TheOhio Socialist only used whole numbers. Its final issue was #94 November 19, 1919. TheToiler 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 theToiler was Vol IV #207 January 28, 1922. TheWorker continued theToilers numbering during its run Vol. IV #208 February 2, 1922 to Vol. VI #310 January 12, 1924. The first edition ofDaily worker was numbered Vol. I #311.[5]
TheOhio Socialist becameToiler 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.[citation needed]
May Day parade float with statue reading theDaily Worker
Beginning in thepopular front period of the 1930s, the paper broadened its coverage of the arts and entertainment. In 1935, it established a sports page, with contributions fromDavid Karr, the page was edited and frequently written byLester Rodney. The paper's sports coverage combined enthusiasm for baseball with the usual Marxist social critique of capitalist society and bourgeois attitudes. It advocated thedesegregation ofprofessional sports.[citation needed]
After a short hiatus, the party published a weekend paper calledThe Worker from 1958 until 1968. A Tuesday edition calledThe Midweek Worker was added in 1961 and also continued until 1968, when production was accelerated.[citation needed]
In 1968, the publication was resumed as a New York daily paper, now titledThe Daily World. In 1986, the paper merged with theWest Coast weekly paper, thePeople's World. The newPeople's Daily World published from 1987 until 1991, when daily publication was abandoned.[citation needed]
The new paper was cut back to a weekly issue and was retitledPeople's Weekly World (later retitled toPeople's World as to de-emphasize the weekly component). Print publication of thePeople's World ceased in 2010 in favor of an online edition.[citation needed] As of 2012[update],People's World claims that, "Peoplesworld.org is a daily news website of, for and by the 99% and the direct descendant of theDaily Worker." Its publisher is Long View Publishing Company. The online newspaper is a member of theInternational Labor Communications Association and is indexed in theAlternative Press Index. Its staff belong to theNewspaper Guild/CWA,AFL–CIO.[7]
Another publication, both in print asThe Worker and online asDaily Worker USA states that it is "ContinuingThe 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.[8][9]
Before the Party established the Workers Library Publishers in late 1927, the party used the Daily Worker Publishing Company imprint to publish its pamphlets.
The state and revolution: Marxist teaching on the state and the task of the proletariat in the revolution byVladimir Lenin Chicago: Daily Worker Pub. Co., 1924
Poems for workers, an anthology edited by Manuel Gomez Chicago: Published for Workers Party of America by Daily Worker Pub. Co., 1925 (Little Red Library #5)
"Soviet dumping" fable: speech byLitvinov New York: Published for Daily Worker by Workers Library Publishers, 1931
Anti-soviet lies and the five-year plan: the "Holy" capitalist war against the Soviet Union by Max Bedacht New York: Published for Daily Worker by Workers Library Publishers, 1931
Dimitroff accuses byGeorgi Dimitrov New York, Daily Worker, 1934
The Iron Heel by Jack London New York, Daily Worker, 1934
The ruling clawss by A. Redfield New York, Daily Worker, 1935 (cartoons)
Hunger and revolt: cartoons, byJacob Burck New York, Daily Worker, 1935
Martin Eden by Jack London New York, Daily Worker, 1937
^Pederson, Vernon (January 11, 2008)."Take It As Red".On The Media forNational Public Radio. Archived fromthe original on August 21, 2008.Founded in 1924, the Daily Worker – which ceased to be a daily 50 years ago – was the de facto house organ of American Communism.
Fetter, Henry D. "The Party Line and the Color Line: The American Communist Party, theDaily Worker and Jackie Robinson."Journal of Sport History 28, no. 3 (Fall 2001).
Gottfried, Erika, "Shooting Back: TheDaily Worker Photographs Collection,"American Communist History, vol. 12, no. 1 (April 2013), pp. 41–69.
Lamb, Christopher and Rusinack, Kelly E. "Hitting From the Left: The Daily Worker's Assault on Baseball's Color Line". Gumpert, Gary and Drucker, Susan J., eds.Take Me Out to the Ballgame: Communicating Baseball. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002.
Rusinack, Kelly E. "Baseball on the Radical Agenda: The Daily and Sunday Worker Journalistic Campaign to Desegregate Major League Baseball, 1933-1947". Dorinson, Joseph, and Woramund, Joram, eds.Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream. New York: E. M. Swift, 1998.
Smith, Ronald A. "The Paul Robeson-Jackie Robinson Saga and a Political Collision".Journal of Sport History 6, no. 2 (1979).
Evans, William Barrett. "Revolutionist Thought in the Daily Worker, 1919-1939". Ph.D. diss. University of Washington, 1965.
Jeffries, Dexter. "Richard Wright and the ‘Daily Worker’: A Native Son’s Journalistic Apprenticeship". Ph.D. diss. City University of New York, 2000.
Rusinack, Kelly E. "Baseball on the Radical Agenda: The Daily and Sunday Worker on Desegregating Major League Baseball, 1933-1947". M.A. Thesis, Clemson University, South Carolina, 1995.
Shoemaker, Martha Mcardell. "Propaganda or Persuasion: The Communist Party and Its Campaign to Integrate Baseball". Master’s thesis. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1999.
Hemingway, Andrew.Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2002.
Schappes, Morris U.The Daily Worker: Heir to the Great Tradition. New York: Daily Worker, 1944.
Silber, Irwin.Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.
