The Voice of Workers) was a Lithuanian newspaper published by the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania from July 1901 to April 1906 (a total of 36 or 40 issues).
After the Russian Revolution of 1905, the newspaper was replaced by the legal Naujoji Gadynė [lt] published in Vilnius.
The first issue of Darbininkų balsas was published in July 1901 in Tilsit (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast).
[8] Bibliographer Domas Kaunas [lt] argued that the newspaper was printed by Jankus from the beginning except for a short break in 1904 when there were disagreements about costs.
Donations from the United States were sent by the Lithuanian Socialist Party of America [lt] (established in May 1905) which increased its membership fee by 5 cents specifically in support of Darbininkų balsas.
[2] However, an analysis of surviving drafts shows that the first issues were edited by Bagdonas and Vincas Kapsukas.
[18] The Social Democratic Party was dissatisfied with Bagdonas' editorial decisions (e.g. he did not want to publish political articles and was afraid that Darbininkų balsas would compete with Varpas)[19] and, after three issues, replaced him with Augustinas Janulaitis who escaped from Lithuania to avoid the Tsarist police.
In early 1904, Jonas Biliūnas assisted with the editorial process, but he had to resign due to poor health.
[22] Vincas Kapsukas was dissatisfied that the newspaper spent little time on explaining ideas and theory of the labor movement and petitioned the party to intervene and replace Janulaitis.
Janulaitis protested the decision and resigned, but continued to edit the newspaper until the end of the year when Andrius Domaševičius became the editor.