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Daily Worker

American left-wing newspaper (1924–1958)

Daily Worker
Summary

American left-wing newspaper (1924–1958)

FieldValue
imageDaily Worker.pdf
captionNo. 254 of the Daily Worker (November 7, 1927)
typeDaily newspaper
formatBroadsheet and tabloid
founded
political_positionCommunist; socialist
languageEnglish
ceased_publicationJanuary 1958
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circulationVarious

the American newspaper

  • New York City, New York
  • Chicago, Illinois The Daily Worker was a newspaper published in Chicago, founded by communists, socialists, union members, and other activists. Publication began in 1924. It generally reflected the prevailing views of members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA); it also reflected a broader spectrum of left-wing opinion. At its peak, the newspaper achieved a circulation of 35,000. Contributors to its pages included Robert Minor and Fred Ellis (cartoonists), Lester Rodney (sports editor), David Karr, Richard Wright, John L. Spivak, Peter Fryer, Woody Guthrie, and Louis F. Budenz.

All works of the Daily Worker prior to 1964 are now in the public domain due to the nonrenewal of their copyright status.

History

Origins

The origins of the Daily Worker were with the weekly Ohio Socialist published by the Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919. The Ohio party joined the nascent Communist Labor Party of America (CLP) at the 1919 Emergency National Convention.

The Ohio Socialist only used whole numbers. Its final issue was #94 November 19, 1919. The Toiler continued this numbering, even though a typographical error made its debut issue #85 November 26, 1919. Beginning sometime in 1921 the volume number IV was added, perhaps reflecting the publications fourth year in print, though its issue numbers continued the whole number scheme. The final edition of the Toiler was Vol IV #207 January 28, 1922. The Worker continued the Toilers numbering during its run Vol. IV #208 February 2, 1922 to Vol. VI #310 January 12, 1924. The first edition of Daily worker was numbered Vol. I #311.

The Ohio Socialist became Toiler in November 1919. In 1920, with the CLP going underground, Toiler became the party's "aboveground" newspaper published by "The Toiler Publishing Association." It remained as the Cleveland aboveground publication of the CLP and its successors until February 1922.

In December 1921 the "aboveground" Workers Party of America was founded and the Toiler merged with Workers Council of the Workers' Council of the United States to found the six page weekly The Worker.

This became the Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924.

In 1927, the newspaper moved from Chicago to New York.

May Day]] parade float with statue reading the ''Daily Worker''

Beginning in the popular front period of the 1930s, the paper broadened its coverage of the arts and entertainment. In 1935, it established a sports page, with contributions from David Karr, the page was edited and frequently written by Lester Rodney. The paper's sports coverage combined enthusiasm for baseball with the usual Marxist social critique of capitalist society and bourgeois attitudes. It advocated the desegregation of professional sports.

Post-World War II

After a short hiatus, the party published a weekend paper called The Worker from 1958 until 1968. A Tuesday edition called The Midweek Worker was added in 1961 and also continued until 1968, when production was accelerated.

Two newspapers and a merger

In 1968, the publication was resumed as a New York daily paper, now titled The Daily World. In 1986, the paper merged with the West Coast weekly paper, the People's World. The new People's Daily World published from 1987 until 1991, when daily publication was abandoned.

Contemporary claims of successors

The new paper was cut back to a weekly issue and was retitled People's Weekly World (later retitled to People's World as to de-emphasize the weekly component). Print publication of the People's World ceased in 2010 in favor of an online edition. , People's World claims that, "Peoplesworld.org is a daily news website of, for and by the 99% and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker." Its publisher is Long View Publishing Company. The online newspaper is a member of the International Labor Communications Association and is indexed in the Alternative Press Index. Its staff belong to the Newspaper Guild/CWA, AFL–CIO.

Another publication, both in print as The Worker and online as Daily Worker USA states that it is "Continuing The Daily Worker, Founded in 1924." The Worker is the Publication of the Central Committee of the Party of Communists USA, which itself claims to be the continuing the legacy of the old CPUSA, and The Worker has been printed and distributed since at least 2020.

Leadership

Editors

Masthead

1920s

  • Martin Abern
  • Maurice Becker, cartoonist
  • Max Bedacht, contributor
  • Alexander Bittelman, magazine editor
  • Ella Reeve Bloor
  • Jacob Burck, cartoonist
  • Walt Carmon, circulation manager
  • Ann Washington Craton, contributor
  • Whittaker Chambers
  • Kyle Crichton as "Robert Forsythe" (father of Robert Crichton)
  • Paul Crouch
  • Samuel Adams Darcy
  • Nicholas Dozenberg, business manager
  • William F. Dunne, editor
  • Fred Ellis, cartoonist
  • J. Louis Engdahl, editor
  • Lovett Fort-Whiteman, contributor
  • Harry Freeman
  • Sender Garlin
  • Hugo Gellert, cartoonist
  • Harrison George
  • Mike Gold, columnist
  • William Gropper, cartoonist
  • Jolan Gross-Bettelheim, cartoonist
  • Ji Chaoding, contributor
  • L. E. Katterfeld ("New York representative")
  • Sergey Kurnakov, military affairs
  • A. B. Magil
  • Benjamin Mandel, business manager
  • Robert Minor, cartoonist
  • Richard B. Moore
  • Paul Novick
  • Harvey O'Connor ("effective editor")
  • Tom Maidhc O'Flaherty, columnist
  • Moissaye Joseph Olgin
  • Edwin Rolfe
  • Max Shachtman
  • Esther Shemitz, cartoonist
  • Bertram Wolfe

1930s

  • James S. Allen, foreign news writer
  • Robert Bendiner
  • Richard O. Boyer
  • Sam Brody, film critic
  • Nathaniel Buchwald, Moscow correspondent
  • Louis F. Budenz, managing editor
  • Ben Burns
  • Samuel Adams Darcy, editor
  • Benjamin J. Davis Jr.
  • Theodore Draper, assistant foreign editor
  • Theodore Dreiser
  • Lou Ferstadt, cartoonist
  • Frederick Vanderbilt Field
  • Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, columnist
  • Nelson Frank
  • Nat Ganley
  • Harry Gannes, foreign editor
  • James Glaser, managing editor
  • Si Gerson
  • Eugene Gordon
  • Woody Guthrie, "Woody Sez" columnist for People's World
  • Clarence Hathaway, editor
  • Syd Hoff, cartoonist
  • Jacob Kainen, cartoonist
  • David Karr
  • Jay Richard Kennedy, circulation manager
  • Sergey Nikolaevich Kurnakov
  • Avrom Landy, New York City editor
  • John Howard Lawson
  • Edna Lewis
  • Walter Lowenfels
  • Maud Malone, librarian
  • Max Margulis, music critic
  • J. B. Matthews, contributor
  • George Morris, labor editor
  • Felix Morrow
  • Joseph North, columnist
  • Pablo O'Higgins, illustrator
  • Brian O'Neill, contributor
  • Myra Page, contributor
  • Harry Alan Potamkin, film critic
  • Samuel Putnam
  • Al Richmond
  • Lester Rodney, sports writer
  • Edwin Rolfe
  • Muriel Rukeyser
  • Howard Rushmore
  • Samuel Sillen, contributor
  • Charles Edward Smith, music critic
  • Vern Smith, Moscow correspondent
  • John L. Spivak
  • Carolyn Lloyd Strobell, contributor
  • Ryan Walker, cartoonist/editor
  • Alden Whitman, book critic
  • Richard Wright, Harlem editor
  • Marguerite Young, Washington DC bureau chief

1940s

  • Edith Anderson-Schröder, culture editor
  • Phil Bard, advertising manager
  • Abner Berry, negro affairs editor
  • Dick Briefer, cartoonist
  • Earl Browder, contributor
  • Morris Childs, editor
  • Benjamin J. Davis Jr., president
  • Pele de Lappe, illustrator
  • Peggy Dennis, women's editor
  • Frederick Vanderbilt Field
  • Sidney Finkelstein, music critic
  • James W. Ford, contributor
  • Si Gerson
  • Irving Goff, contributor
  • Louis Harap, contributor
  • Grace Hutchins, contributor
  • Jim Kepner
  • Harvey Kurtzman, cartoonist
  • Edna Lewis
  • Bill Mardo
  • Alexander Saxton
  • Edwin Seaver
  • Jack Stachel, associate editor
  • Joseph Starobin, foreign editor
  • Carolyn Lloyd Strobell, owner
  • Dalton Trumbo, contributor
  • Theodore Ward
  • Alden Whitman, book critic
  • Milton Wolff, culture editor
  • Jose Yglesias, film critic

1950s

  • Joseph Clark, foreign editor
  • Jesús Colón, columnist
  • Howard Fast
  • Peter Fryer, contributor
  • John Gates, editor
  • Si Gerson, executive editor
  • Claudia Jones, columnist
  • Douglas Turner Ward, reporter
  • Charles W. White, cartoonist

1970s

  • Akwasi Evans, freelance reporter

Pamphlets

Before the Party established the Workers Library Publishers in late 1927, the party used the Daily Worker Publishing Company imprint to publish its pamphlets.

References

References

  1. Admin. (2009-08-25). "About People's World".
  2. Pederson, Vernon. (January 11, 2008). "Take It As Red". [[On The Media]] for [[National Public Radio]].
  3. "FAQ: How To Find Out Whether a Copyright Was Renewed?".
  4. "The Daily Worker copyright information".
  5. Goldwater, Walter ''Radical periodicals in America 1890-1950'' New Haven, Yale University Library 1964 pp.10, 30, 42, 46
  6. (September 2018). "Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection". Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive.
  7. (2009-08-25). "About the People's World". People's World.
  8. "About Us".
  9. "Home".
  10. Chambers, Whittaker. (2001). "Witness". Regnery Pub..
  11. Morris, George. (1952). "A Tale of Two Waterfronts". Daily Worker.
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