Comrade Wright of Butte, Montana was committed to spreading the Good News.

‘Butte Worker Drives a ‘Daily Worker’ Car’ from the Daily Worker. Vol. 7 No. 140. June 11, 1930.

Police Can Not Down Him in Building

Butte, Mon., 6-2-30.

The Daily Worker, New York, N. Y. Dear Comrades:

I am sending you a photo of my “Daily Worker” car. When I first came out on the streets of Butte with this announcement of the “Daily” being in distress, the corporation tools got busy at once, and the first thing that I knew, I was in police headquarters thinking it over where I could get $25.00 for bonds on a charge of violating a traffic ordinance. At the trial, the judge declared the act of my arrest “unconstitutional,” and I was discharged. The next day I was headed into the headquarters again–another traffic violation.

Again I was discharged and the sale of the Daily Worker continued. Now we are starting for the district convention which is to be held at Minot, N. Dak., on the seventh of June. We are going with three delegates, and the natives enroute will know something about the Daily Worker from now on.

We intend to strike deep roots for the Daily Worker in this corporation ridden town, help our best to collect funds for the $25,000 Emergency Fund, get new readers everywhere.

Yours for the $25,000 Daily Worker Campaign. Am enclosing Money Order for more subs.

-W. L. Wright.

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.

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