The Daily Worker

An Appeal to Party Members

In Saturday's issue of the Daily Worker we asked some pertinent questions. We asked Party members who have not yet reported or collected upon the Daily Worker campaign lists why they have been inactive to now, while so many workers, not Party members, have clipped the collection list we print in the Daily Worker and have secured contributions in great number?

We asked this question because we wanted to impress upon you that securing contributions to help the Daily Worker is mass work and the kind of work every Party member must undertake.

We feel that there are some Party members who think that the workers will not contribute to our paper, so what's the use asking them. Some Party members think that workers, who are strangers to them, will not respond to an appeal from a revolutionary paper.

When New York City comrades went out in force for a mass collection several weeks ago, many of them had very interesting experiences. Thousands of workers on street corners, in shops, on the trains, contributed generously, many telling our collectors that they had heard about the Communist Party and the Daily Worker and were on our side in the fight against the bosses and unemployment. Many insisted upon subscribing for the Daily Worker.

In one instance a fascist member of the American Legion tried to interfere with a collector. The argument waxed hot. Workers gathered around. One worker shouted, "Never mind that guy-pass the box," and the workers contributed so generously that the fascist took to his heels.

We can collect the balance of $10,000 for our emergency fund if Party members who have not yet secured their $5 quota will shed their apathy and timidity and become aggressive mass collectors.