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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 1 iy3u Page Three itatement of the Central Com- | mittee of the C. P. U.S. A. To All Workers — To All Members of the Communist Party: ‘The most important weapon in building the revolutionary workingclass organizations, f fighting against unemployment, for the 7- i hour day, against imperialist war, for the | @efence of the Soviet Union—is the workers’ | | | in daily newspaper, The Daily Worker. ». The Daily Worker must become cur ¢ | “petive agitator, educator, and organizer, « ori together all the thousands of s d ganizations, and individuals into a powertul movement, fused with a common kn || rogram and will. | 7} All these absolutely necessary functions igoand of us all, that we make a drastic change ‘m our approach to the Daily Worker. | our newspaper must be improved by br ||| into its staff of contributors hundreds ||| Workers’ Correspondents in every indus | center of the country. In spite of many im- ‘|| provements in recent months, the Dai ||| still requires much more help ir? this respect. ‘|| The Central Committee calls upon the Daily ‘|| Worker staff and all members of the par set energetically to work to make the | Worker a real national mass organ, reflecting and leading every workingclass struggle in the ||] country. i ' ||| mass circulation. Our recruiting drive for the t party was a splendid success—but it had one U\} great weakness in that it did not simultancously ||| extend the circulation of our newspaper to new ||! tens of thousands. Now that the Trade Union ' Unity League and the revolutionary unions are (|. starting their drive for 50,000 new membe §|| it is absolutely imperative that the Daily | Worker shall increase its circulation in the | 4 same proportions. Only with a mass c la- * tion of our newspaper can our mass organiza- Objectives of 4 1. To secure within two months, from April 10,000 Additional Daily Worker Mail Su 20,000 Additional Copies a Day in Bundl \ $15,000 in Contributions From Work the Development of Mass Circulatio! To Attain a Circulation of 60,000 Within 4 ] 2. To establish a permanent apparatus to build mass circulation for the Daily Worker, to make the pafty understand that every party member and every party committee and de- partment constitutes this apparatus, to elect competent Daily Worker representatives in | every unit, section, city, fractjon, workers’ organization and district, who, with the co- operation of the party, shall direct the work of building mass circulation. 8. To make the party mindful of the fact that in the coming period we can not depend upon any capitalist agency to distribute the || Daily Worker and that we will therefore have to establish our own distribution apparatus so as to be able to reach the largest masses of ‘workers at factory gates, in their homes, upon the streets, in meetings and at street railway stops, as workers go to and from work. from all workers’ organizations, the party, workers from the shops, Daily Worker readers, worker correspondents, etc. 5. The campaign to be so conducted as to clarify the role of the Daily Worker as the central organ of the party and the mass organ for the workers. To bring about an standing that the entire party is the buildi apparatus for the Daily Worker, and that the central organ of the party goes hand in hand with every party task and campaign. | 6. To build a network of workers’ corres- pondents so that the Daily Worker will reflect the struggles of the workers in all industries. This constitutes the actual basis for mass cir- culation. ra To increase the size of the Daily Worker Worker | Seondly, the Daily Worker must be given a | FOR THE .. | CAMPAIGN PROGRAM TO BUIL A CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION AND A DETAILED OUTLINE OF TASKS TO SE" CURE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ADDITIONAL READERS IN SHOP, MINE AND MILL; IN WORKING CLASS NEIGHBORHOODS; AT DEMONSTRATIONS, STRIKES AND WORKERS’ MEETINGS m) nent be firmly welded together. i tremendous demonstrations of the workers on March 6 proved beyond all question that the possibilities for this achievement exist. We have our opportunity. " Now it depends upon us, upon our Party and its ever-widening circle of sympathizing workers, as to whether we shall make good. The Communist Party of the United States calls upon all workers, and especially upon all members of the party, to take up this task. A complete and} detailed] program! for the Daily Worker circulation drive follows: ery worker can find his piace in this pro- e so that all our forces\will be working together in organized fashion, thus multiplying our ctiveness a hundred times. This Daily Worker drive is an integral and ‘ost important part of all our work. It pro- vides us with the machine to build the revo- ionary trade unions. It is a chief weapon struggle against unemployment. It is sible force in the carrying through of the rising wave of strike struggles. It is the most important mass instrument in our struggle against imperialist war, and for de- fence of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. It is the bearer| of the zevolutionary class struggle to the masses. All together for a mighty push to the cir- culation of the Daily Worker! Make the Daily Worker the mass paper of | the workingclass! | CENTRAL COMMITTEE, | COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE US.A. the Campaign Ist to June Ist: bscribers e Orders Organizations and Sympathizers to Finance Six Months From April 1. to six pages at the earliest possible moment so that all events, nationally and inter- nationally, of importance to the revolutionary workingclass may be given space. 8. Upon the basis of ‘A increase to six pages, to give adequate consideration and space to the situation in each party, district, and to the tasks and struggles in. these dis- tricts by giving each district a page once a week for its activities and achievements. 9. To make the Daily Worker the agitator, educator and organizer of the workingclass and especially its most exploited sections, the un- skilled and semi-skilled workers in the basic industries and the Negro workingclass masses; to make the Daily Worker the ideological leader of these workers in this period of struggles, outbreaks and mass demonstrations, capitalist crisis and unemployment. 10. To secure leadership for the party over broad masses of workers upon the basis of a mass circulation for the Daily Worker. Mass circulation for the Daily Worker is the basis for a mass Communist Party; will win valuable contacts for the party in shops, mines and mills; will increase the number of shop nuclei; will strengthen and increase the party frac- tions; will build the TUUL and revolutionary labor unions; will strengthen the party in its fight} against rationalization, unemployment, the war danger, the attacks of the capitalist government, the right danger, social reformism and social fascism. It will increase the party influence among the Negro masses. It will mobilize masses of workers for defense of the Soviet Union. ‘Party Mobilization and Organization for the Campaign 1, A special committee of three named hy the Central Committee of the party, namely, a member of the secretariat, the editor and the management of the Daily Worker to be respon- sible for the suctes8 of the campaign nationally. 2. There shall be called at once special meetings of the district buros to discuss the Daily Worker campaign, to concretely apply it to the district and assign tasks. The dis- trie: buro shall be responsible for the cam- paign in each district and the section commit- tee in each section of the party. 4, Establishing a permanent Daily Worker supporting apparatus composed of delegates %. The district buro shall name a special campaign committee composed of the district jaily Worker representative and two or more leading members of the district buro. This committee must be authoritative, supervise the campaign in the district headquarters city, give especial attention to the organization of the campaign in the smaller cities in the district, the factory towns, 4, The section’ campaign committee shall consist of the section Daily Worker representa- tive and members of the section committee. 5. The district buro must take the necessary organizational steps to clarify the campaign to all section organizers and committees, to all suggest a meeting of all functionaries for this Daily Worker shall be first upon the agenda party unit functionaries, to all fraction secre- purpose. All meetings of the section com- Wherever party members or conimittees as- mass circulation for the Daily Worker shall be a letter to be used as a basis for discussion. principal point for discussion and action. taries, to the entire party membership. We mittees shall have the campaign on the agenda. semble, the political importance of securing considered. The district agitprop shall prepare 6, At the next meeting of all party units, it all party unit meetings throughout the dura- ation of the campaign, building the Daily Worker shall receive major consideration. 7. It must be especially emphasized that every party member must participate in this campaign. There is a tendency among com- rades who read our language press to give support only to their language paper. Every ‘party member, no matter what language he speaks, must help build the Daily Worker. 8. The district buro must take immediate steps to insure the selection of Daily Worker representatives in all\party units, sections, where the party has membership, fractions, workers’ organizations, shops, mines and mills. This apparatus shall be the basis of an exten- sive distributing machinery, which in coopera- tion with the party membership, must take charge constantly broadening the mass circu- lation, and must-be so efficiently organized as to substitute any capitalist agency that may, during the coming period, refuse to handle the Daily Worker. 9. The district buro shall review the ac- tivities of the district Daily Worker representa- tive and all section representatives, and decide upon their capability for this important post, naming more capable representatives where necessary. 10. There shall be called immediately in every city the broadest possible Daily Worker conference. This conference shall constitute a permanent supporting and building group. It shall be composed of delegates from all cate- gories of workers’ organizations, representa- tives from the party, labor unions or fractions thereof, delegates from the shops, from the YCL, Pioneers, women’s committees, TUUL groups, labor sports clubs, ANLC, language clubs and fraternal organizations. The confer- ences shall elect a committee of action to func- tion throughout thecampaign. Definite\ duties tions be built and consolidated, and the whole i must be assigned to all organizations partici- pating in the conference and to the conference as a whole, 11. The district organizer, organization sec- retary, agitprop director shall make the Daily Worker campaign part of their day-to-day work. 12. Districts must report weekly upon the progress of the campaign to the party center and the Daily Worker. 18. The district shall issue Daily Worker Campaign Bulletins to assist in mobilizing the membership for the campaign and to report the | achievements. 14. Worker correspondence shall be de- veloped from every large factory where possi- ble, and in all cases from each industry in the | district, Worker correspondents shall hold con- | ferences together with Daily Worker readers, toward the end that mine, mill and factory news may be increased and distribution and sale of the Daily Worker in the industries may be broadened. Program of Tasks in the Campaign to Secure Mass Circulation for the Daily Worker. 1. To assure success for the campaign, the tasks must be assigned and concretized so as to drive every party member, party functionaries and leading committees, workers’ organiza- tions and sympathetic workers, Daily Worker readers, into immediate activity. Into Shop, Mine and Mill With the Daily Worker 2. The slogan, “Turn the Face of the Party Towards the Industries” must again be empha- sized. Distribution and sale of the Daily Worker at factory gates will compel the party to work among the masses in the industries, and will secure valuable shop contacts for the party. (a) The party in each city must select one or more of the basic xnd most important in- dustries and concentrate a sufficient force at the factory gates to assure a complete free distribution for a number of days. (b) Towards the close of the free distribution period it must be announced to the workers that the Daily Worker will be sold regularly at the factory gates for three cents a copy. (c) The party shall then secure newsboys, unemployed work- ers, members of the YCL or Pioneers, to sell the Daily Worker at the factory gate each day without interruption. (d) Where necessary a percentage of the income can be given to those engaged in this work. (e) Articles on shop conditions shall appear in the Daily Worker during the period of distribution, (The influence of the party among the steel workers, miners, auto workers, transportation workers, packing house workers, war industry workers must be very much increased. In not a single industry in any city has the Daily Worker a decisive number of readers. We must win these workers for the party and its poli- cies. Making them regular readers of the Daily Worker will accomplish this.) Red Sundays to Establish Carrier Routes 8. During the two months’ intensive drive for mass circulation the party in each city shall mobilize its entire.membership for three Daily Worker red Sundays. One or more sections of the city which are densely populated with factory workers shall be selected (depending upon the number of comrades mobilized) and a concerted attempt made to establish carrier routes, the subscriber to pay 18 cents per week “after each week’s delivery. (a) Distribute the Daily Worker free for a few days before a Red Sunday. (b) Upon the red Sunday concentrate enough comrades in the workingclass section to make absolutely sure that at least 100 weekly subscribers will be secured. (c) Secure an unemployed worker, a newsboy, a member of the Pioneers or YCL, a member of the party, to carry these papers every day to the workers’ homes and to make collection at the end of the week. (d) Pay the ' worker who carries these papers one-third of the weekly collections. Monthly Payment Plan for Most Exploited Workers 4, During this period of unemployment and rationalization and because we must immedi- ately secure thousands of new readers from among the unskilled and semi-skilled workers in the basic industries, it becomes necessary to adjust payments for mail subscribers so that even the lowest paid worker can take our cen- tral organ. At factory gates, in working class neighborhoods, at ‘workers’ meetings, in work- ers’ organizations, the party must concentrate forces to secure mail subscribers at the rate of 50 cents per month or $1.00 for two months. (a) Secure subscribers at this monthly pay- ment rate everywhere. You will find it an easy task. (b) We will place these subscribers upon our mailing list and they will get the Daily Worker by mail every day. (c) To keep these subscribers thruout the year will necessitate the organization of a force of ‘party members who will go to these workers’ homes several days before the month is out, to collect another 50 cents for the next months’ subscription. (d) In many instances, after taking the Daily Worker for a month, the subscriber will pay for a longer subscription if asked, $1.00 for the next two months, thereby reducing the task of monthly collections. 5. Half-yearly ang yearly subscriptions by mail must not be undér-emphasized. It is these subscriptions which give the Daily Worker im- mediate funds to continue regular publication. The offer of free books will continue to apply to long term mail subscriptions during this campaign. Developing Circulation by Street and Meeting Bales 6. A group of newsboys (Pioneers, sons and daughters of party members, unemployed workers, young and old) shall be organized for a steady sale of the Daily Worker upon the streets, from house-to-house, wherever workers are to be found, at three cents per copy. Each seller shall be assigned a certain section of t city so as to avoid conflict in sales, and receive a portion of the income from sales 7. A decided shortcoming in every city, ir every district, has been the failure to introduce and sell the Daily Worker at party mass mect- ings, demonstrations, at meetings of other workers’ organizations, during This shortcoming must be Timetnes remedied. (a) The Daily Worker must be spoken for from the platform of every meeting. (b) The party must cooperate with the Daily Worker representative in selling the Daily Worker before the meeting convenes and after i - journs, (c) The comrades in the meeting, sell- ing the Daily Worker, must call out the main struggle story appearing in the issue being suld. (d) A large sign must be posted in the meeting hall containing appropriate Daily Worker slogans and calling upon all worker: to read it regularly. (e) At street and factory gate demonstrations, the slogans carried by the workers must include Daily Worker slogans. (f) Whenever a strike occurs, whether under TUUL leadership or A. F. of L., a comrade shall be assigned at once to report the strike for the Daily Worker and fore shall be assigned to sell the Daily Worker to the strikers, as well as to workers in the same in- dustry in other shops, and to workers in all industries. 8. A specific attempt must be made to place the Daily Worker upon more newsstands, pecially those in the neighborhood of industries and those at points where workers get on and off street cars, elevated trains, subways, as they go to and from work. 9. Comrades must engage in individual ef- forts to widen our circle of readers. You must talk to the workers who work with you and who live near by about the Daily Worker. You should individually order a bundle of five or ten copies daily, and sell them in the shop or in your neighborhood. You should secure sub- scriptions from these same workers after you have sold them single copies for a number of days. Quota of Every Party Member is $5.00 10. Every party member is assigned the task of getting $5 in Daily Worker subscriptions and contributions. Getting subscriptions must be emphasized. Every party member can secure | three or four $1 two-month subscriptions (in fact it should be no task to secure ten $1 subs, or twenty 50-cent subs). However, to reac h the $5 goal, which every party member must reach, some contributions from workers in the shops, in workers’ neighborhoods and organiza- tions, from sympathizers can be secured. A special Daily Worker Building Stamp will be issued to all comrades securing $5 or more | in subscriptions and contributions and no party member will be considered in actual good standing in the party, no party member will haye performed his full Communist tasks in this period of intensifying class struggles, un- less he has this special stamp in his member- ship book. The closest check-up on the activi- ties of each member must be made at the regular nuclei meeting. » Organize a Delegate Conference for Support Immediately 11. Daily Worker Building and Supporting Conferences shall be called in every city, es- pecially in the larger cities, They shall con- sist of representatives from every sympathetic workers’ organization (fraternal, workers’ clubs, TUUL groups, ILD, WIR, ANLC, women’s organizations, YCL, Pioneers, labor unions, sports fractions, the party). These conferences shall be permanent. The first con- ference shall be held before the end of April. The tasks of these conferences shall be: (a) Mobilize the membership belonging to all these organizations for financial support for the Daily Worker by holding bazaars, concerts, dances, motion picture showings, etc. (b) Or- ganizations that belong to the conference shall pledge themselves to contribute a certain amount each year in support of the Daily Worker. (c) All organizations shall pledge themselves to sell the Daily Worker at all meet- ings, organization and open meetings. (d) Every organization belonging to the conference shall name a Daily Worker representative who shall constantly campaign for subscribers among the members of the organization. (e) Advertising meetings and income affairs held by organizations belonging to the conference shall be stressed. (f) Funds derived from af- fairs and contributions shall be sent to the Daily Worker to finance mass distributions to develop mass circulation, so as to acquaint an even larger number of workers with our Com- munist organ. 12. An income affair to secure funds for the Daily Worker must be held in every city where the party has members*in the month of April or May. The selling of admissions for this affair to all svorkers’ organizations must be used also as a means of organizing the Daily Worker Building and Supporting Conference. The first general task of the conference shall be to hold a picnic in June or July. Comrades shall at once be assigned to visit and address all workers’ organizations on the ng an immediate dona- Daily Worker, requ tion for its support. 13. Each party district shall be assigned quotas for the campaign and each district must The district campaign com- mittee must in turn assi h city, each unit, each fraction. attain its quota. gn quotas to each sec- tion, ea Revolutionary Competition Must be Inaugurated 14. Revolutionary competition shall reach a higher campaign than in the level during t Upon the basis of the quota assigned each district, district must challenge district for completion of the quota by June 1st. More important than this, however, is the gain ing of new readers by the thousands among the steel workers, auto workers, transportation workers, etc. memt ip drive. coal miners, textile workers, Therefore, Pittsburgh, for example, must chal- lenge Chicago to get more mail subseribers and sell more papers at the steel mills in the Pitts- burgh district than Chicago secures in the Calumet region. Youngstown can challenge | Buffalo. Toledo can challenge Pontiac or Flint to get more readers among the auto workers. Several textile cities, several packing house cities, can challenge each other, etc. Every New Member a Reader 16. The party language press shall give full cooperation in this campaign. It shall give all its readers to nodes stand that even msthough they read only culty in Ane saoaiae or because they are unable to subscribe for both the Daily Worker and their language press, these readers and party members should never-the-less enter the campaign to get Daily Worker readers from English-speaking workers in their shops and neighborhoods. Unless the many comrades who read the language press enter this campaign, the campaign will only be partially successful. Plan for District Editions 17. We must return to a six-page paper at the earliest possible moment. Any six dis- tricts with 300 members or more and such workers’ mass organizations as desire to avail themselves of the Daily Worker for their cam- paigns and publicity, can make this possible. We make this initial and tentative proposal, which will be subject to change should other | costs have to be added. (a) We will print the entire issue of the Daily Worker in six pages and give the district 8,000 copies for sale and distribution upon a The quota for each district falls into three divisions: 1. Securing 10,000 new mail subscribers for | the Daily Worker. Mail subscribers are those who receive the paper by mail at their homes each day. Subscribers secured at the rate of 50 cents payment per month, or $1.00 for two | months, quarterly, half yearly and yearly sub- scribers, are all mail subscribers, and shall be credited to the qrst division in the quota table appearing below. 2. Securing 20,000 new orders for bundles. To this second division in the quota table shall be credited all copies sold in the district at three cents each at factory gates, from house- to-house, at workers’ meetings, on the streets, on newsstands, etc., as well as all copies carried - to workers’ homes by means of the carrier sys- tem at the rate of 18 cents per week. 3.° Securing $15,000 for the purpose of financing mass circulation in new areas, is- suing special editions, helping to support the Daily Worker, reduce the deficit, so that it may Lenin Said: “A newspaper is not merely a collective propagandist, a collective agitator, it is also a collective organizer. It can be compared to a scaffolding around a building in construction; it marks the contours. of the structure, and facilitates communication between the builders, permitting them to distribute the work, and to view the common results achieved by the or- ganized labor. “I insist that we start establishing real con- tacts with the aid of a common newspaper, as a single, regular enterprise, which will sum- marize the results of all the diverse forms of activity and thereby stimulate our comrades to march forward untiredly along all the in- numerable paths which lead to the revolution. “Such a newspaper would become a part of an enormous pair of smith’s bellows that would D MASS CIRCULATION Daily 32 Worker remittance, in advance, from the district of $75.00. (b) The district will receive one page for its district news and a leading story on page one. (c) The district can mobilize 300 comrades and workers to sell the 3,000 copies at three cents each, or 300 comrades can pay in advance the sum of 30 cents each, and secure a return of $90.00 for the 3,000 copies, (d) Advertising secured for such a special edition to be subject to adjustment with the Daily Worker. (e) Every district with 300 members or more should order at least two of such special editions during this campaign to help build mass circulation in the district, (£) It must be noted that the special district edition will be the national edition as well, and besides activizing the district members and carry | the district issues and campaigns to the work- ers in the district, it will inform the workers and party members nationally regarding the activities arid achievements of the district. (g) All material must be collected and edited by the district. A special charge must be made for pictures, If six districts will enter into this arrange- ment, we can return to six pages every day at once, make it more possible to secure mass cir- culation in the districts because the Daily Worker will reflect the struggles in the dis- trict, better activize the party membership na- tionally because every district will be informed of the activities of the larger districts. Increased Advertising 18. Quick attention must be given to in- sing advertisers in the Daily Worker. Comrades and other workers must pool their er buying power in order to secure advertisements from shop keepers, cooperatives, book shops, dentists, etc. Mass meetings held by the party or other workers’ organizations, income affairs, ete, held in any city in the district, should be advertised in the Daily Worker. Upon the basis of circulation in the larger cities and the in- crease in circulation which this campaign will bring, advertising in the Daily Worker will mobilize wofkers for all meetings, demonstra- tions, affairs. 19. The Daily Worker must, during the period of the campaign, continue to improve in content and approach to the masses of workers. It must issue a number of special editions (May Day, etc.) addressed to the workers in th basic and war industries, connecting thei: problems and struggles with the tasks an: campaigns of the party. Workers’ corresp< dence from the shops must be increased anu improved. The Daily Worker shall issue all printc material necessary to carry on the campaig . subscription lists, posters, leaflets, ete. T management and editorial departments sh devote themselves energetically to the ca paign and the progress of the campaign sh receive day-to-day and adequate space in 1 Daily Worker. Write in Support of Campaign 20. Leading party members, district ganizers, the national and district agitprop a organization departments, editors of par language papers, comrades working in + basic industries, Daily Worker representativ shall write articles to help activize the ca paign and clarify the role of the Daily Work As the campaign progresses, these artic must be coneretized by citing achievements ¢. aiding in the direction of the campaign. Campaign Quota for Each District appear regularly. All contributions from wo ers’ organizations, from sympathizers, affairs, etc., will be credited to this div the quota table. tr New Mail New Bundle Finan District Subscribers Orders Supp 1, BORON, ives sch: 600 1,000 $ 2. New York ..... 1,500 7,000 4, 8, Philadelphia . 800 ~—-:1,600 4. Buffalo .. 400 600 5. Pittsburgh . 500 = 1,000 6. Cleveland 900 1,200 ‘ 7. Detroit .. 1,400- 1,800 z 8. Chicago . 1,500 2,000 1 9. Minneapolis . 600 800 10. Kansas City ... 200 400 11. Agricultural ... 120 200 12. Seattle eee 280 560" 13. California . 700 1,000 1 15. Connecticut 500 640 16. South ......6.. 100 200 Total ........ 10,000 © 20,000 $15. blow every spark of class struggle and p lar indignation into a general conflagra Around such a newspaper an army of t warriors would systematically gather and ceive their training. “The mere functions of distributing a n paper will help to establish real contacts.” Keep This Program! Hang It in Your Headquart All unit, section and district commi should keep this program for constant r: ence during the campaign and after. 1 Worker representatives must use it as a ) for their day-to-day tasks, It should be hung upon the wall of all trict, section and unit headquarters, as wel» in the [ROM arters of all srmnathese wor organizatio es