The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Workers Communist Party s
Social Affairs
Resolutions
District Five Holds
Agitprop Conference
in Pittsburgh, Pa.


prop conference held in Pittsburgh on
Sunday, Feb. IA, marks a new stage
in the development of the Workers
Communist Party, and layed the
foundation for carrying on real Com.
munist work. Eighteen agitprop direc-
tors and DAILY WORKER agents of
Pittsburgh, Brownsville, Cannonsburg,
Bradock, McKeesport and e. Pitts
burgh attended. The agenda worked
out by the agitprop committee includ-
ed: y Inner party education, classes,
lectures and discussion in all party
units. p Agitation and propaganda
among the broad masses of workers.
81 DAILY WORKER campaigns, and
workers correspondence ) A. Party
press and literature. 81 Immediate
campaigns of the party. g. May Day
meetings. y How best to finance
agitprop work
After discussion on each question in
their order the conference made the
following important recommendation
on inner party education that in Pitts
burgh every party unit must send at
least one comrade to the study classes
now being held, that an effort be made
to establish other classes where pos
sible. sgs
| An important discussion took place
- how to carry on the educational
work among those who do not speak
English. 1t was recommended that the
agitprop committee call conference
Of active workers from the language
sections to work out plans for Eng
lish classes and the extension of party
education among the foreign-speak-
ing comrades.
A series of public lectures to be ar
ranged wherever possible in the dis
trict dealing with the elementary
problems Of the working class, that
these meetings be well organized, and
advertised to make them self-support-
ing.
On The DAILY WORKER the con-
ference recommends % A campaign
to make every party member a SUBJ
scriber and if they cannot read them
selves that they subscribe for some
worker. (2) That every member of
shop nuclei must seek to build up the
subscriptions in the shop. In this con-
nection the importance of workers
correspondence was brot out showing
how the workers could write about
the problems in the shop and then
use these articles as a means of get
ting new subs, that nuclei order
bundles of The DAILY WORKER for
sale and distribution in the shop, and
follow up and get new subs, that or
ders and remittances for pittsburgh
be made to The DAILY.o WORKER
agent of the district.
A further recommendation was
made that The DAILY WORKER
agent and the agitprop director select
comrades to visit unions and other
workers organizations, to- speak and
solicit subs, and that where donations
are made that the money be used to
subscribe for workers unable to pay
for subscriptions
Immediate campaigns of the party.
the problem of proper Organization
and how to get the best results was
discussed and the Importance of these
campaigns to the party.
Regarding the eighth anniversary of
the founding of the Comintern and
the Paris Commune it was recon-
mended that the agitprop committee
arrange as many meetings as possible.
On May Day it was unanimously
agreed that Pittsburgh should hold
one big united front May Day meeting
either in Carnegie hall or some other
large centrally located hall. that a
call be sent out to all labor and work
ing class organizations asking them
to participate. 1t was also recon-
mended that in other towns in the dis
trict arrangements be made and halls
secured at once for May Day meet
ngs and that in these places the pol.
icy Of united front meetings be car
lied out.