The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1931, Page 3

D AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, _TUESD eg EPTE N.Y. LAUNDRY WORKERS COLLAPSE FROM HEAT AND TERRIFIC SPEED Consolidated Laundries Workers from $14 to $10 A Week Drivers Work from 72 Fined for All Lost (By a Worker NEW YORK.—The Consolidated Laundries, controlling a large number of plants in Brooklyn, New Jersey, Manhattan, has the most compiete slavery system that I have ever seen. The inside workers who are mostly Negroes are working under the most unsanitary and unhealthy conditions imagin- able. The heat is never below 180 degrees in the summer. Wages Cut In 1931 the company declared the same dividends for the parasites as they did in 1930, in spite of the fact that business was less in volume. How did they do this? By reducing | the week workers from $14 to $12 and $10. The better grade pound | workers only get three cents a pound instead of five cents as before. The systematic cheating at the scales would put the coal operators to shame. In order to mask their wrong do- ings the bosses have appointed fore- ladies whose job it is to spy on the workers, speed them up and report all: mistakes the workers make for which they are fined from 50 cents to $2. Exploitation of Drivers The drivers who have been mis- named the aristocrats of the laundry trade are really the most oppressed of all laundry workers. They must sign a contract whereby they cannot work for a different company until a year after they are fired or have In the summer time it is a com- mon sight to see women who have fainted from the heat lying about without any medical attention whatsoever. Peas Slash Wages of Week| to 90 Hours A Week; or Stolen Bundles Correspondent) Bronx and 90 degrees and is as high as quit the job. They must pay for their uniform which belongs to the boss. Their commission is held up if he is held up, although the company is protected by insurance. All allow- ances made to the customers for bun- dies lost or stolen are deducted from their pay. Everything that the driver takes out, he must sign for, but he is given no receipt for what he brings in. He loses when a customer refuses to pay. He works from 72 to 90 hours a week. He is fined for every little error that he makes. Will Organize ‘The bosses have bought off the Greater Laundry Workers Union, con- trolled by the gangster Larry Fay. Fay is paid to protect the bosses against the workers organizing to fight to better their conditions. A few militant workers in various plants have been looking to unite into a real union. We lack experience and leaders. We are looking to the Laundry ‘Workers Industrial Union to give us that leadership. Forced Labor on Texas Cotton Plantations (By a Worker Correspondent.) HOUSTON, Texas.—In front of the Municipal Employment Agency here there hangs a sign: “Wanted 5,000 cotton pickers, 40 cents per hundred pounds.” Negro and white workers pause and then walk away. The average picker cannot make over 50 or 60 cents a day. ‘The police come around arresting the workers and charging them with vagrancy. Men with families, old men, young men—it makes no dif- ference to the police—the bosses’ cot- ton must be picked. A pregnant woman, charged with vagrancy, faints in the court and is earried away. The vagrancy cases (mostly Negro workers) are disposed of in a mechanical manner: “Charge, vag—guilty—fine $15.” And the worker is thrown in jail. Forted Labor. A farmer comes in and pays the worker’s fine, on the condition that he works it out picking cotton. If the worker refuses he is sent to the city farm and is forced to pick cot- ton 14 hours a day, with an armed guard keeping him speeded up. Destroy Crops. ‘The large plantation owners say Seamen Get Wage-Cut on West Coast Line Portland, Ore. Daily Worker: I was a long time on the beach looking, for a ship. At last after starving a couple of months running from shipping office to shipping of- fice I landed one. It turned out to be one of those floating madhouses which sails out of Portland and is run by the State Steamship Co, Here are some of the conditions that I found on the madhouse. In- stead of carrying 8 able bodied sea- men and 2 ordinary seamen, they that there is too much cotton and are destroying part of their crops, and the tenant farmers (share-crop- pers) cannot afford to harvest their shares. Too much cotton—and hun- dreds of workers in the South are ragged and threadbare. The workers in the Soviet Union use their cotton, but the bosses here won't let the workers have enough for a pair of overalls and a shirt. The capitalist press says a lot about forced labor. The city, county and state penal farms in Texas and over the entire South produce large quantities of cotton, which is planted, grown and harvested by convict la- bor. Where does this cotton that is certainly produced by forced labor go? Fight Peonage! Peonage, actual slavery and all the most miserable living conditions ex- ist all over the South. The Unem- ployed Council in Houston is fighting the peonage system, the vagrancy laws and for real relief and unem- ployment insurance for the unem- ployed. Join the Unemployed Councils! Don’t starve—Fight! a. b’s from $62.50 a month to $57. The ordinaries were cut from $47 to $40. The forecastle of this madhouse was right next to the toilet and in the tropics the smell wes so bad that the crew had to sleep on the poop deck. ‘The food was so rotten that after the trip was over nearly half of the a Defense Dance, Saturday, Septem- | 600 7th St., Union City, N. J. Defense Dance for Political Prisoners, Union City, Sept. 19 HOBOKEN, N. J—The Leonardo Mezzina Branch of the International Labor Defense here has arranged for ber 19, at 8 p. m. at Cavalotti Hall, Proceeds of the affair will go for the fund for defense of political prisoners, especially those tne boss government seeks to deport to fas- cist Italy to certain death. HOSIERY WAGE CUT ES URGED BY MUSTEITES| (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to reduce wages. The Berkshire also knows from bitter experience that talk of wage-cutting or price- cutting automatically slows up buy-@ ing. “The federation, however, takes the position that no manufacturer or group ef manufacturers, how- ever powerful, can promise to keep up wages or prices under present conditions. As the psychologists say, such promises are “wish ful- fillments”, and not business under- takings which can be lived up to in the hard world of present day com- petition. “A manufacturer who promises no price cuts in an overdeveloped and unorganized industry is more courageous than intelligent. Wage- cutting and price-cutting will con- tinue despite all the professions of henevolent or boastful manufactur- ers until definite action is taken to alter those conditions which oblige manufacturers to engage in a struggle for busines’ under pres- ent cut-throat methods. “It will be necessary to stand- ardize labor costs and regulate pro- duction before hosiery prices can be stabilized and until the Reading manufacturers are willing to coop- erate in such a movement prices and wages will inevitably continue to be cut.” Nothing in the entire history of the labor betrayals by the A. F. of L. of- ficials equals this extraordinary spec- tacle of “non-union” bosses opposing the 35-50 per cent wage cut. propos- als of “union” officials. The Muste- ite-socialist hosiery misleaders actu- ally tel! the most vicious open shop mill in the industry, the Berkshire Knitting Mill, at Wyomissing, Pa., to cut wages. The opposition of the “non-union” mills to such organized wage cuts, of course, is based upon the fact that the cut will enable the “union” mills to compete with them. Already the Paterson local of the AFFFHW has rejected the wage cut agreement, according to the Women’s Wear Daily. One way to help the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,” | League of mass demonstrations of TORONTO, Canada.—Daily re-) ports come in to the National Office of the Canadian Labor Defense protest and resolutions of protest | sent in to the attorney-general of | Ontario against the attack upon the Communist Party and its leaders. Following the bomb outrage in| Winnipeg on Sept. 6, a huge mass demonstration and parade took | place in that city, where the workers showed their indignation in no un- certain terms and where mass pro- test resolutions were passed against the reign of terror on the part of the federal and provincial and city governments on the Communist Party. So great is the indignation of the rank and file of the organized work- ers against the boss attack that the ‘Trades and Labor Council of Winni- peg at a meeting held on Tuesday, Sept. 1, broke up in disorder because the social-fascist leaders expressed their approval of Bennett’s policies. The rank and file decided, by a great majority, to hold a special meeting, where this whole matter would be discussed, Disgust and anger were shown by the delegates at the actions of the reactionary leaders. Seamen In Protest. The seamen and dock workers of Port Arthur and Fort William, at a mass demonstration, forwarded to | the minister ef justice, Ottawa, and | to the attorney-general of Ontario a strongly worded protest resolution demanding. the withdrawal of the charges against the nine leading comrades and that the Communist Mass Protests Against Attack on Canada Communist Party Seamen, Farmers, Lumber Workers,| Miners Demonstrate Against Bennett Gov’t Terror Party, Workers’ Unity League and all other working-class organizations be allowed to operate without inter- ference, Not only the workers, but masses of poor farmers have voiced their protest against the action of the | authorities. In Athabaska, Alberta, | @ meeting of 130 farmers passed a resolution; at Nestor, Alberta, 250 farmers passed a similar resolution; | at Shepenge, Alberta, 120 farmers) passed a resolution, and in Vegreville, at a meeting of over 200 farmers, the | same protest was voiced. Altogether | over 40 resolutions were passed by the workers and poor farmers | throughout the Edmonton sub-dis. | trict, while a large mass meeting took place at the market square in| Edmonton protesting against the ar- | rests. Throughout British Columbia, a series of protests have been coming | in. In the Labor Temple, New West- | minster, B. ©., the workers of the | Barnett Saw Mill, a section of the | Lumber Workers’ Industrial Union passed a resolution of protest. The Lumber Workers’ Industrial Union of the Sudbury area has also | sent in resolutions of protest. These | are just a few of the reports that have come in during the past week. The protest movement must | grow—the United Front Defense Conferences must be built up from coast to coast. The national dem- onstrations on Wednesday, Sept. 30, must embrace tens of thousands of workers. The protest movement must be accompanied by substan- tial financial help. The defense fund must he swelled! $50,000 is | needed to fight the attack! FOR MINERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Striking Miners’ Relief and the Workers’ International Relief in all parts of the country, The plan requires organization of workers in advance through confer- ences, ete., so that everything will be ready when the actual solidarity tag days come on September 26 and 27, Saturday and Sunday—ready to tag everybody. Money from every worker for the striking miners’ relief. ‘The first step in the organization of the tag days is a meeting of the delegate relief body in every city. This delegate body must be made as broad as possible to set up a united front of all workers and workers’ groups interested in the relief work. Organized work of the committees must be backed up by the work of individuals and by mass meetings in every city. The T. U. U. L, will take by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. part in these mass meetings and (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED The Cook County Conference for Unemployment Relief met Sunday morning with 130 organizations and 291 delegates, including seven A. F. men had to go to the Marine Hospi- tal to recuperate. American seamen, how long will you tolerate these conditions? The ship owners are organized. Why cut down to 6 a. b’s and 2 ordinaries and instead of increasing the wages of the men who were forced to do more work they cut the wages of the Bosses Fill Wilmington Jail with Jobless (By a Worker Correspondent) WILMINGTON, Del.—According to Warden E. J. Leach of the New- castle County Workhouse, there are more prisoners behind the walls of this bastile than ever before. In a report to the board of trustees, War- den Leach admitted that over 60 per cent of the prisoners were Ne- groes. He gave as the reason for the large number of prisoners the pres- ent economic crisis and admitted that the bosses were trying to break up any militancy on the part of the workers by having Judge Lynn “send Homeless War Vets Driven to Sleep in Park (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO.—The downtown busi- ness district still has many war vet- erans trying to make a living selling apples and pears. I have talked to a number of them and they tell me they make from 50 cents to $3 a day. Some of the stands are run by two veterans, so their average earn- ings hardly keep body and soul to- gether, Some of them sleep out in the park. A veteran told me that when we had the thunderstorm last Monday evening hundreds of homeless men went under the link bridge for pro- Hillquit Moves Closer to Czarist Clients New York, N. Y. Daily Worker: In a recent issue of the “Daily Worker” it was noted that Morris Hillquit lived on Riverside Drive. can’t we do the same thing? Let’s get into the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union and fight these wage- cuts and rotten conditions. them up.” However, he states that in spite of the crowded conditions of the workhouse at present he will be able to accommodate all the pris- oness that are sent to him. The Du Ponts and Bancrofts have found good and faithful Jackies in Lynn, Black and Leach. They are using this trio to try to break the rising fighting spirit of the workers in Wilmington, but in spite of this trio and the police terror the work- ers are beginning to organize under the banner of the Communist Party and the Unemployed Council. tection from the rain, After the downpour ended, policemen drove them out into the open again, sug- gesting that they go to the Salva- tion Army flophouse. A good many went back into the park and slept on the wet ground. This veteran said to me: “I don't know how long they'll let us keep this stand. I dread the winter.” I talked to him about the-Unem- ployed Councils and the Communist Party and he asked me to bring him something to read. The vets know they have been bunked, but it is our job to carry to them the message of what to do. Ave. Riverside Drive is inhabited only by second-class, half-millionaire sweat shop owners, while Park Avenue has of L, locals, eight TUUL locals, 39 block committees of the Unemployed Council, 80 fraternal organizations, the Communist Party and the Young Communist League. There was a good Negro representation, ‘The Conference decided to organ- ize a Cook County Hunger March in October, and endorsed the National Hunger March in December. A dele- gation was elected to visit the Gov- ernor Emmerson Commission on ‘Wednesday. The Conference “ endorsed the fol- lowing demands for unemployment telief: (1) An appropriation of $75,- 000,000 from the City of Chicago and an appropriation of $75,000,000 from the county; (2) $50,000,000 to be used for winter relief of $150 to each un- employed worker, with $50 extra for each dependent; (3) stopping of evic- tions; (4) opening of apartment buildings, hotels, Y. M. C. A,, etc., for housing homeless, unemployed 30,000 Negro and White Workers Boo “Big Bill; Back Communist Speakers workers: ¢ (4) abolition of the slums of the city of Chicago and the build- ing of new houses; (5) passage of Unemployed Insurance Bill proposed by the Communist Party; (6) uncon- ditional release of arrested workers and abolition of vagrancy laws. A committee of 50 was elected to carry out the tasks laid down by the Conference. Resist Eviction. Yesterday, 5,000 workers, resisting the eviction of an unemployed worker, were attacked by police, with 21 arrests. Evictions of workers are stopped daily by the militant action of the masses. Mass meetings are being held in all sections of the city. On the demand of Negro and white landlords, the police are increasing their terror against the workers, with many arrests occurring daily. In of the police terror, how- ever, fight against unemploy- ment, starvation, wage-cuts and Ne- gro oppression continues to develop, with the Negro and white masses in- creasingly rallying to the leadership of the Communist Party and the Unemployed Council. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED misery, starvation and suicides in the Los Angeles Record of Sept. 11. The story declares: “Long months of suffering were climaxed abruptly today in grim tragedy for a little Los Angeles fam- ily when the husband and father killed his wife and then committed suicide, “Their 17-year-old daughter, Jo« sephine, lay asleep a few feet away in another room at 115 E. 82nd St. as the shots rang out in the night.” The boss paper then admits that J. A. Comstock, the father, had been unable to find work for months. ‘That his wife, “Lily, 48, bravely tried all the higher ‘range millionaires and ‘With all the money coming in from|the White Guard Russian prostitute the White Guards and Ozarists and | princes and princesses, Hillquit had graft from the union manipulations, | to be nearer his oily clients, so Park Oily Hillguit has moved near Park a ee ee Avenue is now his native to help by working in a laundry. But it was hard. She, too, was 111” eects OMAHA, Sept. 14—Sibbernson, of 110 N, 38th St,, shot and killed him- More Jobless Suicides Pile Up Guilt of Murderous Capitalist System self Thursday morning, climaxing months of vain hunt for work and refusal of unemployment relief by the bosses and their charity racketeer- ing outfits. riecde er: LACONIA, N. H., Sept. 12—Burt Huntoon, out of work and denied re- lief by the bosses, committed suicide by shooting himself in his temple. Near his body was found the body of his pet cat, shot through the head. * # 6 ST. LOUIS, Sept. 13—The body of Wilke = Diesselhorst, unemployed worker, was found Wednesday night on Rock Hill Road, south of Big Bend, by his brother, Walter, who, with friends, had been seeking him several hours, He is survived by his widow and a 5-year-old daughter. Freids said that he had been de- NATIONAL SOLIDARITY TAG DAY spondent at having ‘to soe bia wite and child starving RELIEF, SEPT. 26-27 help in every possible way to make them a success. ‘The mass meetings should be used to get individual workers and groups assigned to collection tasks in every shop and every section of the city. All assignment of sections and col- lection tasks should be made a week | before the actual tag days, or by | Sept. 19. The week that follows should be devoted to distribution of supplies, collection materials and | leaflets, and the training of workers in methods of collection. The Solidarity Tag Days should be used to gain as much public atten- tion as possible, as well as to get money for the relief. Efforts should be made everywhere to have public tag days, with workers on the streets with collection boxes covering the whole city, Tag day stations should be set up in all sections of the city, and large numbers of collectors as- signed to each station. These sta- tions are the local headquarters to which all district collectors report. Every workers’ organization should send its members to a certain sta- | has presented a count¢r proposal to | | for |the funds Page Three OPPOSE RELIEF “|Walker | Wastes Money <= on FOR JOBLESS Dogs, Gaming; Jobless Starve Republicans Offer Own Demagogy The republican party in New York Roosevelt's bill for unemployment re- lief in its attempt to prevent him | from reaping all of the benefits of the demagogic attempt to fool the workers. While the republican pro- Dosals are an attack on Roosevelt | they agree thoroly with him in the | refusal to give any real relief to the unemployed. Instead of the Roosevelt proposal that the appropriation of $20,000,000 should be raised by a negligible in- crease in the income tax on the rich —less than one per cent of their in- comes—the republicans suggest that | the money for “relief” be raised by | economies in the present budget of | he state. The hypocrisy of this is evident from the fact that the state will have to raise $75,000,000 to| $100,000,000 next year to make up for | the decline in revenues during the | present crisis, This deficit does not even take into account a single cent the unemployed. The republi- cans, like the democrats, propose the unemployed shall get nothing as re- | lief to maintain themselves and their families during the coming terrible winter of starvation. The republican plan provides that for relief should go through officials at their disposal and not appointed by Roosevelt, so | that all of the graft coming out of | the relief appropriations shall go to | republican grafters, contractors and | politicians, not to democrats, Capitalist Parties United. The New York Times reports that the republican “report also contained a terse pronouncement against pay- ment of ‘doles’ in accord with the view expressed by Governor Roose- velt.” In this they are united—repub- licans, democrats and socialists—that the unemployed should not get an: thing approaching adequate In one other fundamental point they are united. All three capitalist par~ ties want to force the spreading of the Hoover stagger system, the five- day week wage cut scheme, to those workers who are still employed so that they, instead of the capitalist class, will have to bear the cost of the crisis. The unemployed and employed workers must rally against all three capitalist parties in the fight against hunger, for immediate relief and un- employment insurance. The workers must vote as they fight—against the bosses, against the parties of the bosses, democrat, socialist ‘and re- publican and for the patty of their clasus, the Communist Party. Vote Communist! Sie ce PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 9.— Faced with death by starvation, Emanuel Tulkelludes, an unemployed shoe worker attempted suicide and is Now at the point of death in a hos- pital. Tulkelludes told of hopelessly hunting for a job. He said: “I came here a few days ago from New Rockland, Mass, I worked there in a shoe factory, but it closed. There isn’t any work here, either. My fam- ily is in Spain, and I have no friends tion, and headquarters of workers’ |in this country. I decided I did not organizations should be used as sta- tions, Early efforts should be made to gather the names of workers willing to act as collectors. A call for vol- unteers should be made for workers to act as volunteer collectors, and they should be instructed as to where they can register for work on the Solidarity Tag Days. Those in charge should be sure that every vol- unteer is assigned a definite station. Street meetings are suggested as preliminary work im preparing the ground for the tag days. Everybody should know before hand that the tag days are being held. Meetings in workers’ quarters of the cities can | be used to arousé the spirit of soli- darity of the working class in the time before the tag days. Places to which workers should be assigned for special collection work are the gates of factories, the en- trance of theatres and restaurants, stores, especially co-operatives and places where groups of workers gather. Special attention should be given to professional groups, as med- ical and dental centers, but the chief place of collection will be the streets and houses where workers live, EXPECTS BABY; IS CAST ON STREET Charity Orders Them Not to Come Back NEW YORK.—Though his wife is soon expecting the birth of a child, Norman Smith and his family were thrown out on the streets by the landlord at 426 W. 53rd Street for non-payment of rent. This worker has been unemployed for many months and both he and his wife are on the verge of star- vation. These facts did not matter to the capitalist court when it or- dered he be thrown out. The charity gave him $5 with orders never to come back to them again. ‘The workers of the neighborhood realizing that the bosses’ organiza- tion were organized against them took matters into their own hands, Under the leadership of the League of Struggleyfor Negro Rights and the Unemployed Council a mass protest, meetings was held, and the furniture want to keep on this way.” PITTSBURG, KAN. HEARS GF SOVIET, Burkhardt Tells of Soviet Hospitals (By a Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURG, Kansas—Dr. A. E. Burkhardt, of Kansas City, who has just returned from a trip to the U. S.- S. R. spoke to 1,200 workers in Lin- coln Park Sunday, Sept. 6. Dr. Burkhardt reported he had | made a special study of the hospitals | and the medical attention given to | the Soviet workers and farmers and | their families, laying special empha- sis on the preventive treatment given workers which he said was not to be found in a capitalist country. But as he remarked if the doctors in America prevented disease among the workers there would be less profit for the doctors and that we workers need not look not only for preventives but not even for any free treatment when we are sick, The workers were very enthusiastic over the doctor's talk. When Mrs. Burkhardt talked to the women of a Soviet government she got much ap- plause, —SI.W. DOG SHOP CHAIRMEN MEET TUESDAY. A meeting of the shop chairmen of all dog shops will take place Tues- day, right after work at the office of the union, 131 W. 28th St. At this meeting the Executive Commit- tee of 25 will report on the activi- ties and will also discuss policy of the union toward the fake peace maneuvers, All dog shop chairmen and delegates are called upon to re- port to this meeting. Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per copy. Read it—Spread it! ‘ciprisionanlem naatemmepemretane said. by helping carry back the furniture. ‘The janitor of the house, under in- timidation of the landlord framed up charges against two workers of the Unemployed Council and they were arrested charged with breaking into private property. They are held on $300 bail. The trial will be held was put back. Even the neighbor- hood children showed their solidarity Friday, Sept. 11 at 10 a, m, at the 54th Street Court House, NEW YORK. — Grafting Mayor Walker is not only having a riotous time in Europe, getting decorations from the French government for his | skill in grafting but he flings away | thousands of dollars on lap dogs and |gambling resorts while the unem-| car for his dog, Admiral Togo. | ployed in New York starve to death. Walker is on one of his endless vacations resting up from the strenu- | ous work of filling his own as well| as the other grafting boss politicians’ | pockets while telling the unemployed | to wait until the ice cream is served. The latest report of teh many wild escapades of Walker, who providently raised his salary at the begining of the crisis to $40,000 a year, tells of his losing $2,000 at gambling tables on the Riviera in one night. Walker quickly denied the story because as he said it wouldn’t look right to the unemployed. The New York Times, which “is very friendly to the Walker regime, especially when it comes to clubbing unemployed, reports from Cannes: Mayor Walker of New York had his | first fling at gambling on the Riviera tonight and came out the loser by a little more than $2,000 after a brief session of baccarat at the Palm Beach Casino here.” © pay for his losses Walker will | come back and pare down the slim }relief that the city has put aside for |the unemployed. Not only is Walker himself having a riotous time but he goes to the extent of hiring a private | On the trip to Cannes, Walker paid money enough to feed dozens of un- employed families for months to the | railroad for a private railroad com- | bartment for his dog. | Even the gutter sheet, the New | York Mirror, was forced to remark ‘Mayor Walker selected a capricious dog, Admiral Togo, who traveled from Paris to Cannes enjoying com- forts whose expenses would have | helped starving families in New York ‘for many days. Togo probably had as much fun as the mayor when the pyjama girls flung the roses at both of them.” For these activities, and especially for his attack against the unem- ployed, Walker is wined and dined by the Berlin, Paris, Viennese city |8overnments who likewise clubdown | unemployed, and will be received at @ special luncheon by the “socialist” prime minister, MacDonald. TO DIST’S; TAMPA ‘PHILA. OUTING SUCCESSFUL EXAMPLE CLUB MUST GROW! Enclosed find $50 on account of the Labor Day outing. We have not yet made up the full account, but this will be done in a few days. You will then receive the full amount. The above comes from District 3, Philadelphia, like a welcome shower on a sizzling day. But where are the plans of the other districts to hold affairs, picnics, outings and other workers’ gatherings for the Daily Worker. Now! Today! the Daily needs every bit of support that it can possibly get. Affairs, picnics and dances should be scheduled ahead on a calendared plan. Every party unit can do something to support the Daily Worker. Especially pre- ceding the coming subscription drive must everything possible be done to break up the lull which has begun to set in. There must be no question of Daily Worker activity slowing down during this period. The response of workers everywhere during the last financial drive showed that they are ready to support their Daily Worker | all the way through to mass circu- lation. Every Party member, every member of a mass organization and revolutionary trade union can easily | take his share in this important ac- tivity. Affairs Develop Initiative. Start something in your neighbor- hood for the benefit of the Daily Worker. It need only be an informal affair in your home or some work- ers’ center. down for a good time. Home talent can be arranged for. The Women’s Council or some other comrades can be drawn into the work of supplying the refreshments for this occasion. There can be some political discus- sion of an informal nature. The Daily Worker should always be read and discussed at these affairs. The sentiment for the organization of a Daily Worker Club almost arouses itself at this type of workers’ gath- ering. Enthusiasm for Work Helps. That subs are still obtainable from workers and contacts can be made | when we use the correct bolshevik method of work is evidenced by the following comrade’s report coming from Lincoln, Nebraska: “I have started a house-to-house route with the Daily Worker, and on the first trip sold ten and se- Everybody will come | cured this sub in about two hours,” | Comrade G. L. has plenty of en- | thusiasm. Certainly he is not af- flictéd with a much too commop bogy that due to hard times the worlte ers in a particular neighborhood or |factory district will not read the | Daily Worker or become subscribers to it. It is exactly this attitude | Which weighs down so many of the older comrades before they even Start any activity to stimulate sales and subscription contacts for the Daily Worker. Other cases show that the Daily Worker has become so iso- | lated from the every-day activity of | the Party and unit that it becomes absolutely impossible to even ap- | proach workers to take a sub. | It must be exactly along the lines of our activity from day to day that we use the Daily Worker to strengthen our contact with work- ers we meet. The Daily Worker must prove itself to be our great- est ally in any organization if we | prove to these workers that it is | their paper, always ready and will- ing to reflect their struggles and their opinions in contradistinction to the capitalist press. Must Build Club. From Tampa we hear the follow- ing: “The sales of the Daily Worker are not going so good here. No co- operation from the rank and file...” We are both sorry and surprised to | hear this, Tampa. It looked to us | Some time ago as though Tampa were getting hot for some real boost on sales and subs. We gathered this | not so much from the increases in | orders, which were welcome since they in themselves showed signs of vakening activity, as we did from he organization of a Daily Worker Club. Mechanical application to- words unwarranted bundle increases will never establish the Daily on a | sound basis. Neither can we sit back and ex- pect the initiative of rank and file workers to fall on us like Manna from the sky. The Daily Worker Club must be developed for exactly this reason. It's really quite a simple form to start if we begin the initiative ourselves and then give it guidance without formalism or intense mechanical discipline. Try developing this form, Tampa, and we feel sure that you will be pleasantly shocked. at the co-opera- tion you get. 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