The daily worker., 1930-06-30
BY I. AMTER.
written in jail.)

NNIlllSH III JAM
THE Thesis of the Seventh Convention of our
L Party and the Communist international
warn us against the relying on the spontanelty
of the masses. Lenin continuously emphasized
the basic need of organizing our work in every
field.
Reliance on spontaneity is widespread in
the Party. This must bo overcome, and the Cen
trail Committee District Committees, Section
Committees, Unit Bureaus and every member
must have a definite task to carry out-taskS
which must be checked up and controlled.
Election Campaign Major Actions.
This applies with complete force to the cleo
ton campaign. The Central Committee has
pointed out that the election campaign Will be
a major activity of the Party. This does not
mean that the Party has gone back to the So
cial-democratic point of view of expecting to
sctivize the Proetarian Revolution through the
ballot The election campaign affords us an
opportunity of connecting up all the struggles
Of the workers and poor farmers with the ques-
ton OF government-in direct opposition to
the capitalist and social-fascist parties. 1t
furnishes US with a chance very effectively
to show up the connection of the tascists OF
the A. F. of L. Railroad Brotherhoods and
Amalgamated Clothing Workers with these
anti-working class parties-thus helping to
these parties.
Therefore the election campaign must be
utilized to the full to expose these parties and
place the Communist Party forward as the
leader of the working class in all struggles.
Organization Versus Spontanety.
The splendid demonstrations that the Party
led on March and May 1, the response of the
masses to our propaganda because of the econ
omic crisis and the sharpening struggle have
led the Party membership to rely upon the
spontaneous support of the masses for our
campaign Nothing could be more fatal for our
work The Party must organize itself and
organize the masses for all working class ac-
tions.
If, as stated, the election campaign is
major campaign, then it must be conducted di-
rectly by the District Bureaus, who shall be
responsible, with the District Secretariat con-
ducting the daily work. To create district and
section campaign committees means to divorce
the campaign from the other activities of the
Party, to make it subordinate and not lead
ing campaign, linking up all other campaigns.
A Task for Every Member.
Therefore organizing our Districts and Sec
tions properly, we must detail particular ac-
tivities to the nuclei and the nuclei assign
definite day by day tasks for each and every
member, for which he must be held responsible.
The District, Section and Nucleus must check
up on all activities at regular periods-prefer-
ably every week.
Draw Non-Communists Into Work.
To get on the ballot conventions are required
in some states. In all districts the Party is
holding conventions whether required by state
law or not. In both cases, the Party must
make the convention real mobilization-not
merely of delegates from Party units the revo-
lutionary unions and fraternal organizations,
but directly from groups of workers in the
shops, from A. F. of L. unions, etc. These
conventions Wust not merely talk, but create
real committees for carrying on the campaign.
One of the tests of our work will be our ability
to draw non-Party elements actively into cam
paign work.
Build Party and T. U. U. L.
In states where signatures must be collected,
this work must be done in Communist man
ner, linking it up with propaganda, with eff