The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-09
By X. BAkER

By Il. BAKER.
ONE of the principal tasks i'll Bolshevization
of our Party is to overcome the organiza-
tonal looseness and opportunist attitude to
Party discipline, the remnants of which still
cling to our Party.
The weakest link in the structure of our
party is the basic unit.
The weekly dues payments, the weekly unit
meetings, the organization of unit buros and
the activizaton of all members are some of
the measures taken by the Party to put our
basic units on a Bolshevik organizational basis.
In examining the life of our units, a decisive
improvement is obvious over the old forms,
methods and activities.
However, our units still have many serious
shortcomings most of which are of an organ
national character.
Most of the weaknesses hinge around the
unsatisfactory functioning of the unit buro.
The Unit Buros in a Bolshevik Party are
actually the leading committee of the basic
unit they make decisions within the scope of
their activity that binding on the unit
members. Thu unit buros possess authority
and power to make decisions on all phases Of
work and determine which of the unit prob
lens shall be discussed and decided upon by
the membership meeting of the unit
The unit membership meeting has the power
the unit buro.
However such actions do not take place UNI
der normal conditions unless the buro is COM
posed OF comrades who are incompetent or
have serious political differences with the unit
as a whole.
The above is correct application of the
principle of democratic centralism in Com
munist Party.
Out unit buro up to the present time met
and discussed all the problems and formulated
proposals for each of these problems which
were brought into the unit and again discussed
point by point and finally voted upon.
The result was that the initiative and the
authority of the unit buros not devel-
ored and their effectiveness was destroyed
Today we still have the situation where the
agenda of unit meeting contains 10 to -
points and the meeting lasts 8 to hours most
of which is spent on details of relatively small
Importance, each of which should have been
finally decided upon by the turo.
Such matters IS to who shall sell the Daily
Worker Wednesday who shall bring the
platform to the street meeting, leaves of alb
sepce. transfers, disciplinary action and on
must be decided by the unit buro.
The unit buro being composed of the most
developed, 1ctive and reliable comrades is best
fitted to take action on the detail routine prob
lens of the unit as well as to outline the main
political activities.
This method of work leaves the unit meeting
free from details and creates the possibility
for thorough discussion of the main prob
lens.
The unit membership must recognize that
after a unit buro is elected as the leading COM
mittee OF the unit it must have the necessary
authority and power to make binding decisions
The essence of the principle of democratic
centralism consists in the democratic election
of the leadership and accepting and fulfilling
Of the decisions passed by this Leadership
whether on the unit, section, district or ma.
tonal scale.
The meeting of the unit membership is held
for the purpose of clarifying the membership
on the main tasks Of the Party and assignment
Of work and activity to members for the period
between meetings. Only such problems are
placed before the membership meeting which
will result in the Improvement of the work,
raising of Bolshevik efficiency and the thcoret-
ical level of the unit. BY improving the inner
life and functions of unit. we create the