The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1925, Page 14

By H. C. FILLMORE have just come in after attempting to sell DAILY WORKER subs from door to door and want to record my impressions while they are still fresh. Let us begin by facing the fact that it’s a real job, this haling a stranger to the door and actually selling ‘and getting the money right away for a sub. Bourgeois firms, selling by agent have understood this so well that al- most invariably nowadays, the agent says, “you don’t have to pay to-day” and “pay the postman or agent upon delivery.” In present day America anyone who is at all easy to sell to, had better crawl in a hole and hide if he wants to survive. To fail to see this, to fail to understand something of the annoyances visited daily on householders, particulalrly in. large cities is to fail to see life. ERSONALLY I am rather hard- boiled and anyone who sells to me from the door step will earn his sale. The idea of this campaign is to distribute the DAILY WORKER from door to door every night for a week and then go around on Sundays and pick up the subs. Subs may come slowly, but one does make contacts, hears the ideas of people outside the party and the ex- perience is invaluable. We went in two’s a man and a girl comrade to- gether and took turns leading off. NYONE who thinks there are no classes in America and that thc way you get your living, does no largely determine your ideas, you manner of living and even your facial expression ought to try this. There we interrupt an old boy eat- ing his dinner, nice black clothes, gold watch chain and charm, hands that have long ago lost their callouses if they ever had any, conservative writ- ten all over him and he pompously ad- mits seeing one copy of the paper “would just as soon we didn’t leave any more.” He “don’t think there is any call for such a publication.” B telt him: we.are just tickled to “a¥ath to havé his opinion, that there is a growing army of workers of a different belief, that its a mighty nice spring day and then we leave him to go back to his lunch, we hop- ing that his appetite is spoiled. Next we get a liberal lady, the daughter of an old time temperance physician who says her family has been reading off the orthodox track for years, says she liked some things in the paper, very kind and sympa- thetic, pleads stress of work, for not subscribing. Sinclair and Nearing about her calibre. N™ a young working girl to whom we promise to send a sam- ple Young Worker or two. (Note, have them with you strike when the iron is hot, some other time may be no time), The member of the sheet British Leaders Urge Trade Union Unity (Continued from page 1.) osal for the convening of a world labor congress, The date fixed for the meeting of our general council is February 5, 1925, and the following days. It will be seen from the above cor- respondence that in the course of the six months there was (presumably as a result of the British Trade Union Congress declaration in September) a distinctly more cordial tone in the letter sent by the bureau on Septem- ber 11. On the other hand, there is a perceptible stiffening of the tone in the letter of December 1, The last letter would, it seemed, definitely pre- clude any further move towards an entente; and postpones any further consideration to the meeting of Feb- ruary 5. Undoubtedly this was due to the fact that the negotiations at thaf time (November and December) proceeding between the British trade unions and the Russian trade unions had placed a new complexion on the situation. To these Anglo-Russian negotiations we must now turn, (To be continued.) SELLING THE COMMUNIST PRESS metal workers, old 1922 strike? knew the old Weekly Worker and liked it, out of work and broke, probably we have revived interest here. He knows who owns America all right. Then the two friends, a Russian and an Armenian—the former a read- er of Novy Mir the latter illiterate, both out of work and with an idea that “American workers are 50 years behind.” We say, “Not 50 of the kind of years Europe has had since 1914, our turn here is coming,: read the DAILY WORKER to help prepare you for it,” HEN the maid who asks if it is a church paper and when assured that it is not, feels, confident her mis- tress “would not be interested.” The pleasant faced landlady who says she gave the papers, to her room- ers, and will ask them about it when they come in, could probably ,be ap- proached herself, if we had carried something: of special interest to “wo- men, I think, a pamphlet, written’ in simple common language, illuminat- ing the great improvement coming to millions of such women with the ad- vent of Communism, would be in order at such times, ORE contacts at more’ houses. These are average however. We may all see one trouble, these blocks are too much mixed, these folk have different ideas because they have lived differently, maybe a first class nypnotist could hold them in conver- ation long enough to study them, and o come to understand them. Perhaps this is a drawback of all arge cities. One idea would be to get 1 block where one kind of workers were living, mine or mill or some in- dustry where they were feeling the capitalist pinchers, ET their stories and slap 'em in to the DAILY WORKER, the way they told them, let ’em be raw, who cares? Of course, summing their part up in the world labor movement. but make this plain, these are not yet Marxists. Then, by golly, an agent would be armed with something that had a punch to it, if the workers don’t take an interest in our stuff, it’s the method that’s wrong. We have to “sell” Communism to the masses, the fact that we know these ideas are for their own good doesn’t mean that they know it yet. Making Russian Tea ing, but for boiling water to,make Russian tea. The soldier in The Beauty and the Bolshevik is shown here making a fire in the samovar. He is using his boot in the true Rus- sian style as a bellows to blow the fire in the samovar. Come and see how it is done in The Beauty and Bolshevik, Wednesday, April 15, from 6 p. m. at Wicker Park Theater, 1539 Milwaukee Ave., near Robey St. Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 350 N. FIFTH STREET, Philadelphia, Pa. Did you ever see a samovar? | it ain’t no ukelele, it isn’t for play eS ee / - COMMUNISM ENLISTS THE WOMEN A FEW years ago the’ well-known theatre director, Reinhardt, pre- sented “Lysistrata” by Aristoph- anes, at the Deutsche Theater, the play in which the old scoffer and opponent of Athenian democracy depicts a woman’s conspiracy to end the war. All Greece was tired of war and the women decided to end it by a demonstration of solidarity. What could that be? A sex strike. Atid this sex strike, depicted with ingenious humor, entertains the bourgeois ladies and gentlemen in an extraordinary degree. Old Aris- tophanes had known gifted women, Aspasia, for instance, the wife of Pericles. His Lysistrata is also rep- resented as a clever woman. But the masses of women who follow her are depicted as pretty. kittens who have.no other weapon than ‘the ability tq love. This representation does not even correspond with the role of woman in ancient times; she was a mother and mistress of the home, that is, she did a great necessary social work. But as mother and mistress of the home, she was restricted in her activity to the domestic circle, to her family, and therefore she could not engage in concentrated mass activity. Since this time the world has radically changed. Women are working in factories, workshops and offices. The type- writer alone represents a technical revolution. Without the ridiculea lady typist the whole of modern !n- dustry and of modern trade is im- possible. During the war wom- an’s importance as a worker in- creased ten-fold. That is why in many countries the war with one full sweep granted suffrage to wom- en. The war is over. Millions or women who played a revolutionary role in 1919 have retired from polt- tics, but they could not retire to a peaceful home for this peaceful home was destroyed. Thruout Ev- . rope there is a tremendous housing crisis which is undermining the roots of the bourgeois family. The situation of the working woman has become worse. She is the first victim of the capitalist of- fensive. Her wages are the first to be cut, and when a reduction of em- By KARL RADEK. ployes is made, she is the first to be thrown on to the pavement, and therefore the working women will play an increasingly greater role in the class struggle as the years go by. The bourgeoisie laughs itself sick over the idea of love as a fight- ing weapon, but it will learn to know of hate as the fighting weapon of the working women. 4 The Communist women’s move- ment is in its first stages, and that is the best evidence of how young and weak the Communist movement in general still is, Only the move- ment which embraces that half of humanity, the working women, can revolutionize the world. Interna- tional Women’s Day was therefore created not only to mobilize tne women, but also point out to the Communist men that they are be- traying their -cause.if they do. not support the movenient of the prole- tarian women with great fervor ands . with great earnestness. The winhing over of the masses or working wom: en into the Communist movement will give it an enormous offensive power. The working woman as a Communist gnarantees victory even in the most difficult circumstances. The spirit of the fighting workers in difficult situations depends on the spirit, the endurance, the energy of women, for in a difficult situation a dependent woman might cause a defeat. ‘ Therefore, all energies to the fore in the fight for the soul of the working women. MOISSAYE OLGIN 10 SPEAK IN RUSSIAN IN CHIGAGO, APRIL 17 What promises to be one of the most interesting lectures given in Chicago in the Russian language is the lecture to be given by Comrade Moissaye Olgin, co-editor of the Russian Communist daily, Novy Mir. He will speak at the Workers’ Home (formerly the Soviet School), 1902 W. Division St., on Friday, April 17, at 8 p. m., on “What did the Russian Revolution Give to the Workers and Peasants?” é SOR SS SRS TSS SSSA SSSA BHT SF4SSSSSAH A Most Important Publication from England! A Descriptive Summary of The Report of the British Trade Union Delegation and International Trade Union Unity. _ With Preface by A. A. 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