The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11
THE PARTY ON
DAILY" ANNIVERSARY
Workers Who Read The Daily Worker Should
Join the Communist Party of U.S.A.
By ]. WILLIAMSON

small Communist Parties existing ID
those countries are not commensu-
rate with the enormous role which
these countries play in world affairs,
especially the United States" 70.
The task of creating a mass Party
can only come about thru the proper
forms of mass activity, in mobiliz-
ing the workers around the burning
political issues Of the day-in or
ganizing the unorganized and fight
ing ninorities of the A. F. Of l..
into the Trade Union Unity League
and in winning thousands of prS-
letarians to our Party from the fac
tories and spreading the influence
of our Party press, particularly its
central organ, the Daily Worker, as
as agitator e"- organizer of the
Party amongst - masses.
The present drive is not merely
to secure new members. It is q
Party Building Drive. This means
securing thousands of nelO men,
berS from the basic industries, so
the Party can be rooted amongst
the broad masses Of 1Oorkers IN
the shops. 1t also means taking
steps to change the base Of our
Party from street nuclei to shop
nuclei. And lastly, it means tho
building of the Party's central
organ, the Daily Worker, so that
it can be the spokesman Of the
Party to the broadest sectiQns Of
the 1Oorkers and serVe, IKE G.
truly BoLsheUist paper should, not
as a mere newspaper, but as "a
Party agitator, educator and or
dnizer." This means that in this
present drive, the Daily Worker
must secure 5000 ne1O subscribe
ers and many more thousands Of
readers. Simultaneously. the
Daily Worker must be an tnstru-
ment of the Party for fa,rthering
the drive and bringing the thou
sands of tVorkers into our Party.
1t is no mere accident that in
the South the textile workers de-
fend our Party and that the south
ern district of our Party is leading
prOpOrtiOnately in the recruiting
drive. Likewise in Detroit where
the auto workers have seen our
Party in action.
There is every opportunity to full.
fill the demand of the Comitern fol-
"the creation of broad mass Parties
in those countries GU. S. A. and
Brittany as the burning task of the
Comintern," providing the Party is
fully modified and the directives Of
the Central Committee adequately
and theoretically carried out.
The greatest difficulties are moi
to be found in any unresponsiveness
of the masses, but rather in the in.
adequate functioning and capacities
of our Party in many districts. II
this respect, the following quotation
from Comrade Kuissinen at the
Tenth Plenum, is part lily ap-
propriate:
q. the pursuit of the proper
political line is not only a politi-
cal, bat at the same time also an
organizationaL task By estob-
fishing the concrete line 1Ve de-
fine the immediate aims 4ohick
1Oe pursue on the road tolUards
Strengthening our revolutionary
positions. Yet the achievement of
these aims, preSupposes not only
the proper tactics and the proper
slogans, the proper agitation and
propaganda, bat also the proper
organizdtionnL measures The
leadership of each section Of the
CT, must understand the supreme
political importance of the appro-
pirate organization for carrying
out and enforcing the resolutions
which haze been passed"
In this spirit the Party is conduct
ing the present drive for 5000 new
members, 5000 new subscribers TO
the Daily Worker, 100 new shop
nuclei and 30 new factory papers.
The Daily Worker is the spokes-
man of the Party every day in the
year-it exposes the attacks of the
government, bosses and social re-
formists-it mobilizes the workers
for struggle against naturalization,
war danger, unemployment and the
offensive of the bosses against the
Party.
In the drive we have a three-fold
task in connection with the press
Firstly, to utilize it as an organic
ing weapon for the Party; secondly,
to further broaden the base and in
fluence of the Daily Worker itself,
thru bringing it to thousands of new
workers and sending it to them each
day, and, thirdly, utilizing the Daily
Worker as propagandist-an edu-
Gator, in keeping the new members
The Communist Party of the
United States was born out of the
struggle against the social-patriotic
Socialist Party, having as its driv-
ing force the success of the Russian
Revolution and the establishment OF
the Third (Communist) Interna-
tional. Immediately it found itself
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