The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-14
PRE-CONVENTION DISCUSSION
Reorganization in the Los Angeles
Section

primarily that had never been reached beforeK
by the Party. A larger number of Mexican
workers came to these meetings than to any
one large indoor mass meeting ever arranged
by the Party in this section. Encouraged by
these results the Party proceeded to organize
similar meetings on April oath for the purpose
of modifying for the 1st of May. The subject
of these meetings was May LIST. This time
eight meetings were arranged, altogether
eleven units participating; total of $4,000
leaflets were issued by the units for these
meetings, 10000 of these mimeographed, 5000
printed The leaflets were written and dis
tributed by the units themselves. Three of
the meetings were broken up by the police, one
was not held due to poor distribution of leaf
lets. Four of the meetings, however, were
highly successful. At one of the meetings
fifty Mexican workers attended, fifteen of
these joined the Party. At another meetings
where Negro comrades spoke, two Negro work +
ers and four others joined the Party. At theH
third meeting twenty-five Mexican workers
and over fifty others attended
Expanding Activities Worry Police.
The extension of Party activities are of
great concern to the local bourgeoisie and the
police. Owners of halls are visited by the
RED Squad" are appealed to and threatened
into refusing halls to Communist organiza-
tions The fact that Communist Party units
have been definitely established and have held
successful open meetings in the Negro neigh
borhood, the Mexican neighborhood and in
other entirely new working class neighbor-
hoods is of tremendous significance. This in
dependent activity as begun by the units paves
the way for serious factory work throughout
the city.
Organization of New Units.
Outside of Los Angeles proper it is not
question of reorganization. There it is a ques-
ton of building new units. The Party recruit
ing drive resulted in the organization of
Party nucleus in San Pedro composed of mar
inc workers. Since then two nuclei have been
established, one in. San Bernardino and Cotton,
the other in the Imperial Valley. This is
only beginning which is by no means salts
factory as yet The possibilities for the build
ing of Communist Party units in many impor-
tant cities and sections of this territory are
very great. The section still has the task of
seriously undertaking the building of the Par
ty organization outside of the city of Los An
gees proper.
Manifestations of Right Danger.
The fact that only section of the member
ship participated in all of the activities and a
large number of Party members were passive
and inactive was clearly brought out through
the reorganization. The reorganization i'm
poses great duties upon every member. The
units themselves call upon the membership to
participate in distribution, to carry out the
various activities of the Party. 1t became
more difficult for the passive elements to es-
cape unnoticed. The reorganization therefore
brought squarey to the passive members the
question of their activity in the Party. Among
the right elements there is grumbing and dis
satisfaction with the new organization of the
Party units. The elements that continually
state that "they cannot participate in factory
distribution" that they are too "tired," ETC.,
also speak of the good old times when units
were attended by as many twenty-five
comrades, five or ten of whom carried on the
actual work. At the present time the size of
the units is smaller, more comrades have to
be drawn into work. The experiences of re-
correctness of the organizational letter of the
c. |. which points out that many of the old
cadres become tired and passive whereas fresh
elements drawn into the Party work show revo-
lutionary will and understanding for work
much better than many of the so-called 1906"
revolutionists. The passive opportunist ele-
ments will automatically eliminate through
proper organization of work. check-up, ETC.,
and when called upon to work capitulate be-
fore the difficulties of the new forms of &C
tivties necessitated by the sharpening class
struggle. New revolutionary American ele-
ments and the best elements among the for
eign born workers take their place and sink
ever deeper roots into the masses.