Daily Worker Not Sold Here!

Even Joe Stalin couldn't buy a copy of "The Daily Worker" in Cambridge. The Communist organ hasn't appeared on a local newsstand for over two years.

In order to get "the other side" of the news which the "Worker" presents, one must either travel all the way to Boston where it is still sold or read the often very late issues in the Widener stacks.

Felix's, the Mass. Avenue news store, which was the main local outlet for the paper, took it off the stands over two and a half years ago. The 25 sales made per week did not make up for the consistent criticism the proprietor received from patrons. Soon after it disappear from Felix's stand. The Capitol News Company, distributors of the paper the Boston area, stopped delivering Cambridge. "There just wasn't enough demand," said a Capitol spokesman.

For those who are eager to get it "straight from the horse's mouth," however, both Lamont and Widener carry Moscow editions of Isvestia and Pravda (in Russian).