The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1925, Page 11

Sr Rally to the Daily Worker - UR party membership’ and those workers who sympathize with our program, at least in a general way, are now answering the question: shall we have a daily paper that will fear- lessly express our point of view and energetically defend our intérests? “We have no doubt that all of these workers will answer this question em- phatically in the affirmative. We do not doubt that every class conscious worker can be made to feel and real- ize the need of having @ daily spokes- man for the American working class. But what we must strive to do is to make the workers not merely grasp the abstract need for-the existence of. a newspaper like the DAILY WORK- ER,...We must spare no effort to con- vince, these workers that it is their duty to insure the practical continu- ous existence of the DAILY WORK- ER. HE best way to approach the work- ers in an appeal of this sort is to resort to practical examples of in- stances where the bourgeois press at- tacks and tries to undermine workers’ movements ,and when the DAILY WORKER defends and tries to strenthen these same movements of the working class, Concrete examples which will be most easily grasped by the workers should be chosen by us, if we wish to get the greatest results. Let us take, for example, the pres- ent anthracite strike. We can: put it very simply and with straightforward- ness to the workers, Show the work- ers how the capitalist press is lining up with the .coal bosses, with the operators on every issue in the strike. Show the workers copies of bour- geois papers in which the striking miners and their demands are at- tacked. At the same time GIVE AWAY a copy or two of the DAILY WORKER in which the anthracite » miners are defended, in which their demands. are ind Then, we may Bie up “the union- breaking campaign of certain reaction- ary labor leaders, Let us take the re- cent situation in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. We can show that-the only paper printed in the English language which con- sistently and sincerely fought against the vicious expulsion policy and stood up for a united labor organiza- tion, for a solid union, was the DAILY. WORKER, HE present situation in Panama where the American soldiery — is serving in the role of strikebreakers affords another practical, living ap- proach to workers for getting some support for the daily. It certainly af- fords interesting and clinching argu- ment to compare the columns of the DAILY WORKER with the columns of every capitalist sheet in the country in the handling of’*this critical situa- tion. In every so-called big paper, that is in every paper of the bosses, the poor tenants of Panama are being denounced as rioters and the soldiers bayoneting. the defenseless working men are hailed as heroes. Only in the DAILY WORKER will there be found a plea in behalf of the working men. striking to reduce the rent bills for their miserable hovels. Arent appeal. in reference to Pan- ama workers is mot distant from. the rent issue, which is keenly felt by great masses of the American prole- tariat. The landlords in both in- stances are largely members of the same American capitalist class. There is much sympathy for .the “under-dog” in the ranks of the American proletariat which we can exploit most: constructively for the working class and its institutions like the DAILY WORKER, i byes ravages of the fascisti in Italy gives us an excellent point of ap- proach to many thousands of workers. There is considerable hatred of the fascist murderers by the American working masses, We can certainly utilize this’ issue to disillusion the workers by showing them how the newspapets, ‘which always slander and _vilify them when they manifest the slightest resistance to the open-shop- pers,*repeatedly indorse the bloody crimes of the Italian government gun- men and hooligans. Then, we should bring up the way in which the DAILY WORKER has treated the fascisti abroad and the open-shoppers at home. Strike the point quickly and bring it home to the workingman. Let us take a typical instance how to approach a poor farmer. Talk to him about the propaganda the capi- talist papers are now spreading ceaselessly in behalf of increased freight rates. Compare for him the way in which the DAILY WORKER and his bourgeois farm papers have been handling the railroad barons, the coal magnates, and the big bankers. N short, every need and issue of the workingman affords us astart- ing point for appealing to him to sup- port the DAILY WORKER. The Uncivilized! An ancient ape, once on a time, Disliked exceedingly to climb, And so he picked him out a tree And said, “Now, this belongs to me; I have a hunch that munks are . , mutts And I can make them gather nuts And bring the bulk of them to me By claiming title to this three.” He took a green leaf and a reed And wrote himself a title-deed, ' Proclaiming pompously and slow: “All monkeys by. these presents . know—.” Next morning, when the monkeys came To gather nuts, he made his claim: “All monkeys climbing on this tree Must wee their gathered nuts to Orackie "the same on equal ‘shares; The meats are mine, the shells aro theirs.” ; “Buy ‘what right?” amazed, Thinking the ape Was surely crazed. “By this,” he answered; “if you'll read | You'll find it is a title deed, they cried, Made in precise and formal shapel *® Am DAILY WORKER is not only the or-{circle. Workers America. gan of the Party of The By Jay Lovestone eae What we need now is to in- (Communist) | crease this “family,” so to say. First DAILY | of all, all our party members must get WORKER is the organ of the whole|/into the campaign to save the DAILY American working class. It is pre-] WORKER. Secondly, our party mem- cisely because the DAILY WORKBHR|bers must approach a wider circle of is the political organ of the Workers} workers in appealing for support for (Communist) ‘Party that it is the or-|the DAILY WORKER. gan of the whole working class. It is The DAILY WORKER is the most axiomatic for us that we Communists | vital concern of every member of our have no interests other than those of|party regardless of what-language he the working class as a class. speaks or reads. The DAILY Our members have not appealed to} WORKER must be made the con- a wide enuf mass of workers in behalf|cern of every - workingman. of our leading’ party organ, Then the | only will our task have been achieved. DAILY WORKER. The support of|Then only will the DAILY WORKER the DAILY. WORKER has beén too/occupy the place in which it right- much a “family” affair, in a sense, | fully belongs in the lives “of the too much restricted to a too narrow | American working masses. And sworn before a fellow ape Exastly on the legal plan Used by that wondrous creature, man, In London, Tokio, New York, Glengarry, Kalamazoo and Cork, Unless my deed is recognized, It proves you quite uncivilized.” “But,” said one “you'll agree It was.not you whe made this tree.” “Nor,” said the ape, serene and bland, “Does any owner make his land, Yet all its hereditaments, Are his and figure in his rents.” monkey, The puzzled monkeys sat about; They could not make the question out. Plainly, by precedent and law, The ape’s procedure showed no flaw; And yet, no matter what he said, The stomach, still denied the head. ‘Up spake one sprightly monkey, then: “Monkeys are monkeys, men are men; The ape should try his legal capers On men, who may respect his pa- pers, WE don't know deeds. We do know bert tg And spite of ‘ifs’ and ‘ands’ and ‘buts’, We know who gathers and unmeats ‘em, By monkey practice, also eats ’em. “So TELL THE APE AND ALL HIS FLUNKEYS, No man-tricks can he play on monk- eys.” Thus, apes still climb to°get their — food, Since monkey’s minds are crass and “erude, ‘And: monkeys, all so ill-advised, Still eat their nuts—~UNCIVILIZED. ~EDMUND VANCE COOKE.’ (Published by special request of Waldo J. Wernicke, A Machinist, 365 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, Cal, —Editor’s Note. ) German Rail Heads Go West. WASHINGTON, Oct, 16.—Bert M. Jewell, president of the railway em- ployers’ department of the American Federation of Labor, is escorting on a middle western tour the five German rail labor executives who visited the cohvention in Atlantic City. They will see Cincinnati, Kansas City, Cedar Raplds, Chicago and Indiatiapolts iéad- quarters of various unions. Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. irinnd ©