The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1929, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, 5,000 New Members for the Party! Central Committee of our g Drive for our Party. er 10th, and continue for he month of November shall d overhaul the Party machinery with the Party’s esti- ecially the build- one phase of the of our Party mobilizing and leading the turning of these ty. Tt f the Com present situation al features of word crisis and an economic crisis, means a more n and brutal use of the the slashing of a , the inerease of unem- olt of the proletariat and favor- sthods of struggle, the en- nized in the class battles, into general s s, the ever- confidence of ion of the masses in the U. S., the he oncoming of a new rising tide of ement, raises coticretely the task of 2 time into a 3 Co unist Pa mds the orientation of the Part of s arty. The present situation towards new methods, new 8S organization, new w of ses—only by such tac by making use of methods for the organization of the working ill the Comm t Party be able to bring over to their side jority of the working class and to march at the head in the n dictatorship. Therefore, the must participate in and secure the leadership of ry struggle, every demonstration of the working omic battles of the workers iggles of the whole working nees of capitalist state, employers” organ- on a ceaseless propaganda for sk the Party still shows too slow the past and by deviations to the ness of this statement is verified many times over. t this time to point out: erovs strikes in all sections of the country, and as particularly exemplified in the South. 2. The leadership of the C. P. in Gastonia case and response of the masses. It T mobilization of over 100,000 workers on International Red me even participating in partial strikes. The excellent response of the workers to the TUUC, particu- ‘om the basi¢ industries and Negro workers. The attacks on the C. P. as evidenced in Chicago, California, , Gastonia, etc., as part of the offensive of the bosses as a whole. Party. Hereto this work has been c, and the tens of thousands of work- not kept by the Party because of the work of the Party and the factional regime which At present the whole objective situation the Party to overcome the shortcomings of ame to our ran! bad organiz: dominated and the new members. In this p s and War Danger, the Right Wing with the help of the ©. I. Our Pa has succes Right and mobilized the Party for the line of the process the former leaders of our Party, oftheir petty bourgeois followers have capitulated before the been cleaned out of our Pa: od culties and consequently have Today these in common with the Trots- kyites, the labor fakers and the entire bourgeoisie attack our Party gleefully. Our Recruiting Drive must and will be the effective answer of the working class to these traitors. For every petty bourgeoisie Lovestoneite we will gain a hundred proletarian shop workers. The entire Campaign must be carried thru in line with the mil- itant spirit of the working class. The Drive must ring with enthusiasm -—the membership, the units, the districts must be inculeated with the spirit of “Socialist Competition” which is carrying forward successfully the Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union. ORGANIZATIONAL TASKS 1. To improve the composition of the Party membership. 2. To orientate the Party completely towards the factories and organize the Party completely on the basis of factory ‘nuclei. 8. To strengthen the Party apparatus. - « 4. © build up and proletarianize the leading committees of the Party. 5.To build fractions and control their activity in the trade unions and other mass organizations. ‘i 6. To carry on more systematic organizational work in connec-- tion with all Party campaigns and activities. 7. Into the Mines, Mills and Factories with the Daily Worker. 8. To increase the work among the Negroes. 9. To inerease the work among women, 10. To build up the Young Communist League and the Pioneers. 11. To raise the ideolocical level in the Party, to’establish a real democratic centralism and Party discipline. 12, Education of the Party to the real meaning of the World Party. AIMS OF THE DRIVE: The Party Building Drive will Have for its concrete immediate aims: 1. The recruiting of 5,000 new members. 2. The establishment of 100 additional factory nuclei. The establishment of 56 additional factory papers, 4. The securing of 5,000 additional readers for the Daily Worker and increasing the circulation of the entire Party press. 5. The activization of the Party nuclei. 6. The building of the Young Communist League. The Party Recruiting and Daily Worker Building Drive must be conducted principally in the factories. This is true about our Party more than about any other Party, practically in the entire Comintern, because the builk of the American working class—practically all semi- skilled, unskilled and Negro workers is unorganized. Our Party Build- ing Drive, therefore, is not merely a matter of recruiting new Party members, but it is recruit them primarily in the factories among the workers in the basic industries. s In this recruiting drive, a great deal of attention must be paid to the recruiting of native-born and Negro workers. The Comintern in its Open Letter has, the following to say on the question: i Seese Bio 3. ® | { EW YOPK, FR ‘ail IDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1929 s ranks of the American workers, especially in the most important branches of industry, and also among the Negro workers, while at the same time retaining its position among che revolutionary immigrant workers.” This drive should be approached in a concrete manner, every dis- trict concentrating upon the most essential industries in its territo: as for example, the following should be the industries for each district in which they must primarily concentrate: District 1. Textile, shoe, metal. District 2, Waterfront, chemical, traction, needle, building, metal. District 3. Mining, Metal, Textile, ship building. District 4. Steel Railroad, shoes, textile, metal, District 5. Steel, mining, electric. District 6. Steel, mining, rubber, auto. District 7. Auto, furniture. District 8. Mining, metal, packing house, electric, building, ete. District 9. Metal, mining, packing house, flour mills, automobile. District 10. Packing house, mining, steel, etc. District 12. Lumber, Marine. District 13. Agricultura! workers, ship building, etc. District 15. Metal, textile. District AD Agricultural workers. The following shall be quotas for the new membets, factory nuclei and fac pers in the various districts: Shop Members Subs, Nuc papérs District 1 (Boston) fee -. 3800 300 10 3 District 2 (New York) - - 1000 1000 10 10° District 3 (Philadelphia) 300 300 5 2 | District 4 (Buffalo) 250 250 5 2 | District 5 (Pittsburgh) 500 500 10 3 District 6 (Cleveland) 400 400 10 5 District 7 (Detroit) 400 400 10 Bi | District 8 (Chicago) 600 600 10 T | District 9 (Minneapolis) 300 300 5 3 District 10 (Kansas City) 200 200 5 2 District 12 (Seattle) 200 200 « 5 2 District 13 (California) 200 200 5 2 District 15 (Connecticut) . 200 200 5 3 Agricultural District . 100 100 South 50 50 5 1 5,000 5,000 100 50 Special attention must be given to the building up of the newly established Southern District of the Party, rooting our Party in the textile, coal and marine industries and particularly establishi Party in New Orleans where some slight beginnings in activity are under way. BASIS OF DRIVE. The Recruiting Campaign must be bound up with and based on the various Party tasks, outstanding among which are: i 1. The struggle against capitalist rationalization and the capi- talist offensive, by organizing the unorganized, thru the building of the TUUL—organizing shop committees as the basis and intensifying our organizing activities in building the revolutionary unions. 2. Struggle against imperialist war and for defense of the Soviet Union, thru intensified agitational activities in the factories—thru the of the most militant workers | | the following advice from the Comintern in its Open Letter to our organization of anti-war shop groups—thru increased anti-militarist and anti-imperialist activities—thru the organizing of a Canadian- American Anti-War Congress, at the earliest possible moment. 3. Mobilization of the workers around the Gastonia convictions. | Intensive mobilization of widest strata of non-Party workers in Gas- tonia United Front Conferences—building the ILD out of these con- ferences—building of the NTWU in the South. 4. Campaign to organise the workers to defend the Party against the attacks of the government—pointing out attacks on Party as part of the offensive against working class as a whole. 5. Concentrated effort to establish our Party as the leader in the struggle of the Negro workers for political, social and racial equal- ity. Mobilization of the Negro proletariat under the banner of the Communist Party as the leader of all the struggles of the Negro workers jointly with the white workers. 6. Continued energetic struggle against Right danger—against Lovestoneites—against all brands and forms of social reformism. In the everyday agitation in the factories, we should bear in mind Party: “To place in the center of the work of the Party the daily needs of the American working class and especially (a) the demand for the 7-hour day and 6-hour day for underground workers and those engaged 1 in injurious trades, while exposing and waging-a systematic struggle against the capitalist methods of rationalization directed towards in- tensifying the exploitation of the workers; (b) the demand for all forms of social insurance at the cost of the employers and the state.” MOBILIZATION OF PARTY FOR DRIVE. 1. There shall be called immediately special meetings of all Dis- trict Bureaus to discuss thoroughly the Drive and lay out concrete application of the Drive. Functionaries’ meetings shall be held the third week in November at which a report shall be given on the Re- cruiting Campaign, linking up, of course, the genetal Party line as adopted at the Plenum. The fourth week of November shall be de- voted to reports, discussion and mobilization of all units. The first week in December there shall be arranged general membership meet- ings in the large cities, where a report. must be given on the Recruit- ing Drive and Daily Worker Building Drive. 2. Every Party fraction in the unions, ILD, WIR, ANLC, LSU, etc., shall hold a special meeting where the Drive will be reported upon and definite plans adopted. 3. At the mobilization meetings there must be distributed applica- tion cards, literature, Daily Worker sub blanks, and leaflets for the Drive, etc. 4, Every shop and street nucleus must discuss the various meth- ods of recruiting, and building the Daily Worker—what factories to concentrate upon; the issuance of factory papers, issuance of leaf- lets, assignment of new members for work, assignment of members to visit members who have stopped attending, training of new mem- bers, ete. 5. Every shop and street nucleus should divide -up among its members the various lists of sympathizers, connections, press readers, ete., with a view of definite and concrete recruiting to the nucleus. Rush “D a il y” South, Workers Slogan Nov.16 at Entertainment, Ball “Rush the Daily Worker to the South!” will be the slogan for thou- sands of New York workers when they gather at the Daily Worker entertainment and dance at Rock- land Palace, W. 155th St. and Eighth Ave., Nov. 16. The event will e. phasize the campaign to send 10,000 copies of the only English Communist news- paper in the world to tha south daily. The campaign forms part of the drive to spread the “Daily” among workers in basic industries throughout the country, Large delegations from New Jer- sey and Connecticut are ex to help pack the hall, which has capacity of 5,000, COMPLETE TOUR ' FREE SOVIET VISAS Send ts to the U. S. S. | | ° 4. See...... oe SOVIET RUSSIA: Be on the Red Square to Witness the Celebration of the 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF NOV. REVOLUTION eo Group Sails:—S.S. AQUITANIA—October 23 to ‘life, ete. 6. The Nucleus E. ilization } ive shall prepare the agenda for the Mob- much routin possible can be eliminated. ct Committee shall stimulate a definite spirit and | ition between sections and between nuclei. hould be ed and around this, work up general en- and mobilization, resulting in great gains in the Party. 9. The district should consider the issuance of special Drive Bul- letins giving information week by week to the units. 10. The National Office shall prepare all the necessary material prior to the opening of the Drive, such as, a special pamphlet, at least one leaflet, special Application Cards, listg of readers of the Party press, ete. \ my METHODS OF DRIVE. (a) Factories. 1. As already mentioned above, the main center of the Party Re- cruiting and Build Daily Worker Drive must be the factories. Every district, ion and nucleus must survey its territory and assign com- rades to concentrate in each of the factories, where the campaign is undertaken. The factories selected must bein line wiin the line of the Party to concentrate in the basic industries with special attention “to war industries. 2. There must be held factory gate meetings. 3. Special issues of the existing shop bulletins should be issued and where no factory papers exist every effort must be made to estab- lish Communist shop papers even if at the Beginning it is in the form of a two page leaflet. The Daily Worker and Party Press must be sold at the fac- tory gates and there must be organized special free distributions. The work must be linked up with the building of workers correspondents. 5. Special leaflets dealing with conerete events in the factory must be issued from time to time. 6. The factory nuclei must hold special meetings to which trusted sympathizers are invited to participate. 7. The street nuclei must concentrate their activities in one or more important factories. 8. Every effort must be made to build shop committees and draw the most mature workers in these committees into the Party: The building of shop committees must be connected up with the T.U.U.L. convention. 9. The districts must pay attention to “factory towns” where there is located basic industry and large plants. 10. Everyday agitation directly within the factories, and: indi- vidual recruiting must be carried on: (b) TRADE UNIONS— All Party fractions in the trade unions must be mobilized for carrying on the drive among the workers in the union, particularly concentrating on the left wing supporters. The work among the mem- bers of the trade unions must be tied up with the campaign for the Trade Union Unity Convention. (c) MASS ORGANIZATIONS— 1, The Party Building Drive must be utilized to bring the issues of the class struggles into the workers fraternal organizations. The Party fractions in these organizations must bring the Party campaign and slogans into these organizations and recruit members to the Party. 2, The Party Fractions in the T.U.U.L., I1.L.D., W.LR., Anti-Im- perialist League, ete., must consider these organizations as a fertile field for the recruiting of Party members. 3. All readers of the Party préss must be canvassed for Party membership. 4, All mass meetings, forums, etc., must carry on Party recruit- ing. Local neighborhood meetings should be organized. (d) REGAIN OLD MEMBERS— Many members have dropped out of the Party due to a series of reasons, such as poor organizational activities, factionalism, innumer- able and chaotic financial demands, language difficulties, lack of inner Many of them were proletarian, recently interested in our Party, who were not politically developed. As a part of our Drive we must take measures to bring these good elements back to our Party. Special committees should be created for visiting these workers on the uycleus blocks and bringing back to activity and membership. (e) LENIN MEMORIAL— The Lenin Memorial Campaign and meetings shall be utilized as an effective means of recruiting in the Party Drive. The Y. C. L. must similarly utilize the Liebknecht-Luxemburg Memorial meetings to build the Y. C. L. NEGRO WORKERS. The recruiting of Negro workers during the Drive must receive special atention. Meetings shall be arranged in Negro neighborhoods, | special literature issued, ete. Linked up with our Drive we must always push in the forefront our struggles against white chauvinism. In our campaign to win Negro workers to our Party, white comrades must. take an energetic part. . KEEPING NEW MEMBERS. In order to learn from thé past we must: 1. Interest the new member in the Party and its activity. Don’t allow him to sit alone or completely ignore him. 2. Assign the new member to specific activity together with a more experienced comrade or comrades. bs 3. The old members must show an example of Communist dis- cipline to the new member in all questions. When work is assigned, the old members must not decline, 4. The nucleus meetings must be well prepared and of an interest- ing character. Every nucleus meeting must have political content. 5. The District Agitprop must arrange to call two or three meet- ings of all new members at which the elementary principles of the Party will be lectured and discussed, 6. All financial appeals must be rationalized. The dues must be the main support of the-Party. Auxiliary organizations must be pro- hibited from becoming parasites on the Party., DAILY WORKER. The securing of 5,000 new readers for the Daily Worker is neces- sarily a part of the Recruiting Campaign. The Daily must become the newspaper of every new Party member. In our Recruiting Drive, not every worker approached will join our Party, altho we must strive to win every worker. These who feel they are not yet ready to join the Party must be drawn closer to the Party by subscribing to the Daily Worker. The*Daily Worker must become the agitator, educator, and or- ganizer of the Party. The Daily Worker is the Party spokesman. It reaches the workers with the Party message every day and on every question, The Daily Worker must be rooted in. the shops. Every NEW YORK , LONDON LENINGRAD MOSCOW \ WORLD TOURISTS. 175 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK i Flatiron “ ‘Telephone: “Algonquin, 6066 — 8797 | COMMUNIST PARTY RECRUITING DRIVE, DECEMBER 10 to FE Fer the Line of the Party Plenum! For the Strengthening of theParty! Build the Daily Worker Into a Mass Communist Organ! ® \ | 5,000 New Readers for the Daily Worker! Party organization in planning its Recruiting Drive activities mus provide for the Daily Worker aspect of the drive receiving adequate! attention, LITERATURE AND PUBLICITY. Every Party paver shall carry a regular Party Recruiting Drive Column. member of the editorial staff shall be delegated to take care of this column. However, the drive must permeate every column, every story, every handline of the Party Press—and every member of the staff must be drawn into the Drive. The workers correspondence must reflect the Party Drive in the shops. During the entire Recruiting Drive we shall strive to distribut as widely as possible the literature of the Party—especially that whic will be easily read by the workers. The following literature is tec ommended to concentrate upon: 1. “Why ry Worker Should Join the Communist Party” (rt being written, price to be announced later). 2. “Building Socialism in the Soviet Union.”—Leon Platt. 10 cents, 8. “The Party Nucleus.”—By Jenks, 15 cents. 4, “The Trade Unions and Socialist Construction in the USSR,” 15 cents, 5. “On the Road to Bolshevization,” 10 cents. 6. “Communist Manifesto,” 10 cents. 7. “Women in the Soviet Union,” 25 cents. SLOGANS FOR THE DRIVE. We should popularize and use the following slogans during the Drive: 1. Carry Into Life the Line of the Comintern Address. 2. Prepare for the Big Struggles That Are Coming by Building the Party. 3. Workers! nist Party. 4. Every Member an Active Member. 5. Every Member Get a New Member. 6, Every, Factory a Communist Fortress! Build Factory Nutlei. 7. Build the Daily Worker by rooting it in all basic industries. . Make the Daily Worker the Collective Organizer and Agita- tor of the Party. 9. Activize and Politicalize the Factory Nuclei. Answer the Bosses’ Attack by Joining the Commu- a 10. A Communist Factory Paper in Every Shop. 11. Win tie Negro Workers To Our Ranks. 12. Light the Right Danger. A Hunared’ proletariang Yor Ever Petty Bourgeois renegade, } 18. Help Build a Powerful Young Communist League. fee 3 14. Bvery Militant Worker a Member of the Communist Party. |. 15, Join the Party of Young Class! Join the Communist Party. 16. “Join the American Sec‘ion of the Communist International. .' ORGANIZATION DEPT., CENTRAL COMMITTEE, 7 COMMUNIST PARTY OF U.S. A. 4 1852, The Same Address Over 75 Years 1929 7a J ROPOLITAN SAVINGS BA ASSETS EXCEEDING $29,000,000 Deposits made on or before the 3rd Last Quarterly Dividend paid 1 ii | on all amounts from $5.00 AY. Y Pat { to $7,500.00, at the rate of, 2 ’ Open Mondays (all day) until 7 P. M. Society Accounts Accepted. . Travelers Certified Chi Banking by Ma‘ | We Sell A. B. i oO NOI Rockland Palace November 16 hy? BUILD MASS CIRCULATION FOR THE DAILY WORK- .ER! MAKE IT AN EFFECTIVE INSTRUMENT TO HELP FIGHT THE WAR DANGER, THE RIGHT DANGER, RATIONALIZATION; TO HELP DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION AND BUILD THE !PARTY! 4 4 4 > > > > > 4 4 > > PARTY MEMBERS: REGISTER YOUR ATTENDANCE! BRING WORKERS FROM. THE SHOPS! HELP ‘US REACH THE MASSES IN ALL INDUSTRIES WITH OUR OFFICIAL ORGAN—THE DAILY WORKER! . THIRD PERIOD Entertainment | and Dance ROCKLAND PALACE West 155th Street, Corner Eighth Avenue November 16, 19 VuvuVvVvVvVvVvVvY > > Wes BRUARY 10