The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-24
LAST HOUR DRIVE
FOR SIGNATURES
in 9Th DISTRICT
Must Work Hard to Put
Pellegrino on Ballot

Are you member of any one of
the following Workers Party branch.
es?
Cicero Young Workers League,
Lettish Branch, Czecho-Slovak, No. 3,
Czecho-Slovak North Berwyn, Czecho.
Slovak Cicero, Cicero English, Cicero
Italian, Douglas Park English, Doug
las Park Jewish, Scandinavian West
Side, West Side Young Workers
League, John Reed Young Workers
League, Lithuanian No. "A.
If you are, you belong to the Sixth
Congressional district, and your can
didate is Frank Pellegrino. What
have you done to help put him on the
ballot?
If you have not done your share,
and Pellegrino does not go on the
ballot, it will be your personal fault,
and l trust that the City Central com
mittee will find ways of making you
feel your responsibility in this fail
ure. Communists are workers, not
shirkers.
Sunday, Sept. 27.
You have one more chance to do your
share of this work. On Sunday, Sept.
q, special drive for the needed sig.
natures will be conducted by District
6. Every member of the above men
toned branches is urged to come to
1922 Douglas Park Blvd. and get his
assignment
A true Communist is not he who
simply pays dues regularly and at
tends meetings where he sits by nice
ly and quietly listening or taking part
in abstract discussions. A true Com.
munist is he who does this plus work,
more work and still more work when
the call to action comes from the
proper body. A true Communist is a
good soldier. One who knows how
to take orders and carry them out eff
fectively.
A true Communist is he who recog-
nizes that when his Central Executive
Committee has pondered over a ques-
ton and finally come to a definite
decision, all lower units must carry
out the policy of the c. e. c., regard
less Of personal opinions. The get
ting Of signatures for Pellegrino is
not the within of the City Secretary,
or the decision of the c. C. c., or the
order of the District Organizer. 1t is
the giving of life to policy decided
upon by the highest body of our party
the Central Executive Committee.
Must Carry out Work.
After careful and deliberate consid.
Grafton our C. E. c. decided that our
party shall enter into the election
campaign. Every lower unit ,imme-
diately proceeded to pass the decision
on and lay plans for carrying it out.
Your duty as soldier in the ranks
is to help carry out this decision. To
give it life by securing the signatures
which will make it possible to put
the candidate in the field and so con-
duct real aggressive campaign from
now until November. You will not
be called upon to make speeches. You
will not be called upon to write ar
ticles. But you can make it possible
for the party to have an opportunity
to send speakers in the field who will
make Communist talks to the work.
ers. You can provide this opportunity
to the party by putting the candidates
on the ballot And there is only one
way Of doing that-by getting the re-
qired number of signatures.
1t is no easy job to conduct a ma
tional campaign To get the right
speakers for the right places. To run
street meetings. To publish pam
phlets on timely subjects written
from the Communist point of view.
To get daily campaign message to
the workers. And to do it all on a
shoe string All this the party will
have to debut it must first get the
candidates on the ballot.
Give This One Sunday.
Is it asking too much of us to give
up ONE Sunday morning to the get
ting of a few signatures, as compared
to the gigantic task ahead for the
party? District will not get its can
didate on the ballot unless more sig
natures are turned in. We have not
enough so far, because only hand
full of the members have taken their
responsibility seriously.
But we can still do it. There is no
reason to fail. We have IL branches
in our district and all we need is an
other 1000 signatures. II each branch
sends only ten members next Sunday
morning, we can get more than the
required 1000 signatures. With one
hundred comrades, divided into
groups of twos 1t will only be neces.
sary of each group to get 20 sigma
lures. That is easy! Those Of us
who have been out know how easy It
is.
NOON OF MONDAY, SEPT. 2sth
is THE CLOSING HOUR FOR REG