Vol. 71/No. 15      April 16, 2007

A central goal of the eight-week campaign, which started March 31 and ends May 27, is not only to increase the paper’s readership in the working class but to convince more workers and youth to become active promoters of the paper.

Several readers sent notes describing progress on this score.

“The first day of the drive we met a subscriber, who recently renewed, to discuss politics and how he could get involved,” said Dan Fein, a garment worker in New York. “He is a hotel worker and member of the UNITE HERE union, who is now on disability. After some discussion, he got on the phone and signed up four of his friends for subscriptions.” The next day, Carmen Casado, another subscriber, stopped by a Militant literature table in the Inwood section of upper Manhattan. “She took three copies of the paper and sub blanks to show to her coworkers in the garment shop where she works,” Fein reported. “She told us, ‘Give me a week to sell the subs.’”

“Three of us sold 50 copies of the Militant March 31 at the entrance to the Swift packing plant in Worthington, Minnesota,” said Tom Fiske, a meat packer in Minneapolis. “Afterwards we sold three introductory subs and one renewal. Christian, a young Chilean in the Twin Cities who is a sympathizer of the Young Socialists, sold the most papers at the plant gate.”

The socialist newsweekly was well received at events to support the call for a national holiday to honor United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez in San Francisco and Salinas, California, last weekend. Twenty-one people at these events subscribed, reported Joel Britton, a meat packer in the Bay Area. Three of them bought the pamphlet The Working Class and the Transformation of Learning: The Fraud of Education Reform Under Capitalism at the $1 special offer with a Militant sub.

Join the effort! Order a bundle at 70 cents per copy, if you don’t already get one, or contact the Militant, or distributors listed on page 8, to get involved.

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