The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-28
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SoSc Questions.

SorSe Questions
THE Party must conduct ruthless and
searching examination of the various auNl-
liary organizations The question must be
posed and honestly answered in connection with
every one of the auxiliaries SIS this auxiliary
fulfilling its purpose-that of drawing non
Party workers into one or another form OF
workingclass activity? If not, then what is the
misunderstanding personnel or the form OF
the organization scrapping it entirely?"
Only in this bold manner can we approach the
question and finally solve it,
Unless these mass organizations have GER
tain organizational life of their own, they have
no value. Where they merely repetitions
of the Party or other organizations, they are
no good. This has been true to large extent
in the South. Workers in the hundreds of little
mill villages in which the National Textile
Workers Union has been doing work have been
urged to join the LID, the W.IR., etc, ind-
vidually. Since the most active elements gen.
orally joined the union first, what happened
was that the LID. and W.IR. were composed
of these same workers. Because of this fact
and the organizational backwardness of many
of the workers, there was confusion, and the
auxiliares like the LID. and W.lR. could
have no separate organizational existence. 1t
was therefore necessary for the comrades in
this question, decisions which might be well
studied by comrades working under similar con-
ditions They were in substance: Cd That in
mill villages and in other towns where the
great majority of the workers are textile work
ers, the local union of the N.T.WU u. affiliates
directly to the LID. Tor the WLR.) as body,
thus aboishing individual membership cards
and duties. The local pays utilization fee to
the LID. and certain sum periodically. The
same applies to the relationship between the
youth sections and the youth organizations like
the Labor Sports Union-the youth sections
affiliate directly to the Labor Sports Union
one member of the youth section functioning
as sports director and L.S.U. secretary. (2)
Where the mass organizations have a chance
for separate, distinct organizational existence
there we build auxiliaries. That is to say, IN
a large city or town where there are workers
of different industries not yet organized into
mass unions and, let us say, an LID. branch
will not duplicate any other organization, but,
on the contrary, will contribute to the other
phases of the work, there an LID. branch
should be organized, for there it has the pos
sbity for separate life, organizational and
political existence and not paper existence.
Drives.
The conducting of drives, especially those
where funds are a great objective, must be
very strictly centralized, coordinated and super
vised by the Party. Too often simultaneous
drives will go on. The same mailing lists will
be gone over and over. The same groups of
workers will be approached time and time
again until they are weary of being approached
for funds. An example of this sort of thing
was this last summer when, simultaneously,
Gastonia drive and campaign to get tractors
for the Russian peasants at the time the So
Wet flyers arrived, took place. Of course,
political events necessitating campaigns do not
occur at times most convenient for the work
ing class. Nevertheless, financial drives can
be so worked out that there will be no serious
conflict. A further necessity in the work of
the drives of the various auxiliary organiza-
tons is that the Party controls very strictly
the outlay of all funds. There sometimes is the
tendency for a particular organization or its
representative to dominate the application of
a policy in given situation just because that
representative has control of the purse strings
in that particular drive. This demands the
strictest control by the Party.
Auxiliary Papers.
Another one of the serious organizational
tasks is the careful check-up on all the auxli-