The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 17

Sunday, January 13, 1924! This date will be remembered in the history of the American labor movement as a red letter day. For on this day there comes into being the first Com- munist daily newspaper printed in the English language,—The Daily Worker. Last August, 1923 the Workers Party of America announced the opening of a drive to raise. $100,000 to establish an English-language daily. This. announcement was re- ceived with some scepticism by old and experienced newspaper men who said that simply could not be done. But the 20,000 members of the Work- ers Party went quietly to work. Com- mittees were organized in sixty cities thruout the country. The militant rank and file pledged themselves to buy at least one $5 share of preferred stock each. The Workers Party maintains a press in various lan- guages spoken by the working class of America, with a circulation of over one hundred thousand copies. Recog- nizing the need of one English-lan- guage daily, our people went to work with a will and inspired by their example drew into the campaign thousands of militant workers and exploited farmers who out of their little have given much. Of the $100,000 fund $90,000 has now been raised, and the balance is coming in with eyery mail. Thus in the short space of four months a lit- tle band of determined fighters in the proletarian cause brought into exist- ence a powerful machine with which to aid the working class to fight its battles against its ancient enemy. The Daily Worker owes its origin to the devotion and sacrifice of thou- sands of silent and unknown heroes of the working class of America. It is born out the loins of the exploited and oppressed workérs and farmers of this country. It is bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh. It comes to marshall the hosts of labor in the social revolution which shall create a New, America—the Ameri- can Republic of Workers and Farm- ers. “I am on my death-bed,” writes one dfsabled soldier in the industrial war, “but I am sending you $10, which is all I possess, to help you to start your daily paper to continue the battle for economic and political freedom in which I have given my life.” “T want to subscribe for 12 shares of stock in the Daily Worker for my children and nephews and nieces,” said one office worker who desired her name to be kept secret for fear of losing her job, “because I want them to own a share in the organ of labor’s emancipation.” “Here are twenty iron boys for The Daily Worker Fund collected by me from the slavés in the steel mills of Youngstown, Ohio. May The Daily Worker soon appear and expose the hellish conditions under which we work and die.” ‘ From the coal fields of Ilinois and Pennsylvania came back the lists tattered and smooched with the grime of the. toilers, filled with the record of the dollars and dimes of the coal diggers, ang tarrying in broken Eng- lish the message of the solidarity of the miners and their pledge to sup- port the Daily Worker and to carry on the fight for a government of the workers and farmers of America. From the textile mills of New Eng- land; from the clothing workers of New York; from the sailors in port | th and at sea; from the railroad shops; from mill, factory, mine, farm and field came the response of the work- ers to establish. their paper—The Daily Worker. Where others have failed we will succeed; for The Daily Worker grows The Next Crisis in Germany By LUDWIG LORE, Editor, N. Y. Volkszeitung. Motto:—Society has but one alternative: Either forward into Socialism, or reaction into bar- barism.—F rederick Engels. To that part of the international labor movement that took its revo- lutionary ideals seriously Germany has been a series of heart-rending disappointments, It is the great tragedy of the modern working class movement that its German leaders, after an era of peaceful adjustment to the capitalist world, broke under the strain and were carried along in The German Proletariat By SIMON FELSHIN. We will strike at your audacity. We will know you by your spiked helmets, Your gold braid will not save you. We will drag you from your horses. On that day there will be no pity. We will trample upon you. We will throw you into the canals % ' As you did with Rosa Luxemburg. We are hungry, But we are still strong. Look to your weapons, For we have need of them. For our children, For ourselves, “ For a piece of bread We will strike at your audacity. Enough of war, Enough of suffering, We fight for freedom, And you fight for gold braid. * a whirling current of national hat- reds. The German Social-Democracy deserted the working class in_ its hour of greatest need, to stand be- hind the bourgeoisie at the moment when world capitalism stood at the zenith of power, 1918, discouragement, defeat, and revolution in Germany. Once more a desperate working class stood at the parting of the ways, and again the leaders, instead of taking a po- tent step to wrest the workers of Germany out of the power of a weak- ened and shattered bourgeoisie, chose the path that led to capitalist re- construction against proletarian re- volution, Five years have passed since the founding of the German republic, and the German working class is stagger- ing on the downward path to ruin. Its political influence, in spite of a Socialist president, is dead. Its social institutions have long since succumb- ed to financial ruin that has emptied the nation’s coffers. Its labor unions, in the face of an era of unemploy- ment, have lost all possibility of aggressive action. In this tragedy of annihilation there is only one hope, the growing power and strength of the German Communist movement. From the outset it has struggled hard, some- times in open rebellion, for, the most part patiently, in a determined ef- fort to educate the working class to an understanding of its mission. More bitter than its capitalist oppo- nents have been’ the leaders of the Social-Democracy on the political field as well as in the trade union movement. Yet Communism grows apace. Even stronger than the words Communist agitators, recent events have opened the eyes of the workers. They see capitalism once more in undisputed power. They are starving and suffering in the face of ravishing luxury. They are tiring of leaders who have no hope, dread the victory of the Communist movement, and make a last, desperate effort, by The rich, the nobles and the generals have leagued To put their heels on our necks. ‘Because you had your heels on our necks, And because you took our bread, We will drag you from your horses, suppressing it and forcing it under- peed ens Poa ca ga ‘But just as the Social: ara Nak SAA bee. Go tae tore h exce: hee a p Aca pe Hi = will grow now despite persecution, In 1918, the German working class could be hoodwinked, e next revo- lutionary crisis will find a sadder We will know you by your shining boots. Your regalia will not save you. We will pursue you into your moun- tain fastness, We will strike at your audacity, f What can you do against lions? ee een oe De Se ‘ gainst your Iron Brigades Mase the beste of the prolotasiat Which are legion. but wiser working class. t epic of by the brilliant Watch the “Daily Worker” for the mil-|first instalment of “A Week”, the the Russian revolution, young Russian writer, ury Libedinsky. It will start soon. The Industries for the workers! noc paticaeeteses ennai denial ena Nice te ee See ieinreearteneaeeeomemrnsiesennenenentneeesianeeionbiiy THE CAMPAIGN FOR “THE DAILY” - - - - 8, JouNs BatLAM out of the needs of the workers. It is their paper. It is their voice. It is the instrument of their emancipa- tion. For they have paid for it; and the workers and farmers of America will support and cherish it. The Daily Worker is built upon the hearts of the working class. Every page and line will 7 filled with their spirit. It never will, it never can desert or betray them. For the Daily Worker is the child of the workers and farm- ers of America, The capitalist press depends for its foundation and support upon the capi- talists, the big business men of this country. The capitalis press will not desert or betray i#s masters—those who furnish the money for the main- tainance of the big English dailies. The Daily Worker was founded by the workers—it appeals for the sup- port of the workers; thus created and thus maintained The Daily Worker belongs to the working class and will lead them into battle for the final overthrow of capitalist society which is built upon their misery and degra- dation. The successful outcome of the Daily Worker Campaign Committee’s drive for the $100,000 is a real achievement... The Committee con- gratulates all those who participated and co-operated to bring about the birth of The Daily Worker. The next task—150,000 readers for our daily! —50,000 subscribers frog. coast to coast—150,000 workers receiving the glad tidings of a new day and the reports of the advancing proletariat three hundred and sixty-five days in e year. Let us, by working for The Daily Worker in Chicago, at the same time work for the establishment of a workers’ center in the country, until at last, the workers realizing their power and their slavery, unite to end forever ABOUT LABOR BANKS Editor of The Daily Worker—You may be interested in the conclusions of a worker on labor banks and bank- ing. I have thought about it a good bit and what I want to know is this: If the workers own only about one- third or less of the country’s wealth, how will it help them to put what they can save away in labor banks to fight the bosses on the investment field? I think too much fuss is being made about labor banks and too matiy workers are thinking and fussing about the overthrow of capitalism. Z. P., Pittsburgh, Pa, **** What Do You Say? Get unity thru the Labor Party! Watch the “Daily Worker” for the first instalment of .“A Week”, the great epic of the Russian revolution, by the brilliant young Russian writer, Tury Libedinsky. It will start soon. Protect the Foreign Born! Greetings to “THE DAILY WORKER” SPRINGDALE Joseph L. Mikovich Tony Shegert Mike Bujich Drzafer Gahatovich HARWICK, PA. Joseph Brinovec BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Morris Weiner PASSAIC, N. J. M. Schwatzer N. Herman J. Bailin S. Katz B. Levinson S. Raskin S. Smelkinson J. Rosenberg B. Padlwesky N. Tiktin L. Rabinowitz R. Herman A. Bloomkin S. Bloomkin S. Steinmfin _ Ph. Meltzer daily in every industrial | * the expoitation of the working class and to establish in these United States a Workers’ and Farmers’ Gov- ernment. LONG LIVE THE DAILY WORKER! WAKE UP! 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