The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-29
Literature
ia the Masses
Reaching the Millions

THE tone of the recent Central Committee Plenum,
and the tasks which this Plenum set can be
summed up in the slogan, REACHING THE MIL
LIONS. Our press and our literature are the major
means toward this end.
The Literature Commission of the Central Com
mittee has laid out such large program for mass
pamphlet distribution as has not yet been seen in
this country. The main point in this program, how
ever, is developing apparatus and methods Of
work for getting these huge editions into the hands
of the American masses, REACHING THE MIL
LIONS with these pamphlets and influencing these
millions in the struggle against capitalism to strug-
gle for the establishment of Soviet Power in the
United States. The successful distribution Of al
most the entire edition of 100000 copies of Stains
Foundations of Lennism" in three months
period is an indication of ability to carry out
such task, set about it.
Program Mapped out
Concretely our program is as follows:
l. An edition of 100000 copies of why Conn
munism" by NJ ]. OIgin, to sell for cents copy.
This will appear within a month in revised edi-
tion, including up-to- date material trade
union work. the Labor Party question, etc.
2. An edition of 100000 copies of the Com
munist Manifesto for cents also to be published
within month.
g. series of low priced pamphlets the
various fascist and semi-fascist movements spring.
ing up all over the country under the leadership
of sue demagogues as Huey Long Father Cough
Iin Upton Sinclair, the Utopans, the Progressives
in wisconsin the Farmer-Labor Party in Minne-
sofa, etc.
A. A series of Iow-priced pamphlets dealing
with Soviet Power, each pamphlet to show con-
cretely what Soviet Power in the United States
will bring to particular strata of the American
toilers. There will be pamphlets in this series for
steel workers, miners, farmers, women, youth and
others
5. Following up on Stains Foundations OF
Lennsm," another welI-known book feminist
classic, will be published in edition of 100000
copies for 10 cents The title will be announced
later.
What to Do About 1t
The carrying out of this program is going to
tax the initiative che energy the imagination, the
Boshevik will of whole Party. We must meet
this test, we must prepare ourselves In the dis
tricts sections and units the following steps should
be taken:
l. Discuss this publishing program in the light
of the slogan REACHING THE MILLIONS.
@ Draw up your plan at to bring the lit
eratur to the workers in the shops factories, FARMS
trade unions and other mass organizations and
neighborhood where you are carrying on work. The
plan should include such points as (a) setting a
quota for your district section unit (b) estab-
fishing network of literature agents in each section,
unit and mass organization, and literature COM
nittees in districts sections, and larger organiza-
tons; (c) developing such methods of work whereby
every Party member and revolutionary worker
carries on literature distribution as basic part
of all his everyday work among the masses; Cd
seeing to it that literature is popularized and sold
at all indoor and street meetings and affairs
through speakers and comrades especially assigned
3. Send copies of your plan to your higher Party
Immittee and to the Literature Commission P. O.
Box 81, Sta, D. New York City
4 Challenge another unit, section or district "a
revolutionary competition in this campaign