The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-29
N. Y. MUNICIPAL
ELECTIONS FIRST
ACITPROP TASK
Campaign Committees IN
Full Swing

NEW YORK, Sept. 27-The most
important task before the party In
this district for the next few weeks,
the mayoraIty campaign, was the or
der of business at the first meeting
of the agltprop committee of the New
York district. Comrades 5imba, Her
berg, Olein, Grecht and Wolfe of the
committee and others Interested were
present.
A campaign committee of eleven
was elected which was subdivided
into a research committee (Trachten-
berg, Potash, Bosse), to get together
material for speakers, for publicity
for the press, for our comrades in the
unions, ETC.. speakers committee
(Grecht, Darcy, Wolfe) which is in
charge of the class at the Workers
Scnool in Political Issues and Their
Presentation, class which trains
campaign speakers; a press and pub
licity committee (Robins, Hoffman,
Benjamin, Trachtenberg, Darcy,
Bosse) which will take care of report I
ing the progress of the election cam
paign, issuing leaflets, and the like.
A committee was elected to prepare
for the opening of the Workers
School, which will probably not be un-
til the beginning of November, be-
cause of the stress of campaign work.
This committee CBimba, Wolfe,
Grecht, Minded. and Y. w. L. repre-
sentative) will get to work immedi-
ately on courses, instructors, register
ing students, and making complete
preparations for the school year. Its
big task will be the raising of the edu-
cational level of the party members
In the district by putting as many as
POSSIBLE thru an elementary training
An the ABC of Communism, of an es-
Eentially political and practical nature,
Especially in its bearings on the reor-
Examination and Bolshevization 'of the
party.
Comrade Wolfe, the district agit-
prop director, reported that the class
in political issues and their presenta-
ton had started last Saturday with
an attendance of 25 and would meet
every Saturday, at 2 p. m. The first
hour would be devoted to discussing
and clarifying the material to be
used, and as an aid to this, a mimeo-
graphed bulletin was being published
containing this material. The rest Of
the session was given to practice in
speaking on the data discussed, with
special emphasis on effectiveness in
speaking. After the elections this
group would be kept together for any
other campaign the party engaged in,
as a permanent corps of agitators and
speakers. Any comrades in the dis
trict who are interested or who can
be useful in this, or in any other
phase Of agitprop work mentioned in
this report, should get in touch i'm
mediately with Comrade Wolfe at the
school Office Students at college,
teachers, research workers. and 9TH
rs with some training along research
lines are also needed.
A section of the research commit
Aee Of the campaign committee, got
together Tuesday night, and planned
the work, divided it, assigned it, and
viii be ready to report to the speak
ars class on Saturday the data on the
data on the mayoralty candidates in
N Y c., their attitude toward labor,
their past records, and the like.
Other comittees organized were the
library committee, which Comrade
Grecht is in charge Of, and the audit
ing committee, darcy and Kitzes) |
which viii put in shape for the COM
sng year the affairs Of the Workers
School and library. We have the
names OF some 80 comrades, outside
OF the class, who have volunteered to
help on agitprop work, and want as
many more. The industrial work of
the district, the party reorganization,
mass education work, training of
party functionaries, etc, all require
research workers, organizers, clerical
workers, and any other sort of COM
rades willing to help, whether they
think they are qualified or not We
viii guarantee to give them useful
and interesting work that they will
be able TO do, or that can be done
under the direction Of better trained
comrades, who will teach them while
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