The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1924, Page 10

NOT FOR “Are you really going to have an English Communist Daily in the United States?” is what they ask on all sides. Leading comrades and workers of the rank and file ask the same question. Comrades and work- ers who have returned from the United States and who are still tremendously interested in the Amer- ican movement, are filled with plea- sure when they hear that at last the American Communist movement and the working class of the United States are to have an organ of their own, But it is not only pleasure in the realization ef a dream that the Com- munist of the United States have had for severa] years, that animates these workers. The Communist In- ternational expressed its enthusiasm not merely because it meant that the American Communist movement has grown so powerful and has acquired such influence that it can contem- plate the establishment of a daily. For the Communist International and the comrades realize that the main- tenance of a daily in the United States is a serious matter. They know that it jwill mean endless sacri- fices on the part of the comrades, gigantic efforts to permeate the working elass and to induce the work- ers and farmers to give up their yel- low, anti-labor sheets, and support a ena organ of the workers and farmers. The Communist Daily can- not and should not hope to compete with the capitalist press. To have that in mind is to kill the paper at its birth. It must be the expression of the dynamic force of the workers and oppressed farmers. It must fur- nish them not only with gene news—-with Communist interpretation of events—but also supply that end- less fund of information that the AMERICA ALONE the miners and shopmen’s strike of|ventures whose aim is the exploita- 1922, should have preven to them /tion of foreign sphere and. whose re- clearly enough that the capitalist |sult will be fearful wars? Only the press is their greatest enemy and|power of the workers.” Despite the that only a working class organ can|hard blows that the American work- represent their interests. Will the /ers have received from the American DAILY WORKER be able to supply | government, they will believe in it. dals, adultery. cases, murders and| They still believe, in its democracy attempt to pollute the minds of\the!and in the possibility of putting workers with a flow of divorce scan-|“good” men into office so that the dals, adultery cases, murders andj|workers will benefit by it. When suicides; if it takes the mind of the! their “democratic” government calls workers to the REAL issues—which |to war, they will go. Perhaps not so the capitalist press deliberately | readily as large numbers went in the evades by feeding the worker such/last war; but, when the capitalist nauseating matter as shrieks out of|press spreads the stars and stripes, their yellow sheets, ‘when it talks about the barbarous memy, the American boys will still : e It will be a big task for the Com-| respond to the “call of civilization.” munists of America to get the work- ers and farmers to read articles and reports on the FACTS of life. The workers are so exhausted, so. enerv ated by the daily work, that they seek emotional and sextal excitement in every kind of social scandal. It will be the biggest task that the American Communists have set themselves to awaken the interest of the workers and to make them fighters for the support and extension of the Com- munist press. This task comes be- They will—provided there is not the workers’ own press to carry on | the campaign of propaganda and edu- cation, not fearing to tell the truth. Only the Communist press can do this. The labor and the socialist press either yields to the war mania, or obeys the orders of the govern- ment, It surrenders to the censor, for fear of being suppressed alto- gether. Rather diluted or perverted truth, than complete wiping out, they fore all others. It should be the} *"8¥¢- MAIN task of the party—exceeding all others. For without the DAILY Power in the world. America is the biggest imperialist Secretary of WORKER, the movement cannot}State Hughes might talk about dis- grow properly. With it, the Workers|armament. Coolidge also believes in Party will become a power in the|Peace, but he also believes in war. country. The capitalists recognize e want no more competitive arma- this fact, hence their loud laments|ments. We want no more war. But and complaints that the Communists |e want no weakness that invites dis- are allowed to establish a daily. They|P°sition. A people who neglect their know the power of the press; Seupitliy: Winks salen lence in For “we are no longer a weak nation thinking mainly of defense, dreading foreign imposition. We are great and powerful. New powers bring new responsibilities. Our duty now is to help give stability to the world.” Thus in his message to Congress. A new devastating war faeces the work- ing class and farmers, not of America alone but of the whole world. Who are to mass the workers against the war? Who are to help the workers and peasants of other countries to know that the enthusiasm of the Communists and the fellowing they have acquired among the workers and farmers will ensure the of the movement. As they cannot meet us with argument, they will use gov- mental power and official intrigue in order to keep us from reaching the working class. So much the more need of the Communist daily. — There are other problems-~almost of equal importanee—thct the Com- Daily nrust face. American they national defence are putting By ISRAEL AMTER tries who, looking ahead at the com- ing war, see a militant daily in the United States preparing to carry on the fight against the war from which the workers and farmers the world over will suffer. Hence the Ameri- can Communist Daily is of impor- tance, not to the American Party alone, but to the working class move- ment of the world. The DAILY WORKER will and must tell the truth, unflinchingly. It must. copy the press of Soviet Russia. Altho the Soviet government is in power, it recognizes that there are serious defects in the organization. It has to combat the bourgeois sa- botage. It has to deal with ineffi- ciency. Theft and embezzlement must be rooted out. The press does not hesitate to reveal the crimes of leading Communists. Workers in the factories write about bad conditions and the tyranny of the managers. This publicity puts an end to this unsocia] attitude. (Discussions. on government plans reach the workers, who know what their government in- tends to do. occur? The Communist Party is at pres- ent conducting a heated discussion in innumerable meetings in factories, universities, clubs and in the press. The discussion has taken the form of a polemic. And like all polemics, personalities are indulged in. The whole world learns of. it—the Com- munists have nothing to conceal. What comes out of these discussions? Clarity of purpose and will. clear-minded Communists, working in the interests of the working class, can act in this fashion. Only the Com- munist press can dare to enter into such discussions. Secret diplomacy is the very nature of the capitalist sys- item—secrecy is one of the sources of capitalist power. Openness of dis- cussion, with nothing to hide, is the strength of the proletarian press. The DAILY WORKER will have this as its motto—and will be one of the powerful weapons of the Ameri- {ean workers and farmers ayainst the ; American bourgeoisie, and of the , Standard bearers of the workers and Where else does this action. imperialism is marching forward sponse the coming imperialist war? peasants of the world in the violent The Communist will have to |; 4 _—_ no soft phrases, | None but the Communists and the struggle that they must eonduct in ttre the facts about labor troubles |;, My knows wild west methods. It] Communist press, order to put an end to bourgeois Hence the workers of Soviet Rus- rule, and capitalist governments with Only: & —— ae sia, the leaders and the Comrades of their bloody exploitation and destruc- the rank and file, who understand his-; tive way. “We are rea going tory, who know very much about'to have an English Commuftist Daily America, rejoice that the American|in the United States,” we can now Communists have been able to estab- lish an English’ Daily to reach the masses. The comrades of all coun- Lenin: Marxist, Revolutionist, Realist history of the Russian Com- movement laid down the tal thesis, that a revolution Russia would and must be di-. a of state power, the Workers and Peasants, The jan revolution must not end: a victory talist stint, in spite of imprisonment, exile and poverty. He was the directing force in that stormy period from March to November, 1917, when the social forces in Russia were swing- ing towards a proletarian victory. ground channels from Finland. But the very acuteness of the class struggle forced the masses to the ete taken by Lenin and the eviki, and November 7, 1917, saw him become the first premier of the a Workers’ and Peasant was the realist who under the shadow of the menace of German bayonets which were pen- Russia, and threa ent, stated that if the Revolution was to live Russia must make peace with Germany no mat- ter how odious such a peace might Coolidge “Helps” the Farmers':: at a recent into of 800 persons. It is rather for such small communities diticut the banking situation in the wheat to support a bank.” in-! This army of parasites has been ‘farther farming states. this retry Blogarama, SH Actually, however, the attitude to be that there of supported f yeaks farmers who had lost money! Dakota p banal may in the crash of « bank at Sioux Falls, bleed ‘could: be-drewn on the When ¢ revolution would be federal reserve banks at Chicago| Sioux closed the doors. Russia, Lenin branded such an at-|and the Twin Cities and we hope| the big f are going into titude as incorrect and a perversion, for good results almost immediate-|'wheat fields to “rescue” the li of Marxism. It was Lenin the Marx-| ly.” d banks. When the rescue is eompleted ist who early discerned the oppor-| The White House spokesman said| the big banks will be bigger a Reg BOR et oR et nterna’ was he who was|tho not yet desperate. eat the the founder and leader of the Com-|to become worse, however, pn A Rag Bape munist International which is the| immediate relief is afforded that will| The big banker eats the little general staff of Se wees: rons: shen ho Sosa <= Se aera eee) eae ae for years been tionary movement, thruout the affected area. In North| off the working farmer. W nig oteeg Meare me lPorc ones Pn Pa 80|'worm can turn, dy, Mey since early youth devoted himself to many small information| When he dees he the revolutionary movement without is that there is a bank for each com- | ner, be a = the| verywhere, it was Lenin {say- “It is another armamont of the American workers in their struggle and in yours,” be. In spite of powerful o tio in the ranks of the Cones Party, Lenin’s policy prevailed a the treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed, which enabled the Bolsheviki to een ede position and meet @ numerous counter- revolutionary forces. Again in the spring of 1921, when ue to the strain of the civil war, the blockade of International Capitalism, a economic life of Russia had alt but ceased to function, when chaos and nm were ge pointed out the correct path to take. e*