The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1925, Page 12

HE organization department of the Central Executive Committee has received a letter from the organiza- tion department of the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national, giving favorable suggestions for building up the party press. The suggestions deal with our daily press, as well as shop nuclei papers.- These recommendations are based on the collective experiences of the various sections of the Communist Interna- tional. In view ef the campaign to build The DAILY WORKER into a mass Communist paper, and in view of the vigorous reorganization efforts now being made thruont the party to or- ganize the party on the basis of shop nuclei, these recommendations are especially timely and instructive. We herewith begin the publication of this letter of suggestions, in two instalments. The first instalment follows: To the organization department of the Executive Committee of the ‘Workers Party of America, Dear Comfades, With respect to the circular letter of the agitprop department of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International concerning the international press campaign for the development of the Communist press, we wish to point out that the follow- ing tasks should receive your special attention: (a)-Organization of the sale of the press, construction and development of the apparatus for this circulation; (b) Organization of the regular publication of factory nucleus news- papers forall big and medium indus- trial enterprises. To carry out these tasks, close col- laboration between the agitprop and organization departments of the cen- ter and the district leading organs of the party is essential. (a) Organization of Newspaper Circulation. The small circulation of the Com- seniat press is not only due to the shortcoming of its contents, but also to the unsatisfactory organization of newspaper circulation, In some coun- tries, there is no regular subscription system and the circulation depends en- tirely on street and other scales. With such a method, it is impossible to control the supply of newspapers and to establish a regular nucleus of subscribers. In other countries, the newspaper supply takes place thru an apparatus over which we have no in- fluence and which is restriced as to the mechanical supply of newspapers (street sales in Austria and supply by post in other countries). In some other countries again, the business managements of the Communist press have created an apparatus of their own for newspaper circulation, thru which the subscribers are supplied at their places of residence. In most cases, this apparatus is either loosely or not all connected with the party apparatus (Czecho-Slovakia, Ger- many). It is only in a very few or- ganizations that the leading party or- gans superintend and control the con- struction and development of the ap- paratus for newspaper circulation. Under such conditions, it is only nat- ural that the newspaper circulation apparatus is hardly used at all for the circulation of periodicals and _ litera- ture, The Communist Press Must Be a Mass Organizer. This is only possible with a regu- lar subscription system, and if the apparatus for newspaper circulation is a branch of the party apparatus, The apparatus for newspaper circulation must be organized on the same basis as the party apparatus, that is to say, the circulation should not take place only in the residential districts, but also in and outside the industrial en- terprises. The construction of the circulation apparatus is effected under the super- intendence of the agitprop depart- ment of the party in conjunction with the management board of the news- paper, Newspaper sellers and dis- tributors ane appointed, by tbe slead- How to Strengthen Our Communist Press ing organs of the locals in conjunic- tion with the leading organs of fac- tory and street nuclei. In the indus- trial enterprises, the agitprop organ- izer is responsible for the organiza- tion of the circulation both in and out- side the various factories. Mass circulation of the Communist press is only possible if all nucleus members are induced to do regular agitational work. Nuclei should pre- sent every month to the leading or- gans of the party statistical reports on the number of subscribers and newspaper sales. Moreover, the man- aging board of the newspaper, pre- sents every month reports to the lead- ing organs of the party on the num- ber of subscribers in the various or- ganizations. If the apparatus for newspaper cir- culation is organized in this manner, it will be easy to distribute additional copies with the help of the party ap- paratus in the event of the confisca- tion or prohibition of some editions, because of the existing connection with the enterprises which makes a rapid supply of newspapers to a large number of workers possible. Party nuclei should make sure that subscribers to the party press who are not yet party members, be drawn into collabpration for the ‘press as workers’ correspondents. They should also be drawn into the work connected with newspaper circulation and _ re- cruiting of new subscribers. In nearly all the countries of West Europe and in America, our opponents are strengthening and sysiematizing their agitation in industrial enter- prises. This is done by publishing factory newspapers and by selling bourgeois dailies in and outside the enterprises. To counteract this, we should take the following measures: (a) In addition to the systematic recruiting of subscribers, newspaper sales should be organized both inside and outside the enterprises. As circu- lation greatly depends on the space which is alloted in the press to fac- tory reports, more space should be giyen, in tature; te all, factory ques- tions. When labor disputes take place in important industrial enterprises, the front page of the paper should be allotted to these questions. It is such an important matter for us to exercise and ®&xtend our influence over the thousands of workers employed in large industrial enterprises that it is worth while to break up a page and reset it'for the sake of the work- ers of the respective enterprise. The editorial boards of the daily press should work in close contact with the editors of nucleus mewspapers and should accept from the latter good drawings, articles, poems, etc. (b) Better use should be made of nucleus newspapers for recruiting subscribers. Notices and short ex- tracts from the daily press should be published in nuclei newspapers urging workers to become subscribers, Reg- ular subscribers to nucleus newspa-— pers should be registered and induced to subscribe to the daily press. (c) Numbers of the daily newspa- pers in which questions concerning certain enterprises are fully dealt with, should be plentifully supplied to newspaper sellers responsible for the sale in the said enterprises. It is also advisable to publish special editions of the daily press. These papers need not be more than half the size of the daily paper. Such special editions should contain important po- litical notices from the daily press and reports from the enterprises in which the special number is to be circulated. As it is much cheaper to publish these special numbers than ordinary dail- ies, because of their smaller size and the possibility of using numerous type extracts from the daily, their mass circulation is possible. By this means our press is popularized among the workers. In some towns, recruiting of new subscribers was encouraged by the managing board of the newspaper presenting books for the nucleus li- brary to those factory nuclei which had shown special activity in getting subscribers, (To be concluded.in the next ieee) Charlotte Anita Whitney - - An Appreciation By JAMES H. DOLSEN. It took the highest legal agency of plutocracy in this country—the United States supreme court—a number of years to decide that it had no jurisdiction in the case of Charlotte Anita Whitney. On the other hand whenever a matter involving any curtail- ment of the rights of exploi- tation is concerned, such as a child labor law, these black-robed priests of ruling class justice are quick to dis- cern a jurisdiction. “God Knows” Bill Taft, with his pension from the Steel Trust, however, along with the rest of the corporation hirelings who grace the bench, are clever enough to evade an h unpopular issue when they can gain their point by a negative decision regarding their power of in- tervention. By its action in these matters the supreme court has in effect declared that the guarantees of freedom con- tained in the federal constitution— the bill of rights—are restrictions only on the power of congress itself, thus leaving the individual states to restrict such liberty in any measure they see fit. Thus it disposes once more of the fetish that there is any liberty in a capitalist state except that which the exploiters are willing to allow the workers as a vent for their discontent. Miss Whitney deserves the high re- gard of all Communists and working Class rebels for her attitude during her appeal. She has never flinched a particle from her interest in the cause of labor nor her activities in behalf of ‘the persecuted. Particularly has this been true of her fight for justice to the Wobblies in California—a battle she has never flinched from in the most hectic days of their history in the state of “orange groves and jails.” In California this dementia raged CHARLOTTE ANITA WHITNEY. longer than anywhere else in the country. Ambitious, scheming, poli- ticians, utilizing the ‘fact that the I. W. W. had not the slightest interest in politics and would not therefore have the least influence, aside from a group of sympathizing liberals, in such af- fairs, engaged in wholesale campaigns of intimidation. Of course, they were egged on to this course by the open- shop business interests, in particular by certain officials in the Better Amer- ican Federation whose job was the capitalization of anti-Red hysteria in order to prove their salaries should be conitnued by the business groups, Miss Whitney’s friendship for the victims of the numerous frameups perpetrated by the district attorneys of the state against the Wobblies was well-known thruout the state. The class to which by antecedents she naturally belonged—the old native aristocracy—treated her as an infam- ous deserter from their ranks. A neice of a United States supreme court justice—the friend and advo cate of the lowest and most despised social rebels! It was enough to make them froth at the mouth. What Miss Whitney suffered in those long years no one Can realize who has not known » what a daily atmosphere of such mis- understandings and hostilities means, Thru it all she has been an inspira- tion to her friends. I have known Miss Whitney for about seven years and count her ac- quaintance as most precious. I would we had a thousand like her in con- stancy and personal courage, in will- ingness to face the bitterest social os- tracism and the hatred of former associates, in an instinctive desire to stand by the most oppressed and a readiness to subordinate self to the (Continued from page 4) the same time the reorganization makes it more intensive, more integ- ral in the industrial life of the Ger- man proletariat. Hesitancy of anti- quated functionaries is swept aside by the workers from the shops who al- ready feel that the new form, even in its incomplete present form, will give them a deeper say-so in party matters. Where properly applied, the new form hag resulted in a markedly increased proletarian membership, and the same has been the result also of the broad- er united front organizational policies. Fascists Organize Shop Nuclel. Imitation is the sincerest flattery; the adoption of our tactic by our en- emy is proof of its effectiveness, Thus the “general staff” of German capital- ism’s fight against Communism ‘has sent out instructions for the formation of “anti-Communist shop nuelei,” each with a propaganda, an espionage, and a strong-arm (anti-terror, they call it) section, This “central committee for the combatting of Communism” con- sists of Dr, Jahres-Lowenstein of the coal syndicate, Oberstleutnant von Stulpnagel of the Reichswehr, Vogler for the Stinnes’ interests, Heil-Bosch of the chemical trust, Kienzle of the department of public order, Selte of The German Communist Party at Work movement, in counting sacrifice for ideals as one of the most worthwhile objects in life. If she has to go finally to San Quen- tin penitentiary, the cowardly and sanctimonious politician who sits in the governor’s chair at Sacramento will find that his troubles have just begun. The white light of nation- wide publicity will be focused on the intolerable conditions at the state pen- itentiary. The nearly-forgotten Wob- blies will be heard and the lid will be ripped off the festering mess of pottage which has been long brewing in the state. the Stalhelm, Mahran of Jungdo, Kloppe of Werwolf, Geisler of United Fatherland Societies, Schmidt of na- tional employers’ association, Von Zengen of the society of employers, Von Berg of the league for Protection German culture, and Plankh of the In- | dustrialist Verband. With propaganda methods not unlike those of the Gom- munists they plan to mobilizé the con- aims directly contrary to the basic economic interests of its members. For the present, however, with the slack work of the deflation period, there is grave danger to the working class in this anti-Red anti-strike move. The Communists raise the slogan of labor unity in the shops, the Red against the bosses’ rough-neck battal- ions—and they are getting mass re- as atal-6 tt " fn mass feel this basic need for unity and ee The German party at work. An in- spiring picture and one full of lessons owen peak » i ACNE, hae OLS EEE SNE ng St ae eee Race. on