The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-13
BY WILLIAM z. FOSTER


THE Workers Party is young par
L ty. Whilst development has been
comparatively rapid, it has still long
road to travel before it can be called
Bolshevik party in the full sense
of the term. Particularly our party
is weak organizationally. 1t is not
firmly knit together, nor is it sufici-
emily mobile and responsive to its
tasks. During the party's existence
we have conducted much important
and successful activity on the econ
omic and political fields. Consequently
we have been able to WELD a great
amount of influence upon the theology
and struggles of the American work
ing class. But in all of our activity
during these years of persistent and
energetic work, the party has not
made the progress that it should have
done in building up the size of our
membership and in welding what
members we have into compact and
cohesive whole.
Our party's organizational weakness
are to the greatest extent responsible
for our failure to take the maximum
advantage of the opportunities created
by our activities, to build up the size
and strength of our party. One reason
for this is that our party lacks cap
able organizers. We have not devel-
oped organizers to any degree COM
mensurate with our development in
other directions. Yet there is no lack
Of material in the party out of which
organizers may be produced. In per-
sonal contacts which l have made
practically everywhere in the country,
l have become acquaintanted with
many comrades who have the inher-
emit qualities which go to make the
most competent organizers. But in
most cases these comrades are not
developing these abilities nor are they
applying them effectively towards the
building of our party.
In the first anniversary issue of the
DAILY WORKER 1t is particularly
appropriate to point out the field open
ed up to US by our English language
daily paper for the development Of
organizers and for the organization
Of our party. Obviously one of the
best ways to build the membership Of
the party is by building the circula-
ton Of the DAILY WORKER. In fact
it is so obvious that in all too many
instances this way Of making the par
ty grow has been overlooked alto
.gether. But, although it is quite gen.
orally understood that by building the
DAILY WORKER we are also build
ing the Workers Party, 1t is not so
generally understood that in extending
the circulation of the DAILY WORK
Err there is an open road to the de-
velopment of organizers for our party.
Organizers are not born. They are
made. They are products of active
participation In the daily struggle.
They are made in the process OF doing
real organization work. In our party
we will develop the necessary organ.
izers by putting the membership, so
Iar as possible, systematically to work
upon organizational tasks. There is
no better school for organizers than
in the building OF the DAILY WORK
Err. This does not consist Of filling
the columns OF the DAILY WORKER
with theories of organization, but in
putting effective theories into practice
by the organized selling OF DAILY
WORKER subscriptions.
Here, in the building OF the circula.
ton Of the DAILY WORKER, lies a
field for the development OF Commun-
ist organizers, which is open to every
member Of our party. In the perform
ancs Of the systematic work necessary
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