The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1926, Page 7

If *| dh Second Section: SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1926. Buylomet of THE DAILY This Magazine Section Appears Every Saturday in The DAILY WORKER. KER. wor ON TO THE FICHT! THE DAILY WORKER, TWO YEARS OLDTHIS WEEK, ALREADY LEADS THE WORKERS’ STRUGGLE! The Daily Worker’s Birthday © Two years ago, on the thirteenth day of January, 1924, came to life in a rickety little print shop on Halsted street in Chi- cago, the first really revolutionary daily newspaper of the work- ing class ever published in the English language in any country in the world. This infant newspaper was born in unpropitious surroundings—the mortality odds were all against it. Publishing Newspapers is a very expensive thing in the United States of America—in the English language. For technical reasons of news gathering and competition, the expense of a foreign-lan- guage newspaper is very much less. In. publishing an English- language daily paper one has to meet the competition of billion- aire publishers able to purchase every device of ingenuity to ‘attract—yes, the workers themselves. When the Workers (Communist) Party undertook to pub- lish The DAILY WORKER there were many who thought it couid not be done, 1 It has been done. Doleful predictions have all gone wrong.: Why has The DAILY WORKER successfully braved all dan- gers and survived, more vital every day? . This can be understood only if we understand what a daily ¢hewspaper organ is to a revolutionary party—and if we under- stand what a revolutionary party—a Commiinist Party is. The DAILY WORKER is net the mere sum ‘of its mechanical equipment and its personal staff.. In philosophy it is eustomary to point out that a clock, put together and. going, is certainly something more than the sum of its parts heaped in a pile. Of a Communist daily newspaper, organ of a Communist Party, this is even truer than it is of a clock. The DAILY WORKER is something far greater than its rum- ning machinery. The DAILY WORKER is the living personality of a political party which is itself greater. than the sum of its members. The DAILY WORKER is also something in relation to the working class as a whole—it expresses ‘the future of the working class as a whole. : Why did the socialist party’s daily newspaper die almost sim- ultaneously with the rise of the Communist daily newspaper? The explanation is to be found in the difference between.the so- cialist party and the Workers (Communist) Party, A Commun- ist Party is—even if very small—a living part of the working class as soon as it has even a slight connection with the working masses. A socialist party is, today, a dead limb of the capitalist political parties grafted upon the working class tree. r 1 of the American party of the world spr epationy Twenty-five years ago, Vladimir Iyitch Ulyanov (Lenin) was struggling for the development of the Russian Social-Demacratic Labor Party. Already at that time the conscious and deliberate work of Lenin in constructing a great Marxian revolutionary workers’ party—a Communist Party—was well under way. And together with this the inseparable task—as Lenin knew it— of developing and guiding the slowly beginning motion of the great sluggish scores of millions whose leadership the Communist Party was to become. At that time, in May, 1901, Lenin wrote an article for the party paper, Iskra, under the title of “With What to Begin?’’—or as it is translated, “How to Begin?” : “With what to begin?” asked Lenin twenty-five years ago. What was necessary as the first step on the great path which was to lead to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics? And Lenin answered his own question—"An all-Russian political news- paper!” Read and ponder this on the second anniversary of the founding of the only Cothmunist daily newspaper in thé English language in the whole world. “Where to begin?” With a political newspaper !—answers the still ringing voice of Lenin across the span of twenty-five years. . | aoe We are publishing Lenin’s article today in this ise of. the zine supplement. It would be well for all.to read it. ©" *) | The fact alone that The DAILY WORKER is published in the English language—the language of both of the two greatest im- erialist powers in the world—is a fact of immense significance. There are two great enemies in the world—oppressed and oppressors. The citadel of one is in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics—the one-sixth of.the earth which belongs to the work- ing class of the world; The citadel of the other is the other “union”—the United States of America—the oligarchy of Morgan and Rockefeller. 18 In the heart of the citadel of world capitalism; the Commun- ist world revolution has its daily organ of leadership.’ And this organ lives. ; Marx and Lenin have made us understand how it comes about that precisely in the great imperialist oligarchies the labor move- ment is full of the corruption which results from: imperialism, And also they taught us how to fight these oligarchies. We will do it largely thru The DAILY WORKER, as the voice Keep The DAILY WORKER alive.