The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-12
BY HARRIS CLERON
Might Workers Br. Section l, n. Y

Might Workers Br. Section l. n. "
OUR unit is isolated from the section because
1--WE work at night and the section function
aries work day time the only time the section
functionapies visit the unit is when they want
to collect some money. During the recruiting
campaign for 5000 new Party members, our
unit I'm general was very inactive, with no
guidance to carry out our work. Suddenly we
mad report that our unit went over the top
of its quota because the majority of our mem
bers are food workers and the Food Workers
Union recruited some new members and we
will get the credit This was accepted by the
Section Committee without criticism. Those
few new members that we recruited we did
not take care of After they were accepted
in the unit they did not get their membership
books for six or seven weeks. The Unit Or
ganizer put the blame on the section and the
section on the unit Our unit Bureau did not
function at all, and after a strong fight we
started to meet-30 minutes before the unit
meeting. | objected to this procedure and fin
ally we started to meet days before the unit
meeting, but the Buro meetings were and still
are not on a functioning basis l feel guilty
myself to a certain extent. The Section Or
ganizer made gesture to remedy the situa-
ton but did not take serious steps.
While / was fighting bureaucratism, l felt
unconsciously that there were a few cases
started.
1. Comrade Bulwark of the Freheit was six
or seven months behind dues without even
attending any unit meetings. He came one day
and asked to be in good standing, and he asked
for exempt stamps and to pay few months
because he works for the Party. l objected
becaus. the same comrade came to our unit
with some stories about one year ago. The
case went to the Control Commission and Com
rade Bulwark was found to be guilty.
2 Cemrade Chorover was working in the
Book Shop of our Party. He permitted HIM
self to be behind dues for six or seven months.
We sent his case to the Control Commission.
The decision of the Control Commission was to
give this comrade a chance because he stated
that he was making only SIS week from the
book shop, and to give him an exempt stamp
for the days wages. l objected to the decl-
sion and an investigation followed in the Party
Book Shops books and it was found that he
made on the average of S35 week.
s. Comrade Carras told me that he could not
come to unit meetings, because he worked too
many hours and he wanted to pay his dues and
be given transfer to night unit Ten weeks
later he came and paved 10c 25c, SOC and 75c,
but the majority of the time he paid 10c a
week. fought against this, but with sue
cess. Our unit has about seventy to seventy
five members on paper, with a regular at
tendance of twenty to twenty-five. The records
of every members activity is not known even
to the Unit Buro. The section committee again
made gesture to divide the unit into two and
three units, about six weeks ago, but we still
have the same chaos.
While there is some Improvement in the unit
functionares, we are still in the second period.
AS I stated, the section committee does not
direct and visit the unit. We have to go to
the section and this takes one hour and more
for the simplest questions.
The Food Workers Industrial Union.
After the failure of the drive to organize
the unorganized last November, the Office
Committee modified the fraction and the union
membership to revive the drive. Various COM
n,ittees We're elected and plenty of talk of the
developmnt of the rank and file leadership.
We heard the so-calld self criticism about not
being prepared to capture the. A.FW. conven-
ton, but we had a chance on the memoran-
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