The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1930, Page 3

eS a* DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1930 £ Page Three = BOOST DAILY WORKER CIRCULATION TO 60,000! Objectives 60,000 Circulation by January 1st, all papers sold, paid for. Six-page Daily Worker by December Ist through: Paid up subscriptions and renewals repre- senting 5,000 new readers, 10,000 additional readers in factory, house- to-house and newsstand sales. By January Ist, paid-up subscriptions and renewals, representing 10,000 new readers. 20,000 additional readers in factory, house- to-house and newsstand sales. Daily Worker apparatus built of steel in every District of the Party. Wash out the permanent financial crisis of the Daily Worker by paid-in-advance sub- scriptions and paidup bills by Districts. 13,000 New Readers for Daily Worker On Aprii 1st the Daily Worker began a drive for $25,000 and 60,000 readers. $19,000 was obtained in denations. 10,000 new readers were obtained in donations. 13,000 new readers were mencing the campaign for 60,000 readers. We aim also at solving the financial problem of the Daily Worker, by paid-in-advance subscrip- tions. . The table published herewith gives a picture of the Daily Worker circulation. It shows the exact situation today and what it was five months ago. It shows what hs happened in each district, where house-to-house routes and factory sales have been built up, where new subs have been put on. Here is the table: Circulation Increase by Districts : ae bal da ba Gh 8% BEERS 6 443° 704 1147 87 1432 5623 7055 26 3 Philadelphia 517 299 816 826 1624 2450 200 4 Buffalo 154 265 «6417 «216 «6453 «669 60 5 Pittsburgh .. 315 83 398 «494 281 V5 95 6 Cleveland ... 544 559 1103 913 1155 2068 87 7 Detroit 700 1812 2512 1085 2811 3896 55 8 Chicago .... 907 1115 2022 1292 4497 5789 186 9 Minneapolis . 233 29 «262 348 «474 822 214 10 Kansas City 164 59 «223 «4223 «441 «664 «(198 11 Agricultural 66 43° 109 «184 «273 «407 «(273 12 Seattle ...... 143° (864-507) 277) 898 «1170 «131 43 California ...469 307 776 743 (1041: «1784-130 15 Connecticut .. 98 250 348 211 213 424 22 16 South . 52 159218 68 90 «158 —25 17 Birming! 28 32 60 97 «#129 «226 © «(277 19 Denver ...... — _- - 82 38° «6120 =—«120 Dnorganized .... 26 _- 26 a _- 77 (196 Dnorg. South .. 28 - 28 _- 83 83 (196 Total... .5163 10879 16042 8961 20828 29784 86 “Bundle orders are papers sold before factories, to house at newsstands and on the streets. Circulation Increases by Cities house z z H i CITIES 3 5 ez 4a * § ray | it aif “we Rf & oh Bo Bf AS Boston ........ 66 99 165 71 422 493 198 New York City 152 4904 5056 906 4608 5514 9 Buffalo .....:.. 40 350 390 45 235 280 —28 Philadelphia 310 284 544 440 1160 1600 194 Pittsburgh It 78 «189134 23637095 Youngstown um & 39 «6-250 8B CANT, 200 leveland . (Wl 21 472 «(3828 «474 «802 | 143 Detroit 1748 1279 861 2568 3420 168 Gary 9 20 24 234 258 1190 Milwaukee W7R 259 82 260 34282 Bt. Louis . 578% 102 1k eG Chicago 759 1278 783 3239 3972 210 Minneapolis .... 24 72 96 48 326 374 289 Bt. Paul 2 — 2 Ss 2 ME — Kansas City ..., 11 12 23 17 26 43 87 Beattle . 36 242 «278 «= 6k BTL 735164 Portland 22 47 «69 «48 «161 209202 Los Angeles .... 120 183 253 266 432 698 175 Ban Francisco 89 205 294 128 195 323 9 Oakland 60 76 «146 «690 «275 «365150 Denver . a) Or SC) “Bundle orders are papers sold before factories, house to house, at newsstands, at meetings and on the streets. Each week during this campaign, a table similar to the above showing the gains in cir- culation in each District, will be printed in the Daily Worker. There has only been a faint stirring among the Districts toward building a Daily Worker apparatus. With any sort of organization within the Districts, the burden of 60,000 circulation would be a feather on the shoulder. Where is the District which cannot double its circulation with a functioning ma- hine? Yet, this alone would practically bring the 60,000 circulation. Paid Subs Will Wipe Out Financial Problem Why must the Party and the Daily Worker forever be handicapped with the heavy finan- cial burden of the Daily Worker when paid subs will solve the problem? Here’s how: It costs $172,000 to publish the Daily Worker for a year. 25,000 Paid-in-advanee subscribers would bring into the Daily Worker, net, about $112,000. Advertising income today is $45,000 a year. With increased circulation this could be raised to $65,000 a year. This would be a yearly income of $177,000, enough to pay all the expenses of the Daily Worker and have sufficient over to sprgad the Daily by free distribution. Districts! Immediate Mobilization! There must be immediate mobilization in all Districts to set in motion the Daily Worker campaign. Tasks must be assigned so as to drive every Party member, Party functionaries and leading committees, workers’ organiza- tions, readers, into immediate activity. 1. Special meetings of District bureaus shall be called to apply the campaign to the District. 2. City-wide, District-wide conferences of Daily Worker representatives and all Party functionaries must be called immediately. 8. The District agitprop must immediately prepare a letter for discussion at unit and sec- tion meetings. The District bureau must send out letters, begin issuance of a weekly bulletin, tour speakers so that the circulation drive is forcibly presented and fully explained to sec- tion organizers and committees, all Party functionaries, fraction secretaries and the en- tire Party membership. 4. In every city the broadest possible Daily Worker conference must be called to constitute itself into the Red Army of the Daily Worker. It shall be composed of delegates from all workers organizations, delegates from the shops, language clubs, etc. These conferences shall be permanent. The tasks of each organ- ization represented shall be to mobilize mem- bership for financial support in the form of paid-in-advance subscriptions: to pledge to sell the Daily Worker at all meetings; to name a Daily Worker representative who shall con- stantly campaign for subscribers among the members of the crganizations: organize for sale of the Daily Worker before factories and from house to house. 5. The District bureau shall name a special campaign committee composed of the Daily Worker representative and two or more lead- ing members of the District Bureau. This Com- mittee will direct the campaign. 6. Section campaign committee shall con- sist of the Daily Worker representative and members of the Section committee, 7. At the next meeting of all Party units the Daily Worker shall be first on the agenda and principal point for discussion and action. At all the Party Unit meetings building the Daily Worker shall receive major considera- tion. LURED TO PORTLAND BY BOSSES, JOBLESS SET UPON BY POLICE Statement by the Central Committee of the Communist Party, U.S. A. lies working class and its vanguard, the Communist Party, face the bitterest onslaught of the capitalist bosses and their government. They are determined to éarry through their drive to load the crisis burdens on the workers’ backs. Mass lay-offs, heavy wage cuts and a more killing speed-up are on the order of the day. War preparations are being rushed. The anti-Soviet drive is gaining momentum, with the United States taking the lead. They are making every effort to maintain their own profits by more ruthlessly exploiting the working and farming masses both at home and in the colonies. As the struggle against this brutal exploitation develops, the fighting workers are met by the most murderous attacks of the bosses’ police and gangsters. The A. F. of L. and “socialist” bureaucrats, while still pretending to represent the workers, actually are found on the side of the bosses in every fight. Threats of even greater boss terror, with the collaboration of these reformists, are daily being made. Yet the workers, by the pressure of a steadily lowered standard of living, by poverty and starvation, are more and more taking up the fight against wage cuts, against speed- up, and especially for immediate unemployment insurance. Hand in hand with these struggles for their immediate demands will go the struggle against the murderous terror attacks of the bosses, against imperialist war, for the defense of the Soviet Union and for other political demands. This faces the Communist Party with the immediate task of strengthening its leader- ship by deepening the rovts of the Party in the shops and factories and among the un- employed, by the building of the unemployed councils and the Trade Union Unity League, as well as by the building of the other mass organizations workers. In the center, and as a means of carryin building of the Daily Worker. The wide ci Daily Worker, is a prerequisite for every P. Committee, therefore, in order to enable ou leader of the working class in the gigantic cl and instructs every leading committee and ev as given below to “Boost the circulation of t of the Negro and white g through all these campaigns, stands the reulation of the Party’s central organ, the arty campaign and activity. The Central r Party to fulfill its task as the revolutionary ass battles immediately before us, calls upon ery Party member to rally behind the drive he’Daily Worker to 60,000!” as a major phase of, and as a means of strengthening, all other Party activities. CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C. P., U. S. A. ail Pg, Me Day Oni WAN ‘AloRKER ACRES orca Glese UNITED STATES OF Must Have Reports -to Build Machine Districts must make full reports weekly to the Party Centre and to the Daily Worker. Only by this picture can weaknesses be cor- rected and best circulation methods flashed from one District to another. Districts must also be held responsible for building up a regular service in short, snappily written news items, news pictures of the class struggle, newspaper mats, etc., for the Daily Worker. Short interesting news items and pictures of the class struggle in the Districts must be sent. Stories should be short, re- written and boiled down two or three times before they are sent to the Daily Worker. Workers Correspondence Must Pull Circulation Better systemization in tying up worker correspondence with distribution and sale of the paper will bring in a mass of new circula- tion. The pctential pull of each item must be realized. Short stories should appear two or three times a week on big factories where sales are made. A network of workers correspond- ence must ‘be built so that the paper will re- flect the struggle of the workers in all in- dustries, Worker correspondents in cities and districts must organize with Daily Worker readers into Red Army outposts of the Daily Worker, They must order regular bundles of the Daily {Worker at one cent a copy, to be sold before the factories about which stories are written. Individual worker correspondents, even in isolated sections must broaden the number of readers of the Daily Worker by sending in orders for bundles at one cent a copy. Comrades Speaking Foreign Languages Must Join Fight There are a great many Communist daily and weekly papers published in the United States in foreign languages. But the Daily Worker is the only Communist daily published in English, the native tongue of the country whose capitalist government must be over- thrown. It is the central organ of the Com- munist Party. It must have a mass circulation before capitalism can be overthrown. Every Communist, no matter what his ative language, must bend every effort to increase the circulation of the Party’s central organ. The tendency of some Party members to sup- port the paper only of their own language must be shattered. Workers must have the Daily Worker for the younger generation. The language papers must print editorials and pub- lish all material which is sent out from the Daily Worker. Agents of all the Party papers must also obtain Daily Worker subscriptions. Shoulder to Shoulder With All Partv Drives The Daily Worker must be used to the great- est possible extent in the final wave of the Election Drive. The lists of names obtained in putting Communist candidates on the ballot must be used to get subscribers for the Daily Worker and building house-to-house routes. The Daily Worker must share honors with whatever campaign the Party is carrying on. Paid-in-Advance Mail Subs to Solve Daily Problem The only way of wiping out the chronic financial crisis once and for all is by paid- in-advance circulation. | Go INTO | THE FACToRY ay Factory qa Units nrust take full responsibility in build- ing paid subscriptions for the Daily. Mach Party member must spend a definite time each week getting new subs and renewals. All fifty cent monthly subs must be visited each month and fifty cents collected and sent to the Daily Worker. Every past-due subscriber must be visited. Thousands of one-month subscriptions can be obtained from the unskilled and semi- skilled workers in the basic industries at fifty cents. Even the lowest paid workers can take the Daily Worker at this rate. Factory Gate Sales for Mass Circulation The sale of the Daily Worker at the factory gates has shown a tremendous growth in some sections and inidcates that this is the key to mass circulation. This method has succeeded where Party Units have definitely concen- trated on certain factories and where each Party member has taken a turn once or twice a week to sell the papers. It must be def- initely understood that no member of the Par- + ty, no member of the Young Communist League unless specifically excused is in good standing unless he sells at least twenty-five copies of the Daily Worker before factory gates once a week. The two cents profit from the sale of the Daily Worker will help finance Unit activities. Units must take responsibility and order pa- pers directly from the Daily Worker .at one cent a copy. Must Build House-to-House Routes Every Unit must fight it out on house-to- house delivery routes. This system has regis- terel great successes in some sections and failed miserably in others. Where routes have been maintained by a definite struggle, excel- lent results have been achieved. Money must be collected each week and papers paid for regularly. One of the best ways is to give a route of one or two hundred subseribers to an unem- ployed comrade and let him make two cents of the three cents he collects for each paper, this work helping to support him. When this is not done, Units and Sections must concen- trate on the problem of collecting the money at the end of the week, to insure continuance of the route. Shock troops can be moved from sections and even Districts to maintain the routes. Responsible comrades must be put in charge of collecting the money. The Party in each city must be immediately mobilized for a series of Red Sundays. Sec- tions of the city densely populated with fac- tory workers must be selected and new carrier routes established subscribers to pay 18 cents a week after each week’s delivery. The necessity of this system of circulation is obvious to any Communist who realizes that capitalist circulating agencies may fail us soon. Valuable contacts are also made. No city can allow this system to be discarded because of refusal to face and solve the difficulties, Report Any Meeting Where Daily Is Not Sold The Daily Worker must be sold at Party mass meetings, demonstrations, at meetings of other workers’ organizations, during strikes, etc. Rank and file workers must report to the | | | Daily Worker any meeting where Dailies are not sold. The Daily Worker must be spoken for from the platform of every meeting, sold before the meeting convenes and after it adjourns, Come rades must call out the main struggle story. A large sign must be posted in the meeting hall containing appropriate Daily Worker slogans. At street and factory gate demonstra- tions slogans must include Daily Worker slo- gans. Whenever a strike occurs a comrade shall be assigned at once to report the strike | for the Daily Worker and forces shall be as- signed to sell the paper. 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. A specific attempt must be made to place the Daily Worker upon more news-stands, especially those in the neighborhood of indus- tries and at*points where workers get on and off street cars, elevated trains, subways, as they go to and from work. New Heights for Red Competition Revolutionary competition must reach a new high level du campaign. rict must challenge Di must challenge city, Units, individuals must challenge each other. Each Party Member Must Get $5 in Subs Every Party member must get $5 in sub- scriptions as his share in the campaign. This can be made up in his own subscription or in subscriptions he obtains from fellow-workers, A special Daily Worker stamp will be issued to all comrades securing $5 or more in sube scriptions, and no Party member will be con- sidered in good standing in the Party unless he has this special stamp. The stamps will be issued through the Party financial secretaries, Every Party member must also sell 25 conies of the Daily Worker each week before face tories or from house to house, District Quotas by December 1 District Subs Bundles* Subs Bundles 1 (Boston) ....300 500 10 (Kansas City) 75 180 2 (New York) 750 3500 11 (Agricultural) 60 100 3 (Philadelphia) 400 800 12 (Seattle) ...140 280 4 (Buffalo) ....200 300 13 (Callfornia),..380 500 5 (Pittsburgh) .250 500 15 (Connecticut) 250 320 6 (Cleveland) ..450 600 16 (South) ..... 38 50 7 (Detroit) 8 (Chicago) 9 (Minneapolis! 17 (Birmingham) 25 50 19 (Denver) 4.98 7B ‘Bundle orders are pavers sold before factories, house to house, at newsstands and on the streets, City Quotas by December 1 Citles Subs Bundles* Subs Bundles* Boston ....... 45 275 Chicago ... 475 2250 |New York City 600 3300 Minneapolis + 80 240 Philadelphia 800 St. Paul .. 3550 |Buftalo .. 150 Kansans City uo.. 15 20 | Pittsburgh 150 Seattle .. 440 | Youngstown 15 70 Portland 120 Cleveland 200 «6350 Los Angeles 165 «250 Detroit 600 1800 San Francisco .. 85 125 (Gary ... 15 150 Onkland 150 Milwaukee . 50° 175 Denver ww 50 St. Louis 65 «100 “Bundle orders are pavers sold before factories, house to honse, at newsstands and on the streets. ‘Paste This Program on the Wall All Unit, Section and District committees and builders of the Red Army of the Daily Worker should keep this program for constant reference during the campaign and after. Daily Worker representatives must use it as a guide for their day-to-day tasks. It should be hung upon the wall of all Dis- trict, Section and Unit headquarters, as well as in the headquarters of all sympathetic worke ers organizations. (eer INTO 'Y_SIMMIEWALKER Police Terror ‘Must Be Met by people working for your cause who are a hundred fold more effective without direct affiliations. P.S.—More flies are caught with molasses than with words not so sweet. Wouldn’t the end justify the FREED LEADERS BOSTON, Oct. 20. — As a part Boston Needle Union Bazaar Oct. 23, 24, 25, SIXTY GROUPS Workers Responding to Communist Program and Organizing for Bitter Struggle (By a Worker Correspondent) Multnomah County Jail, Portland, Oregon. With thousands of unemployed in Portland and the north- west the bosses here are conducting a campaign to further cut down the already miserable conditions by enticing a greater army of workers. Using the methods of the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- merce, the Portland Chamber of Commerce, the Portland body has inaugurated the “On to Oregon” campaign. Due partly to seasonal migration and largely to the lying prosperity GER PEND eo ER propaganda thousands of work- ers come to Portland in ex- pectation of finding a way out of their suffering by landing a job. True to the tradition of how best to show the unemployed the bless- ings of “prosperity” the police of the “Rose City” have made special preparations to greet the incoming Jobless lured by the faked advertis- ‘ing. day special police de- tails are sent to pick up all workers who,because of an abundance of “prosperity” are forced to take the highway or freight. Added to this 50 special police have been added to the local force to aid in smothering the resistance and protests of the destitute work- ers. Charge “Vagrancy.” An article in the papers shows how successful the police terror has been to date. The press was pleased to state that the efficiency of the | police has resulted in almost as mnay arrests in September, 1980, as there were during the whole of 1929, and more than there were in 1928. The article ends with the benign hope that the winter months will show even greater success. It is significant to note that , most of the arrests were for the crime of “vagrancy.” Thirty, sixty, ninety days is the reward of the hapless worker, who, because the hands of the police and thus has opportunity to further enjoy democracy behind prison bars. The Communist Party and the Young Communist League have been lately increasing in strength and more workers are becoming sym- pathetic. It is no wonder then that the local police in tune with the U. S. “investigation” committee, and immigration authorities have chosen this time to attack the Party and try to outlaw it. The answer to these attacks will come from the workers, Organization is now the crying need of the workers to adequately cope with the attacks of the boss and police. The workers so far have responded with more enthusiasm and support. This, however, will amount to little unless along with it there is a corresponding increase in the organizational strength of the Party, the revolutionary trade unions and other militant organiza- tions of the workers. Workers must organize if they are going to stop the attacks upon them and fight for better conditions. he has ited too much, falls into —Fred Walker, YCL Organizer. Mass Struggle Dead Comrades You must realize the futility of raising your hands in defense against men not only bigger but armed and waiting for just one | Communist to raise a hand. So that they can start their skull-cracking tactics. Try to instill in your work- | ers the necessity of never indulging | in any act or sign that can be con- strued as being assault. Arms fold-! er, heads high, and when they are | | struck down, do not rise, Another angle to look at the re- sults of these exhibitions of brutal- ity is that they all work in favor of your Party. Thousands end thou- sands of sympathizers are made each time a thing like this occurs You cannot realize the friends you have made by fighting for the un der dog. There are hundreds o! thousands of people in this country today waiting for the wor d to come out openly. I mean American born citizens against whom these cos- sacks would have some doubt about assaulting. The converting goes on greater than you can imagine, the crooked | crowed in power realize it, hence their dumb methods to thwart some- thing that is as inevitable as to- morrow morning. Go on with the good work and be assured that there are plenty of means? And a more friendly at- titude toward “socialists,” who are in reality Communists without a spine work toward the ultimate goal. Oe dea Passive resistance amounts to a betrayal of the workers. The in- creasing police brutality and the physical violence must be met by , better organization of Defense corps. The “socialists” represent the interests of the small bourgeois and as such have nothing in com- mon with the revolutionary work- ers. Pressed between the big bour- geoisie and the workers, the small shopkeepers, manufacturers and professionals tried to gain leader- ship of the workers to fight big capital, but inevitably play big -capital’s game and betray the workers. The “commonwealth” of the “socialists,” the hopeless long- ing for the halcyon days of petite urgeois democracy—the early stage of capitalism. The Commu- nist Party, vanguard of the mod- ern proletariat, alone fights to make the working class the ruling class of society as the necessary transitional stage to a classless society. We must have a concrete show of the growing “conversion” of workers to the Communist plat- form, and that must be given November 4th. Show it by voting Communist! CALL FOR FIGHT Hoover Hunger Crew Is Bosses Attack (Continued from Page 1) The A. F. of L, joins all the fake “relief” bodies, whose only function is to divert the attention of the | workers and prevent them from fighting. It openly cheers the police who club the unemployed | workers, as did the delegates in the | Boston A. F. of L. Convention, The |leader of the socialist party, Nor- |man Thomas, was present in the | New York Board of Estimates Meet- jing, when the delegates of the un- |employed were murderously at- | tacked, witnessed the assault with |a smile, did not even raise his voice | against it, and afterward attacked the unemployed delegation in the press, justifying the assault of Sam Nessin. Both the A. F. of L. and socialist party, are the enemies of the unemployed workers. Our fight for the release of the | Unemployed Delegation arrested {March 6 is not ended. Comrade | Raymond is still in jail, and those of us released now are out of prison only conditionally and are subject to rearrest at the pleasure of the Parole Board. All over the country, rank and file workers in the unem- ployed movement are suffering jail sentences. Millions of workers must demand the unconditional re- of their regular drive to raise the $5,000 Organize and Strike Fund, the Needle Trades Industrial Union is running on Oct. 23, 24, and 25 its third annual bazaar at the Am- bassador Palace. lease of the unemployed leaders, The Communist Party, which first forced the issue of unemployment before the country, and which is the only leader of the fight for unem- ployment insurance, will continue this fight through the election cam- |paign now drawing to a close, and after it. We have no illusions about the elections, for the workers can win unemployment insurance only by a militant fight which will shake the capitalists and their grafting politicians in their seats of powers, But by voting for the Communist Party in this election, the workers will give another public demonstra- tion of their support for the Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, and their determination to fight for this bill, against the capitalists and their agents of the A. F. of L. and social- ist party, and will thereby strength- en the fighting organizations of the working class — the Communist Party and the trade unions of the T.U.U.L.—which are the only in- struments by which real practical benefits can now be won, and: the struggle against capitalism be car- ried to a higher stage. GREET FOSTER Jobless Leaders Speak to Delegates (Continued from Page 1) workers on the crowded streets of that section. At the Communist Party head- quarters, 50 East 13th St., where the jreleased Communist leaders finally |halted, an impromptu meeting took |place, Raymond Baker, organizer of |the Communist Party in New York \district, introducing Foster and |Amter to the delegations. Amter \ealled for revolutionary activity in the Communist campaign and for making the demonstration at Madi- son Square Garden a stepping stone for new vigorous struggles for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance | Bill and immediate unemployed re- | Hef. Foster, who like Amter was warmly cheered when introduced by |Baker, told of a hearty send-off | given to the two leaders by the pris- oners at Harts Island penitentiary early yesterday morning; the entire dormitory where he and Amter were quartered was on its feet 6 o’clocle in the morning to say goodby to their Communist mates. Particularly the Negro workers serving at Harts Island penitentiary, Foster said, were very much interested in the Communist leaders and in Commue nism.