The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-04
OUR PROPAGANDA IN THE
ELECTION CAMPAIGN

The present practice of having a comrade
in the district office write up the paper must
cease. First of all, it deprives the nuclei of
initiative and respons.-.-.y and secondly, the
papers have one charactcr-devoid of the Ian
guage of the shop, etc
Now comes the question of speakers. There
is --~5istent practice in uiring the dis
trict office to supply all speakers. the COM
rades of the district are not always available,
thus limiting the number of meetings possible.
Above all, the nuclei and sections must develop
their own speakers. These latter speakers
familiarizng themselves with conditions in the
shops of the section will become leaders among
the workers of the section. There is a terrible
scarcity of Party speakers las of all function
aries) and new ones must be developed Young,
live comrades, men, and especially women,
must be trained generally as speakers and
especially for the election campaign. This
must be done without delay. Only for special
meetings should the district be asked for speak
erS.
The speakers must learn how to American
ize their speeches. using simple language.
They must understand that the workers vocab-
ulary is very limited and does not include
Party Technology. Lenin laid stress on simpli-
city of language, and our Party has yet to
learn the method
At and in the shops first and above ALL Then
in unions "a. F. of L. too); fraternal organ
izations, etc. Street corner rallies and hall
meetings must be subordinate consideration
Committees in charge of the work-chair-
men, sellers of the Daily Worker, Labor Unity
and Party literature, ETC., must be on hand in
time. Unemployed comrades can serve in this
capacity. Altho Communists working in shops
know what punctualty is, in our Party we are
slovenly about starting meetings. This prac-
tice must stop if we wish to attract and hold
the masses.
Special Propaganda for Negroes
Special propaganda must be issued for Ne
gro, women and young workers. The Negroes
are coming close to the Party. Women and
young workers occupy a leading position in
industry and must be drawn into the move
ment This propaganda must not consist of
a simple leaflet during the campaign, but
planned series of leaflets To neglect these
three categores of workers would be serious
shortcomng in our work.
What has been said of the Party applies
equally, and in some respects more SO, to the
Young Communist League, which must play
a prominent part in the campaign. Young
comrades can more easily collect, write up,
prepare and issue shop papers, They can more
readily be trained as speakers-they are less
likely to have a foreign accent Therefore the
district of the League must not only cooperate
but play leading role in the campaign.
The character of our propaganda should be
so different from what it hitherto has been that
the district bureaus must see to it that the
District Agitprops Immediately get on the job
and organize it.
This election campaign must be real Com
munist campaign-Communst in organization
and propaganda. We must organize ourselves
for the work-in well-planned manner; we
must carry on our agitation and propaganda,
delegating the respective duties and response
bilities to the sections, nuclei and members,
urging every member to be active in the every
day tasks. We must organize the masses for
the sharp struggles coming. We must get
vote according to the influence our Party has
attained, influence that will grow if we reach
the workers, explaining the situation and dis
secting the system of exploitation that means
only misery to them, explaining the situation
and leading them in the struggle. Plan and
organize your work! Then-forward!