I have been watching the Daily Worker's struggle for survival
with interest, and not entirely without admiration, for some time. What ultimate resources the Communist organ has behind it I do not profess to know. But it depends on donations from its readers to the extent of £3,750 a month, usually ends the. month far short of that target, and as the result of concentrated exhortations gets level before the next month is half over. Last Tuesday, May 1st, for example, £2,003 was still needed by the. April total, but by Thursday that had been reduced to £1,366., Twelve times £3,750, or £45,000, does not go far towards the expenses of a daily paper, but no doubt it helps. Now the Daily' Worker is to go up to 2d.—for only four pages. It remains to be seen how that will affect its circulation and its finances. But there is clearly a solid core of party loyalty here beyond what, ordinary commercial journals can command.
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