The Daily Worker

Organization Department Plans Mobilization for the Daily Worker Drive

THE biggest thing before the party now is the mobilization of our comrades, sympathizers, and other workers for a successful DAILY WORKER drive. Towards this end the entire party apparatus is being brought into action.

The organization department of the C. E. C. has just issued a detailed plan to all district organizers, indicating lines of activity and the program of action in this drive to save the DAILY WORKER. The danger confronting the DAILY WORKER is not an ordinary one. The difficulties we are now experiencing are much more serious than the ordinary hardships we have been face to face with for some time. Unless prompt and sufficient relief is given to the DAILY WORKER, we will be forced to discontinue publication. This is not an empty warning. This is an absolute fact.

The following is a copy of the appeal and the instructions sent out by the organization department, on the DAILY WORKER campaign, to all the district organizers of the Workers Party. Every comrade should give the most energetic and whole hearted support to this campaign.

DEAR Comrades:

The threat to the life of the DAILY WORKER is a reality. We are anxiously appealing to you to get on the job and SAVE THE DAILY WORKER.

We must raise a minimum of $15,000 during the remaining days of October, or else there will be no more DAILY WORKER.

We must especially raise a fund of $40,000 in order to insure the continuation of the DAILY WORKER.

We have the fullest confidence in our party members. We feel certain that our comrades can realize these goals.

Of course, the life of the DAILY WORKER is more than a party problem; we are sure that in this campaign to save the DAILY WORKER our comrades can and must appeal to a much wider mass than the ranks of our party membership. The DAILY WORKER is not only an organ of our party. The DAILY WORKER is also the spokesman of the whole working class.

In order to insure the success of our party in this campaign to raise the minimum necessary funds specified above, the organization department submits the following instructions for mobilizing our party and its sympathizers:

1. Every branch, city and district of our party must immediately set up Special SAVE THE DAILY WORKER COMMITTEES. These committees must consist of the most energetic, hard working, and most capable comrades that the respective party units can find for this work.

2. Wherever at all possible and advisable, there should be added non-party individuals, members of labor unions, and other working class organizations to these SAVE THE DAILY WORKER COMMITTEES.

To the extent that we succeed in thus broadening the composition of our SAVE THE DAILY WORKER COMMITTEES, to that extent will we succeed in our efforts to appeal to a much broader mass than our party members.

3. Special shop collections and drives to sell the HELP THE DAILY WORKER stamps should be organized in the shops, mines, and factories.

You should make particular efforts to mobilize for this task the comrades already organized in the existing shop nuclei of our party.

THE SHOP NUCLEI MUST SET THE PACE IN THIS MOST IMPORTANT PARTY ACTIVITY.

4. These SAVE THE DAILY WORKER COMMITTEES should make every effort to approach individual sympathizers who can afford to contribute fair-sized sums to the DAILY WORKER. In every city and district there can be found such radical sympathizers.

5. Arrange affairs and take other necessary steps to insure the payment of the money due from your district, or various sub-units of your district, to the DAILY WORKER. If necessary, make loans in your district to pay promptly the debt long overdue to the DAILY WORKER.

6. You should arrange, thru the various SAVE THE DAILY WORKER COMMITTEES to visit personally all subscribers of the DAILY WORKER in your territory in order to solicit contributions from them.

7. The various SAVE THE DAILY WORKER COMMITTEES should arrange to send speakers to labor unions and other working class organizations in their territory to appeal for the necessary funds.

8. Immediately make an accurate survey of the branches in your territory and find out which of them have not yet responded to the assessment levied on them for the DAILY WORKER. Do not delay in taking steps to see to it that such assessments are immediately collected and rushed to the DAILY WORKER.

9. This SAVE THE DAILY WORKER CAMPAIGN is now the major party activity. All of our energy and resources must be mobilized for this campaign in order to conclude it successfully and quickly. The harder you work, the quicker we get the necessary results.

10. Make it your business to draw into this campaign as nearly as possible the entire party membership. The greater the number of members participating in this campaign, the bigger will be the results.

11. Please keep the organization department fully and regularly informed as to all the organizational steps you are taking. Send us your suggestions and recommendations for improving our efforts and getting results in this campaign. Your recommendations may prove very helpful to other districts. Besides, there can be no real national campaign of the party for the DAILY WORKER unless we have good publicity. The best publicity for it is the broadest spreading of information about the actual experiences of and the concrete results attained by our comrades in the various sections of the party.

TO WORK, COMRADES! MAKE THIS A REAL CAMPAIGN! NO MORE THAN YOUR SHARE! SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! SAVE THE ONLY ENGLISH COMMUNIST DAILY IN THE WORLD! THE ONLY ENGLISH DAILY ORGAN OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL!

Fraternally yours,

JAY LOVESTONE,

Organization Dept.