The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-24

| there indefinitely, 1t is understood.
committees. Where they are found
weak and not we'll functioning, they
should be strengthened by assigning
comrades with initiative.
This department should take care
that all non-active Party members
are being constantly visited and all
efforts used to draw them into activ-
tiles. 1t should outline the methods
for constant efforts to gain new
members, see that sympathetic ele-
ments are drawn closer, given Party
material and they be asked to become
members. The Organization Depart
ment should also assign the territory
of the various units for literature dis
tribution and for general canvassing
as well as union meetings and shops
for literature sales, etc.
Direction of Trade Union Work.
The Trade Union Department will
have many important functions. The
majority of our members do not as
yet belong to the trade unions. Many
of them are eligible now, others can
become eligible. In some cases union
membership may involve taking the
initiative to form new unions. The
first and foremost duty of this de-
partment therefore becomes the one
of assisting our members to join the
unions It must gather all the me-
cessary information, show our COM
rades how to go about the joining
and get them interested by showing
the great possibilities for work in
this field. In certain cases, it may
even have to help provide the neces-
sary money for initiation fees.
This department should check up
on attendance and activities of our
members in the unions, in the Party
fractions, and in the left wing
groups. 1t should be responsible that
such organizations, fraction and left
wing groups are established and that
they actually function. The Trade
Union Department should direct the
application of the Party policies in
the various unions, help to formulate
the practical slogans and give con-
crete expression to the issues of the
day. Thru such correct formulation
it should help find the ways and
means for the correct approach to
the broadcast possible masses of the
union membership in general and the
progressive and live trade union ele-
ments in particular.
This should not be mis-interpreted
to mean that the Trade Union De-
partment for instance of a section
or subsection committee would have
full jurisdiction with one local union
in their particular territory which
may be only one small part of the
union of the trade as whole in the
city. Naturally the City Committee
will direct the policies on a city-wide
scale.
Agit-Prop Work.
The Agit-Prop Department of the
charge of directing the training
courses carried on in the lower units
and thru the Party schools. 1t should
take full charge of the propaganda
and agitation part of our Party cam
paigns in it's local application, ar
range meetings, furnish the proper
material for the Party press and cir
cularize the necessary Party litera-
ture.
The Agit-Prop Department should
assist and supervise the issuance Of
shop bulletins in shops within their
territory. 1t should guide the editor
ial policy of these bulletins so that
Party policies become concretely and
practically expressed in the columns,
in language appropriate to the
masses and based on the problems in
the shops. The Agit-Prop Depart
ment should also take care that work.
err correspondents are on the job,
both Party members and, wherever
possible, non-Party members.
1t should, of course, be understood
that none of these departments men,
toned formulate their own policies
or their own tactics in directing Par
ty work. The leading executive COM
mittee will do that and assign the
particular part to each department to
work out in detail and carry out. The
number of members composing the
various departments, of course, dc
ponds on the size of the commit
However, in each case the organ
secretary should be the head
organization department, the
trial organizer the head of the
union department, and the agit-,
director the head Of the agit-prop.a-
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