The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-24

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well as our continuous indus
trial activities. While carrying
on campaigns of this kind we
come in contact with many
non-Party people who are very
sympathies to our Party.
1t is during this kind of
Party activities that the oppor-
tunity for drawing new MEM
bers presents itself most, and
furthermore during these per-
liods of contact with the masses
we must continuously have in
mind the building and strength
ening of our Party.
We have two outstanding purposes
in our "united front" campaigns.
One is the extending Of our infiu-
ence among the masses of the work
ers and the other is to gain all the
organizational benefits possible for
our Party.
This membership drive campaign
is to be on a different basis than
that which we have Recently been
carrying on, and has as funda-
mental purpose the development
among our comrades of continuous
efforts to bring those that belong to
us into our Party. This campaign
is to be based mainly on individual
! efforts, in which the branch plays
an important part, insofar as it d.
reefs the work of its members in
this campaign. This plan we intend
also to help in developing more in
teresting branch meetings, as one of
our problems is to retain the mem
bers that join the Party and this
cannot be done very we'll if the
branch meeting is dull and uninter-
esting. The plan is as follows:
1. Party members while in contact
with the sympathizers with whom
they are working, be it in shop, in
dustrial nuclei meetings, or any Of
our united front activities are to
talk "Party'' and what it stands for,
pointing out that the Party is the
intator of and furthers these unit
ed front campaigns, which are based
on the life needs of the working
class, as, for instance: A Labor
Party, amalgamation, protection Of
the foreign born, ct. Comrades do
not necessarily have to go out OF
their way to talk to these sympa-
thizers-they are more or less in
contact with them at present in
their work. They must see to it
that these sympathizers are supplied
with literature occasionally, such as
the pamphlet, "Why Every Worker
Should Be Communist and Join the
Workers Party" the DAILY
WORKER, the Labor Herald and
any other such literature that the
comrades may think is appropriate
for the particular sympathizer. AZ
ter working on the individual or in
dividauls for short period OF time
he is to invite him to a branch
meeting, not necessarily his own,
where there will be a special speak
err who will make talk on some
live current topic, after which a
member of the branch will make an
appeal for new members. If the
sympathizer does not join at that
meeting, we must see to it that he
/ is brought to another meeting. We
must also make all attempts pos
sible to get the sympathizers to
come to our general mass meetings,
and other Party affairs, to instill in
him the idea that we are a live,
virile organization.
2. Branches must arrange their
I business so that at least an hour
and a half Of one of their meetings
month can be devoted to speak
ing, questions and a general discus
sion. The time of this meeting
should be definitely established.
Either the first meeting Of the
month, the last meeting Of the
month, or any other meeting of the
month that the branch wishes to set
aside for this purpose. This Is the
meeting to which the sympathizers
will be brought as above referred
to. The taking up of some business
at this meeting is desirable, provid-
ed It is handled in a snappy, BUSH
nesslike fashion. This will show