The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-20


given them. Every Party unit should
at once canvass the membership of its
unit Of the organization and pick out
the three members of the Party unit
who nearest fulfill the description
above.
Duties Of Membership Committee.
The duties of the Membership Com
mittee are threefold. One: the Mem
bership Committee must take the
necessary action to see that every
Party member regularly pays dues to
the organization. Second: It must or
ganize persistent campaign to OBJ
tain new Party members Third: 1t
shall assign work to every member
of the branch 80 as to draw all the
potential strength of the Party into
the work we are carrying on.
A Membership Committee which sets
to work to carry out these three tasks
theoretically can, in single months
time double the working efficiency in
a Party branch. 1t can improve the
dues payments so that we will not
have picture such as the table above
shows. 1t can organize so tTSt new
members are regularly brought into
the organization. 1t can give some
work to every member of the branch,
thus increasing the amount of work
which the branch does.
Collection Of Dues.
The Membership Committee should,
at the end of the month, examine the
branch records to see whether all
members have paid their dues. 1t
should see that the financial secretary
notifies those members in arrears and
carries on persistent campaign to
collect back dues and to induce all
members to pay their dues regularly
monthly.
Toward this end, the Membership
Committee must conduct campaign
to see that every member who has not
good excuse, shall attend his branch
meetings regularly, and that those who
neglect to pay their dues are called
before the branch for explanation in
case of persistent neglect in this
respect.
IF members are out Of work, they are
entitled to exempt stamps and should
secure the stamps as evidence of their
good standing in the Party. With
roperly functioning Membership Com
mittee, we will have $4,000 Party mem
bers paying dues regularly by July list.
Campaign for New Members.
The second task of the Membership
conduct a systematic campaign for
new members. In carrying out this
campaign, it should adopt the follow
ing plans:
1. 1t should secure list of the read
ers of all Party papers in the territory
which the branch covers and assign
Party members to visit these readers
who are not Party members and en-
deavor to induce them to join the Par
ty. Subscription lists of Party papers
have recently been sent to District
Organizers who in turn were instruct
! ed to furnish lists to the respective
Party units.)
2. The Membership Committee
should, periodically, ask each mem
Der of the branch to come before it
and should secure from such members
the names and addresses of sympathiz-
ers for the purpose of bringing them
into the Party organization.
8. The Membership Committee
should see to it that at every open
Party meeting where non-members are
invited, an invitation is extended to
those present to join the Party.
A. The Membership Committee
should maintain mailing list of SYM
pathizers to be built up by securing
names from Party members, and by
using the mailing list of the Party
branch and other means, send liter
ature to these sympathizers from time
to time and should invite them to
come to the branch meetings and at
tempt to get them to join the Party
when the ground is sufficiently pre-
pared.
5. The Membership Committee
should see to it that every Party mem
Der who is working in a non-Party
organization such as a trade union,
cooperative, or fraternal organization,
makes an effort to draw into the Party
those members of such organization
who are sympathetic to our Party
1t is not sufficient that we should
carry on general propaganda for in
dividuals along the lines outlined
above and the Membership Committee
should be charged with the duty of
seeing that these appeals and invita-
tons are made.
Assignment to Party Work.
The third task OF the Membership
Committee is the assignment of all
Party members to work for the Party
Organization. For this purpose, the
Membership Committee should create
a file Of the Party members thru build
ing up a card file in which there shall
be noted the organizations to which
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