The Daily Worker
—1924—
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In 1924, throughout the entire year, there was just one edition of The Daily Worker published each day. That changes in January of 1925, when the start of many years of printing both a National and a New York edition of the paper each day begins. More information on this in other notes on this archive, available both on the landing page and on some of the other pages..
The first published issue of The Daily Worker is numbered Volume 1, Number 206, January 13, 1924. This is because the numbering of each issue was a continuation of the “The Worker” (1922 - 1924), a weekly that predated the The Daily Worker and which itself was a continuation of “The Toiler". “The Toiler” (and its issue numbering... sort of, with a bit of a glitch) is a continuation of the paper “The Ohio Socialist". “The Ohio Socialist” was first printed in January of 1917, as a monthly letter size page publication put out by a politically center to right part of the Socialist Party. But in January of 1918 it got taken over by those in the far left in the Socialist Party, and began being put out as a broadsheet size newspaper (in quite a wide variety of variants of broadsheet size paper) and by mid 1918 was being published weekly. It became the direct lineage “great-grand-father” of the Communist Party’s The Daily Worker.
On March 18 (why that date? We have no idea what so ever!) the numbering resets, and “Volume 2” begins. In mid-January of 1925, when issue numbering of The Daily Worker resets and a new volume is started, that volume was ALSO called “Volume 2” on the paper. We here have (in the file names and text on these pages) termed the first “Volume 2” that begins in March of 1924 to be “Volume 2a”, and the second “Volume 2”, that begins in mid-January of 1925, “Volume 2b.
The presentation of nearly all of The Daily Worker of 1924 on this page was scanned from microfilm under the supervision of the University of Illinois at Urbana, for the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress presents this material on its “Chronicling America” web site. But it provided this material in one page at a time download fashion, forcing well over a dozen clicks or keystrokes to download a single issue of the paper, and lacking any indications of whether an issue missing on a given day simply was never printed, or is an issue that was printed but missing from their presentation, because no issue numbers are provided.
Another problem with the Library of Congress Chronicling America web site (and of other The Daily Worker material offered elsewhere on line) : they are offered in pdf/A format, not generic pdf file format. This demonstrates ignorance of what pdf/A format is: a file format specifically created not for bit mapped photographic images (with or without embedded OCR) but rather for scale-able font and vector graphic type images. Pdf/A was specifically developed for legal and other business use to remind users of documents they’d created using scale-able fonts to preserve the font library in a particular pdf file, to be sure it was rendered properly on paper and on the screen. It has no place in presenting digital photographic bit map type images made with cameras and scanners. Some (ignorant of what pdf/A format is) mistakenly think pdf/A format offers protection against willful alteration of a given image. It absolutely does not at all. It just makes it harder to make legitimate professional use of the image. All of what we present is in generic ordinary pdf format.
Despite those criticisms, we here note it is very much to the credit of the Library of Congress that, when we contacted them about obtaining all their scans of The Daily Worker, they kindly instructed us in how to us a special tool to automatically download all of the pages they had of The Daily Worker on their web site, automatically. I personally (with some assistance) then spent months assembling their single page scans into carefully labeled (with volume and issue number as well as date, and in later years where this is relevant indication of edition type) full issue pdf files, of generic pdf file type. It is these which we provide here. We of the Marxists Internet Archive web site wish to express our deep and sincere gratitude to the Library of Congress for making their material so readily available to us.
Editorial and publishing notes for 1924: The Editors for this were J. Louis Engdahl, William F. Dunne though Dunne wasn’t added until later in the year. The Business Manager was Moritz J. Loeb. Production of the paper, both editorial and printing was done in Chicago, Ill.
Martin H. Goodman MD
Riazanov Library digital archive projects May 2023
No. 311 Jan 13, 1924 [supplement]
No. 317 Jan 19, 1924 [supplement]
No. 323 Jan 26, 1924 [supplement]
No. 329 Feb 2, 1924 [supplement]
No. 335 Feb 9, 1924 [supplement]
No. 341 Feb 16, 1924 [supplement]
No. 343 Feb 19, 1924 [supplement]
No. 347 Feb 23, 1924 [supplement]
No. 353 Mar 1, 1924 [supplement]
No. 356 Mar 22, 1924 [supplement]
No. 359 Mar 8, 1924 [supplement]
No. 365 Mar 15, 1924 [supplement]
***End of Volume 1***
*** Start of Volume 2a***
[Note there are TWO different "Volume 2's" in Daily Worker.
We've named this one "Volume 2a", and the next one we've named "Volume 2b".
No. 2 Mar 19, 1924 [supplement]
No. 215 Mar 22, 1924 [supplement]
No. 11 Mar 29, 1924 [supplement]
No. 17 Apr 5, 1924 [supplement]
No. 23 Apr 12, 1924 [supplement]
No. 29 Apr 19, 1924 [supplement]
No. 35 Apr 26, 1924 [supplement]
No. 40 May 3, 1924 [supplement]
No. 46 May 10, 1924 [supplement]
No. 52 May 17, 1924 [supplement]
No. 58 May 24, 1924 [supplement]
No. 63 May 30, 1924 [supplement]
No. 69 Jun 7, 1924 [supplement]
No. 75 Jun 14, 1924 [supplement]
No. 81 Jun 21, 1924 [supplement]
No. 87 Jun 28, 1924 [supplement]
No. 092 Jul 5, 1924 [supplement]
No. 098 Jul 12, 1924 [supplement]
No. 104 Jul 19, 1924 [supplement]
No. 110 Jul 26, 1924 [supplement]
No. 68 Aug 2, 1924 [supplement]
No. 74 Aug 9, 1924 [supplement]
No. 80 Aug 16, 1924 [supplement]
No. 86 Aug 23, 1924 [supplement]
No. 92 Aug 30, 1924 [supplement]
No. 144 Sep 6, 1924 [supplement]
No. 150 Sep 13, 1924 [supplement]
No. 156 Sep 20, 1924 [supplement]
No. 162 Sep 27, 1924 [supplement]
No. 168 Oct 4, 1924 [supplement]
No. 174 Oct 11, 1924 [supplement]
No. 180 Oct 18, 1924 [supplement]
No. 186 Oct 25, 1924 [supplement]
No. 197 Nov 1, 1924 [supplement]
No. 200 Nov 5, 1924 [supplement]
No. 203 Nov 8, 1924 [supplement]
No. 209 Nov 15, 1924 [supplement]
No. 215 Nov 22, 1924 [supplement]
No. 221 Nov 28, 1924 [supplement]
No. 221 Dec 6, 1924 [supplement]
No. 227 Dec 13, 1924 [supplement]
No. 233 Dec 20, 1924 [supplement]
No. 238 Dec 27, 1924 [supplement]
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30 August 2017
22 October 2022