkShOp Seriously

the district for guidance. e."
If the unemployed councils in Al
legheny had sold $4,000 copies of the
pamphlet, why Fight for Workers
Unemployment Insurance" or if
900 of the $4,000 members in Ale
gheny County read the Daily Work
er, or if there were preparation be-
ing made to see that at least half
of this membership was going to
read before August 1st What War
Means to the Workers" the leaders
in the unemployed council would
not think that it would be too much
to take up a workers school and
book store in this organization.
The other organizations are the
same, only none of them so strong
as the Unemployment Councils. Lit
erature is surely the barometer of
activity-that is literature, meaning
search for theory, guide for action.
Where there is no literature sold
the work is not being consolidated,
the campaigns are not being CO.
ordinated and the various responses
of the comrades to appeal for fur
! thering education shows up better
than any other yardstick the quality
of their work in their organizations.
If we have any literature today
that the workers are not ready for
we have not seen it. The further
along in struggle we go the simpler
our most advanced theory becomes
to understand, and when our COM
rades say; I'VE can't take it up now.
we have too many campaigns, the
workers are not ready" these COM
rades say-(and shouting would not
make it any clearer: I'VE are not
organizing properly, we do not know
how to set up committees, we have
no educational committee, we are
not teaching the workers the facts
about the red scare"
Our book store and school COM
mittee in District has to report
that in response to its call for help
the New York district has promised
500 worth of books. This is splen-
did evidence of solidarity and con-
seriousness of the Importance of con-
centration. The Secretariat of the
New York district writes I'VE will
help you however we can" Besides
this the New York Committee for
support Of the Pittsburghh School
has sent us 500, and various pub
locations have promised us subsidies
OF so many copies per month Of
their papers.
In closing we would like to re-
mind the Pittsburgh comrades who
think that they can't take another
campaign before the workers-the
comrades who want to save the
workers from their vanguard--we
want to recall for these comrades,
our Comrade Fred Bell, who on ac-
count of not having the money to
ride was walking home from meet
ing. frcm one state to another and
he gave all he had to the movement,
his life. Gle was hit by a train
While walking the tracks, He knew
the movement in practice, he had
walked all that distance for theory
for guidance. What stiff -necked ar
rogance, what SecJarianism that all
lows us to say we have too many
campaigns. When, as the vanguard,
we are properly oriented to cur
central slogan, we are not worried
about our campaignings, as matter
of fact we organize new ones on
local scale and go forward with all
possible speed, not blindly but ar
nored with theory, leading an or
gsnized and conscious proletariat to
our final goal LII.