HELPING THE "WORKER."

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 20, 21 July 1911, Page 15

HELPING THE "WORKER."

Sir, —In other countries comrades risk their lives in propagating Socialist literature. In this country some comrades risk their jobs, but there are ways by which good propaganda can be done it the risk at the most of the price of a packet of cigarettes each week. I will suggest one way. Let each newsagent all over tho Dominion be taken in hand by a local comrade. Probably the agent, if an enterpris.ng man, would have half-a-dozen Workers on sale the next Saturday after being asked for them. Anyhow, whether the agent hesitates or not, let the comrade guarantee to him to purchase all unsold copies of half-a-dozen Workers at the price allowed by the wholesaler for returns, so tiiat he will have a greater in pushing the paper for a penny than in laying it by for our comrade at cost When the ageni. wui uavo got regular customers ioi tuo first six copies LXien our comrades guarantee can go on for the unsold vw V iv,o oi the next six, and so on until tho circulation snail have become weir tkSLaoiitiicd, or for ever and ever if con SiUored necessary. Comrades oou^u arrange willi each other to work it m tnree-xuontn sinits, but always to leave (jomeone responsible for it. Neither newsagents nor wnoiesaier would irave risii or - ootner, and 1 feel sure that 11 sueri a simple scheme is tiioroughly vnao we would have in two years a circulation that could not be approacned oy any otlier paper in. the xiuiiimiuai. Certainly tne reader of the oru party papers wxu not have sunicient mDetest in tnem to follow suit. x suppose tnat comrades Know that any paper's they may nave left on their uancls can always toe posted unstamped to puonc liorarces and otiier puohc institutions, besides leaving them in oaroers' sxtops, trams, trains, etc. undoubtedly, tuiere are better schemes, Out I am trying this one. This would not prevent otiiers from spending vne price ot two ot "Old Judge" occasionally on an advt. in the locai paper, xxns would oe better anu more consistent than laughing at tlie extorts of trie &alvation a.rmy. xiie ad. could run sometnxng uae tins: "Wanted.—ix>yalty of workers to tneir own paper, Ihe Woxuusit; weeKiy ; local newsagents, w atari tor contents mil. Or (is Od yearly. Boa Ut", Wellington." Of course, comrades can worJi out ads. to their own taste, and as it may strike best, at the time, but 1 txrinii that by me/rtioning the Wellington address it will give country readers a cxiance to suoscnoe 6s bd direct.— lours tor the cause, Wanganui. xulxiUNDO.