Daily Worker

The Daily Worker was a newspaper published by the Communist Party USA, a Comintern affiliated organization in New York, beginning in 1924. While it generally reflected the prevailing views of the party, attempts were made to make it a paper that reflected the spectrum of left-wing opinion. At its peak, the newspaper achieved a circulation of 35,000.

Further reading

Articles

• Fetter, Henry D. The Party Line and the Color Line: The American Communist Party, the Daily Worker and Jackie Robinson. Journal of Sport History 28, no. 3 (Fall 2001).
• 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).

Theses

• 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.

Books

• Hemingway, Andrew. Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2002.
• Schnappes, Morris U. The Daily Worker, heir to the great tradition. Daily Worker, 1944.
• Silber, Irwin. Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, The Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports. 248 pages. Temple University Press, August 1, 2003. ISBN 1566399742.