‘The Bronx Gets a Communist Library’ from the Daily Worker. Vol. 2 No. 102. May 12, 1925.

THE Bronx headquarters of the Workers Party, at 1347 Boston Road, New York City, are ahum with commotion. Bookcases are being made and overhauled; chairs, benches and tables are being built; everybody’s busy; and everybody is talking about the Bronx Library. Comrades are looking over their personal libraries, scratching their heads and wondering how many good books they can spare for the Workers’ Library. Subscriptions are being sent in for the Workers Monthly, and some of our periodicals and daily papers, and by and by the Bronx library will become one of the finest Communist libraries in the country.

The Jewish Branch No. 1 has collected $12.23 for the library fund; besides numerous books have been promised by individual comrades. One comrade in the Russian branch has promised to donate over $100 worth of Russian books; others have also pledged themselves to do likewise. The English Branch No. 1 has donated a subscription to the International News Service, and many of the individual comrades have promised books and money. Special credit should be given to the Young Workers League branches who are working with might and main to make the library Issue a success. They have already contributed over 200 volumes, and promise to do much more.

Comrades of the Bronx, this appeal is addressed to you. If you want the Communist center of the Bronx to contain a real working Comm library, we call upon you to come down to the headquarters with all the books and money you can gather together and help us in the work. The library committee meets at headquarters on Tuesday, May 12. If your branch has not elected a delegate and you are interested in this work, be present yourself and let us have your counsel and help In this matter.—Library Committee, Bronx.

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924. National and City (New York and environs) editions exist

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