The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
PARTY TASKS IN
ELECTION DRIVE
ARE POINTED OUT
Instructions Issued to
All Units

outstanding events IN the ponC1cal
life of the Workers (Communist)
Party All our conventions were only
representations from a score of
states. This Nomination Convention
will have representatives from almost
all states of the country and will pre-
sent the party as a truly national
party. The bulk of the delegates will
be such mass workers of our Party
who work in trade unions and other
mass organizations and among them
there will be we'll known old timers
of the movement, old S. P.-ites, Negro
workers; active women, etc.
Fraternal Delegations.
Zone of the features of the conven-
ton will be a large number of fra
ternal delegations from trade unions,
fraternal societies, federation of
working women and other women's
organizations, unemployed councils.
large unorganized factories, Negro
organizations, protection for foreign
born councils, delegates from all
American colonies, representatives of
the TUEL, of the Anti-Tmperialist
League, all defense societies, coopera-
tives, etc. Special delegations will
come from the striking miners and
textile workers.
Election of Delegates.
CAN delegates will be elected at
state conventions or conferences. The
delegates will be endorsed by mass
meetings, which should embrace all
Party members and the broad masses
of sympathizers, workers, and eX-
plotted farmers. In cases where such
mass meetings cannot be called, at
least a Party membership meeting
must be arranged in the cities from
which the delegates come.
I'm all cases, mass meetings must
be arranged upon the return of the
delegates from the convention. Dem
onstrations for workers ticket in the
elections must everywhere be the OBJ
ject of these meetings. Collections
to help defray the expense of the
delegates should be made.
THE method of election of the dele
gates may vary in the various dis
tricts and localities because of terri
tory and finances or other conditions.
Details about the selection of dele
gates will be given to you by your
District Committee.
Task of Your Unit in Connection
With the Nominating Convention.
"1. The Central Executive Com
mittee decided that your unit shall
undertake a thorough discussion of
this letter, with a view Of bringing
before the entire Party membership
the Importance of the election cam
paign and the issues in and the meth
DDS of conduct of the campaign.
SO. Your unit is to discuss these
issues and on the basis of them, make
any suggestions that you feel would
help in the conduct of the campaign,
or any suggestions in reference to
the platform, program to be adopted.
This is to be forwarded by you to
your District Committee, to the vari-
GUS state conferences or directly to
the National Conference, through the
delegation.
"3. Your unit is to select repre-
sentitives, Party members active in
the mass organizations, as delegates
to the state conference. Details will
be furnished by your District Com
nittee.
"a. All units must help raise finan
ces to enable as many delegates as
possible to come from the various
states to the National Nominating
Conference.
IS. Help in the arrangements of
mass meetings and membership meet
ings for the ratification of the dele
gates going to the conference.
''6. Take immediate steps for the
organization of meetings. on the
broadest scale possible, upon the re-
turn of the delegates, to discuss the
platform of the Communist Party
and the ratification Of the candidates
for president and ce-president
fNote Open factory nuclei meet.
ings should be called, inviting as
many sympathizers as possible, anC
also the street nuclei shall call neigh.
borhood meetings, inviting as many
workers as can be gotten at such
meetings.
~. The nuclei membership must be
mobilized to take up in the trade
unions, in the factories and the fra
ternal organizations, the Nationa
Nominating Convention, with a view
Of pointing out to the workers anC
bringing before them clearly that oul
Party is the only party Of proletariar
class struggle in the United States.
Getting the Party Ticket on the
Ballot.
''In order to conduct the election
campaign properly, we must get OF
the ballot in as many states as pos
sible. We can get on the ballot il
most states only by securing tht
necessary signatures legally required
In only a few states we can get or
through a state convention.
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