The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
Party Life
Working With Contacts
How to Use Drive
For Fighting Fund

For Fighting Fund
MOST of the comrades are
w familiar with the work of
canvassing with the Daily
Worker. In connection with
this, | would like to relate my
method of work in making
contacts while carrying out
my Daily Worker assignment.
When I see that a worker is In
terested, I ask him If he would like
me to come up to his home to dis
cuss the matter. 7 continue visit
ing that worker every week with
the Daily Worker.
However. I do not stop at that.
Even after the worker has sub
scribed for the Daily Worker. I
continue visiting the worker. bring
ing to that worker new literature:
ask him to donate money for one
purpose or another, and discuss
with him everyday problems.
One of my contacts is a woman.
a tobacco worker, who for one rea-
son or another is unable to Join the
Party. But since she subscribed to
the Daily Worker, she has been
taking in an extra CODY of the
Daily into the shop also literature.
which I bring to her. Through
this work she has the prospect now
OF getting three or four more sub
scrlbers for the Daily Worker. Dur
ing the last Daily Worker drive,
she collected money in the shop for
the Daily, I gave her my Red
Fighting Fund booklet, on which
she has collected seventy cents in
Two days, and promised to take the
booklet anytime I give it to her,
She now attends the various mass
demonstrations, and other affairs.
The main thing is to FOLLOW
UP CONTACTS AND BECOME
THEIR FRIENDS!
w. w. Unit Org. No.
Section S, Dist. No. 2
From my personal experience I
find that the Red Fighting Fund is
the easiest form of collecting money.
was out twice with a book. and
each time I sold $3.50 worth of
stamps. This week is my turn
again, so 1 will take a book and
am sure that I will sell $3.50
worth of Red Fighting Fund
stamps.
There are two ways of collecting
for the Red Fighting Fund,-the
right way and the wrong way, AS
to the wrong way, I can tell you
that one evening I dropped in to
nave cup of coffee at cafeteria,
and found there a comrade from
my unit, and a woman comrade
who I did not know. She took out
a Red Fighting Fund book and
naturally I asked her from which
Unit she came. She told me that
she is not Party member. A COM
rade from Unit No. 4, gave her a
book of stamps to sell. This COM
rade from Unit 4, knowing her as
close sympathizer, instead of
selling her five cent stamp, and
drawing her into the Party, took
the easiest and wrong way by let
ting her collect money to his credit.
I finished his job. After five min
ltes talk, she signed an application.
Now she is in my unit, attends the
unit meetings regularly, takes as
signments and Is a member in good
standing This was wrong way
to go out with the Red Fighting
Fund.
The right way, I believe is my
way of approach. l am trying to
reach portion of the 200, 1000 SYM
pathizers we have in New York by
offering the Red Fighting Fund
stamps to workers in the trade in
which I am working. I approach the
| 'NNNNAo IeAJ AAASy 1lC IOCu t
Fund is for the Communist Party;
give me as much as you can spare
today. You know that we are in the
firing line in every battle of the
working class, and you know that
we are fighting for your immediate
needs, for higher wages and better
working conditions now. We are also
fighting for full social security and
better life of the future in a class
less society" Not single worker
ever refused to buy a stamp. 1 am
sure that in times of emergency.
when it may be impossible to issue
stamps or receipts, I will be able to
approach the same workers for con-
tributions for the Communist Party
and these workers will readily
contribute.
j. S.
Financial Secretary, Sect. Is,
Dist. 2