The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-28
Party Life
Literature Work
Of l. w. o. Criticized
Language Is Barrier

Language Is Barrier
IN OUR challenge to the New
L York District to sell more
literature per member by Aug.
l, we are making an earnest
attempt to set up functioning
literature departments in all
mass organizations.
The Two. agreed to set up a
city central literature committee,
with agents in all branches. The
city central agreed to undertake to
sell one thousand copies of Amter's
Why the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill" during the month
Of January.
On Sunday, Jan. 10, the TWO.
was scheduled to have a concert
and ball. The district literature de-
partment, learning that the TWO.
had not yet set up it's literature
apparatus, agreed to take care of
the literature work at this affair.
A special drive was to be made
from the platform with organized
literature sales on the floor, concen-
trating on Amter's pamphlet and
Who Wants War" the two for five
cents.
On The afternoon of the ball.
when the district secretary of the
Two. was making out the program
for the afternoon and evening, and
when we reminded him to place
the literature talk and sale on the
agenda, he answered There won't
be any time for it," He insisted that
no room could be found for an or
ganized literature sale from the
platform, The program was about
an hour late in getting under way.
It seemed as though something had
to be left out. To the district sec
rotary of the TWO, a leading Party
member, literature was apparently
Of minor Importance.
An attitude of this nature indi-
Gates dangerous underestimation
of the political Importance of liter
allure distribution. The Central
Committee of our Party is waging
an energetic campaign to instill lit
erature consciousness into every
Party comrade from the Oldest
member to the newest recruit. The
Eighth National Convention of our
Party adopted resolution in which
it says that There must be a wider
issuance and circulation of litera-
ture on current political problems
and propaganda dealing with the
revolutionary way out of the crisis.
The mass sale of Communist lit
erature must be the normal part of
the day-to-day activities Of every
Communist Party member" CThe
Way Out-psge So
The workers are hungering to find
the way out of the crisis; they are
turning to the Communist Party
for the answer; yet the Party com
rade who is the secretary of the
Cleveland International Workers
Order, with over 500 people seated,
can't find time on the program for
literature.
In our literature competition with
New York we are bent on breaking
through all resistance.
At time when FasciSm is rapidly
approaching, when we find increas-
ing discrimination against Negro
and Latin-Americans in the distri-
button of relief in Harlem, more in
tensive anti-Red drives. etc.
The Negroes and Latin Americans
should solidify their ranks against
the common enemy, the white rul-
ing class. We should not let the
difference of language be barrier.
The enemy is ever alert finding loop
holes to send his poisonous propa-
ganda into our ranks in respect to
the difference in color, texture of
hair, etc.
In the Lower Harlem Unemployed
Council (West) there is a grave sit
uation. the language question, which
will only be remedied by the reor-
ganization of strong Party frac-
ton within this mass organization
to guide the raw recruits of Spanish
and Negro comrades to the path of
Lenin and Stain.
This is no time, comrades, for a
split in the ranks of the working
class organizations. We truly hope
that the section will give more at
tention to the situation.