The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
PARTY RECRUITING DRIVE

ism, class battles are the order of the day.
Our Party must undergo drastic changes in
its methods of work. This applies to work
among women in particular. In order to full
fill our task it will be necessary to reorientate
our Party for work among women. Our main
attention should be directed not towards house
wives and skilled workers, but towards the
factories, shops and mills of the unskilled and
most exploited Negro and white working
women. Practically no attention has been
given by the districts in recruiting Negro
working women into the Party. This will
have to be remedied
On Meeting Agenda
The district committees in laying plans for
the drive must have on the agenda a special
item, Working Women" this question to be
discussed by the entire committee, plans to be
laid based upon surveys of the factories in the
district which employ large numbers of wom-
en-. This important work cannot be left to
the WOmens Department alone. 1t must be
the work of the whole district machinery, as
integral part of Communist activities-or-
ganization, industrial, Negro, agitprop, anti
imperialist. The success in this direction will
depend on the manner in which we succeed in
modifying the district as whole for recruit
ing working women into our ranks.
In our preparatory work in this campaign,
We must place the question of recruiting
women, on the agenda of every meeting in
the districts, sections and units, trade union
and fraternal fractions. Only this will assure
adequate attention to the problem We must
gain members from basic industries, proletar-
ian women to better the present composition
of the Party
At the present time half of our membership
IF
are mainly needle trades workers, office work
ers, clerks, school teachers The geographical
distribution is also very bad, most of the men,
bers being concentrated in New York, Boston,
Chicago and other big cities. In the big in
dustrial sections where the large plants are
concentrated, in the South, in the textile
towns, we have practically no women men,
bers. In laying plans for reaching women and
recruiting them for the Party, each district
will be faced with the problem of COLOMBIA
ton. Forces from the cities will have to be
shifted to the smaller towns where the large
plants are concentrated. This is by no means
a small job and much consideration will have
to be given to this problem. The Young Com
munist League will have to be drawn into
this work-the comrades to be colonized will
have to be trained.
Only through full Communist understand
ing OIL the importance OIL WORK among women
and through carefully planned systematic
work, day in and day out, can we in practice
carry through the decisions of the Sixth
World Congress and the Fourth Congress of
the RILU, that of building a mass Communist
Party.
We must come out of this campaign stronger
organizationally, with more proletarian and
Negro members in the Party, more shop nu-
clei, shop papers, entrench ourselves in the
factories, build our Party apparatus for work
among women, build our unions, and the
auxiliary organizations, proletarianization of
leading committees, develop Communist forces
for work in the shops and factories. Our
slogans must be:
Working women enroll under the banner of
Communism!
Join the Communist Party of the U.S.A.,
section of the Communist International!