Editing Daily Worker (section)

==History==

===Origins===
The origins of the ''Daily Worker'' were with the weekly ''Ohio Socialist'' published by the [[Socialist Party of Ohio]] in [[Cleveland]] from 1917 to November 1919.  The Ohio party joined the nascent [[Communist Labor Party of America]] (CLP) at the [[1919 Emergency National Convention]].

The ''Ohio Socialist'' only used whole numbers. Its final issue was #94 November 19, 1919. The ''Toiler'' 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 the ''Toiler'' was Vol IV #207 January 28, 1922. The ''Worker'' continued the ''Toilers'' numbering during its run Vol. IV #208 February 2, 1922 to Vol. VI #310 January 12, 1924. The first edition of ''Daily worker'' was numbered Vol. I #311.<ref name="Goldwater, Walter pp. 10, 30" />

The ''Ohio Socialist'' became '''''Toiler''''' 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|date=August 2023}}

In December 1921 the "aboveground" [[Workers Party of America]] was founded and the ''Toiler'' merged with ''Workers Council'' of the [[Workers' Council of the United States]] to found the six page weekly '''''The Worker'''''.

This became the ''Daily Worker'' beginning January 13, 1924.<ref name="Goldwater, Walter pp. 10, 30">Goldwater, Walter ''Radical periodicals in America 1890-1950'' New Haven, Yale University Library 1964 pp.10, 30, 42, 46</ref>

In 1927, the newspaper moved from Chicago to New York.<ref>{{cite web|title=Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection|publisher=Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive|url=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/photos_223/bioghist.html|date=September 2018|access-date=24 November 2018}}</ref>

===Popular front changes===
[[File:May Day parade float with male statue reading the “Daily Worker”.jpg|thumb|right|[[International Workers' Day|May Day]] parade float with statue reading the ''Daily Worker'']]

Beginning in the [[popular front]] period of the 1930s, the paper broadened its coverage of the arts and entertainment. In 1935, it established a sports page, with contributions from [[David Karr]], the page was edited and frequently written by [[Lester Rodney]]. The paper's sports coverage combined enthusiasm for baseball with the usual Marxist social critique of capitalist society and bourgeois attitudes. It advocated the [[Desegregation in the United States|desegregation]] of [[professional sports]].{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}  

===Post-World War II===
After a short hiatus, the party published a weekend paper called ''The Worker'' from 1958 until 1968. A Tuesday edition called ''The Midweek Worker'' was added in 1961 and also continued until 1968, when production was accelerated.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}} 

===Two newspapers and a merger===
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In 1968, the publication was resumed as a New York daily paper, now titled ''The Daily World''. In 1986, the paper merged with the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] weekly paper, the ''[[People's World]]''. The new ''People's Daily World'' published from 1987 until 1991, when daily publication was abandoned.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}

=== Contemporary claims of successors ===
The new paper was cut back to a weekly issue and was retitled ''People's Weekly World'' (later retitled to ''[[People's World]]'' as to de-emphasize the weekly component). Print publication of the ''People's World'' ceased in 2010 in favor of an online edition.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}} {{asof|2012}}, ''People's World'' claims that, "Peoplesworld.org is a daily news website of, for and by the 99% and the direct descendant of the ''Daily Worker''." Its publisher is Long View Publishing Company. The online newspaper is a member of the [[International Labor Communications Association]] and is indexed in the [[Alternative Press Index]]. Its staff belong to the [[Newspaper Guild]]/CWA, [[AFL–CIO]].<ref>{{cite web|title=About the People's World|publisher=People's World|url=http://www.peoplesworld.org/about-us|access-date=24 March 2012|date=2009-08-25}}</ref> 

Another publication, both in print as ''The Worker'' and online as ''Daily Worker USA'' states that it is "Continuing ''The 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=https://dailyworkerusa.com/about-us/|access-date=2024-04-11|website=The Worker|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Home|url=https://dailyworkerusa.com/|access-date=2024-04-11|website=The Worker|language=en-US}}</ref>