The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21
Report on the Thesis, Delivered to Plenum of
Central Committee By Comrade Bro1gder,
April srd, 1880.
(Continued)
XI. MASS PROPAGANDA AND NEW
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XII MASS PROPAGANDA AND NEW
CADRES.
Of course the Daily Worker as our leading
organ Is not everything-we must develop
much further mass circulation OF literature,
which we have begun in small way this year.
Since the beginning of January, our Party has
distributed three and half million leaflets. For
March 6 alone we distributed pa million leaf
lets. This is only the beginning of what we
mean when speaking of mass propaganda, mass
agitation. We have begun mass propaganda
work in distribution of pamphlets. Our recruit
ing pamphlet was distributed over 10000, I'm
employment 10000 copies, etc. This is only
a beginning. This must be continued and null
tipIed. We must have pamphlets running into
editions of hundreds of thousands-cheap
pamphlets, SC pamphlets which every worker
can carry 10 or Is in his pocket and as mat
ter of course make it his business to sell to
every worker he comes into contact with In
addition to mass propaganda and agitation
we must have more development of political
study and reading especially among leading
cadres of our Party. One of the disgraces of
our Party is that the theoretical monthly, the
Communist, is not even read by all our district
functionaries. How is it possible for us to raise
the political level of our Party, to transform
our political program into mass terms if we,
who are to do this, ourselves do not master
the theoretical problems which confront us?
In. carrying through this mass work-in the
development of trade unions as mass organ
izations, we must emphasize these. points that
We're brought out in yesterdays report on the
trade union question. We must bring forward
mobilization of our Party forces into revolu-
tionary trade acknowledgement of cadres,
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ism. as,a ..-.
l want to speak especially about the mobil-
ization of the Party for trade union work and
the development of cadres. This is directly
connected with the problem of activising our
whole Party-with the problem of self-critic-
ism and promotion of leadership from the
ranks. Without self-criticism the Party cannot
be bulit-the trade unions cannot be built.
We must have systematic promotion of new
leading forces from the bottom up. Our big
mass campaigns must be integrated with such
immediate campaigns as the preparations for
May Day. May Day gives US one of the con-
centration points of all our campaigns. The
Party must understand all of the details of
May Day, preparations for May Day and de-
velopment of the political mass strike-carry-
ing forward all traditions of May Day to new
high level. May Day must be an extension and
broadening Ol august anu MdrCH U.
VII. OUR WORK AMONG NEGROES.
We must give much more systematic, care
full, stubborn organized attention to our work
among the Negroes. We have made progress
in this work-Recruiting Drive was demon
stration of this. We recruited approximately
1000 new Negro members But l am afraid
that if we begin to congratulate ourselves on
this fact we will wake up in few months to
find those that have been recruited have, most
of them, drifted away from us. There is very
grave danger this recruitment of Negroes that
has been made was too much on the basis of
general propaganda-that we haven't made suf-
ficient preparations for assmiliating these
Negroes into the Party. If we do not assimil-
ate these new Negro members into Party life,
organizationally consolidate them as a perma-
nent part of our movmeent, we have failed in
the most crucial political task placed upon us
at the present time. We must concentrate at
tention upon this task
We have to clarity also the role of the slogan
of determination in our Negro work. In
the first draft thesis that was sent out to you
we, formulated the question in the words:
self-determination of Negroes up to point of
separation" Since this thesis was sent we
have received information about discussion
that took place in the Comintern on letter
that they are sending us Negro work. We
haven't received this letter yet but the infor-
nation that We have in advance about its con-
tents and the discussion that took place around
it, shows certain proposals were made with
regard to the slogan, self-determination, pro-
posing to make this slogan of immediate
political action in the United States. This of
course is proposal that is far removed from
the realities of development in America and
would be wrong. This proposal having been
crystallized around the perfectly correct for
mutation, sef-determination to point of separa-
ton, has showed that it would be tacticaly
incorrect for us to emphasize at this time the
point of separation" of our slogan.
z =: KILL AGRARIAN WORK.
A word about the farmers. We have been
developing an agricultural program which will
be presented to the Party Convention. We will
not have much time to discuss it here. You
should take note of the fact, however, that this
agricultural program is certainly not too early
but rather little late. And now with the ex-