The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04
DEVELOP NEW METHODS OF WORK
IN THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN !!

Statement of the Central Committee, Communist
Party, U. S. A.
Our Seventh Convention reviewed the past
work of the party and came to the conclusion
that "our party is suffering from decided
disproportion between it's organized strength
and the mass activities which it initiates and
leads. The readiness of great masses of workers
to follow our party has led to most serious
underestimation of the value of organization.
The reliance on spontaneous response in many
instances replaces systematic organizatona1
preparations. AS result, the party fails in
large measure to crystalline into permanent
ganized strength the broad mass movements led
by it,
AS against this shortcoming the convention
urged the party to organize systematic work
among the workers in the shops and factories
to build and organize mass movement and out
of this mass movement build mass party. The
The convention declared 1.-THE systematic mobili-
cation of the workers for mass movements must
permit the greatest initiative and broadcast
participation in leadership of the best non party
elements among the masses, thereby bringing
to the forefront the most energetic the ablest,
and the most militant elements among the non
party workers, who must be won for member
ship in the party"
These decisions of the Seventh Convention
have not yet been carried out The turn has
not yet been effected This is especially evident
in the election campaign. The campaign work is
unsystematic, sporadic and follows time-worn
methods which completely out of harmony
with bolshevism.
To remedy this and to concretize for the party
the turn decided upon by the Seventh Convention
the Central Committee requests the immediate
holding of election campaign mobilization meet
ings These meetings must be organized by all
leading committees in the districts and sections
and also by all units. In these meetings concrete
plans of work must be worked out and discussed
on the basis of the lead given in this resolution.
At the same time the tasks growing out the plans
must be definitely assigned to committees and
to individual party members. All committees
and party members must be held responsible Tor
the work thus assigned to them. The leading
committees not only responsible for plans
and for guidance but also for the supervision
of the execution of these plans.
In taking up this present resolution of the
Central Committee and in preparing its discus
sion in the party committees and party units
the work proposed must be further concretized.
This concentration must, for example, replace
factory" in the resolution by specifically
named and assigned industrial establishment.
1t must also take into consideration all the known
facts of the industrial plant establishment
selected. Especially important in connection
with the further concentration of the proposals
Of the Central Committee is the distribution OF
the work among all party members. Every
member must be given specific function,
whether it be leaflet distribution visiting work
ers in their homes, work among unemployed be-
fore factory gates employment offices, house
to house solicitation, visiting of those voters who
signed our petitions, speaking, writing, etc. The
unit executive assigns to each member one tunc-
ton in accordance with the plan of work Of the
he fulfs the function thus assigned.
At the present moment we consider election
day. November 4th, the concentration point OF
all the present activities Of the party. Election
day, so to speak, is to be trial mobilization OF
of all theCommunist forces and the Communist
influence. The election campaign is also most
effective weapon of struggle against the most
dangerous social reforn1ist and social 1asclst
enemies of the working class.
The mobilization of these forces takes place
through number of very important campaigns
The most outstanding of these campaigns are
the Campaign of Unemployed insurance, the
Campaign Against Lynching, and the Campaign
to build the T. U. U. L. All of these campaigns
have an independent existence and independent
elimination points. The anti-lynching cam
paign endeavors to build the A. N L. G. and
to make it's st. Louis convention on November Is
an organizatonal and political success. The
T. U. U. L. campaign is to build the revolution
arr unions and to lead the workers ito strikes
against wage cuts, speed-up and to strengthen
the T. u U. L. financially and organizationaly.
The unemployed campaign is to establish Party
leadership the masses of unemployed, which
will be the greatest political factor in the class
struggles of next winter and to organize a ire
mendous mass campaign for our unemployment
insurance bill
Yet, while all of these campaigns have an in
dependent existence and aims differing from each
other, they the main feeders for the election
campaign of the Party. The diversity of cam
paigns is not hindrance in the Election Cam
paign, often adjudged by the Party. On the
contrary If properly carried through, it is a
help. Through systematic work in each cam
paign it is possible to mobilize nom Party forces
that could otherwise not be modified to help
the Party in the election campaign. For in
stance, the struggle for unemployed insurance
enables the Party to make its appeal to the I'M
employed masses, who otherwise could not be
drawn in to help Communist election campaign
for support of the campaign for Unemployed In
surance. And that is help to our election cam
paign.
The same holds true with the Ant-Lynchng
Campaign. The Anti-Lynching Campaign is
feeder for the Election Campaign 1t enables the
Party to win Negro and white masses for active
support Of the Anti-Lynching Campaign And
that Is support of election campaign. Not
less is this true of the Build the T. u. u l.. Cam
paign. The organizational and agitational efforts
of this campaign against wage cuts, speed-up,
ETC., are addition to the forces of the Election
Campaign of the Party.
The most important point in the turn Of the
Party is the approach of the of workers
in the shops, mills, mines and factories. To
direct the Party to efforts in the shops mines
and factories, it Is necessary to discard the gen
eral phrases about concentration and detail work
of the Party Preaching of concentration must
be replaced by concentration.
We still find in party too much of desire