The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04

to concentrate on spectacular record action. This
is based the erroneous theory that it is not
the detailed organizational and agitational work
that produces action, but that it is the noise and
spectacle of action based on spontaneous mass
response that produces organizational results.
The consequences of this erroneous apprOch are
evident throughout the Party. Party organiza-
tons discuss and speak in the most convincing
terms about the concrete talks of organizing shop
nuclei. But they do not organize then Our
revolutionary unions proclaim in glowing terms
the necessity of organizing masses of the unor-
ganized But they do not organize them. Neither
the Party nor the revolutionary unions have yet
learned that the intention of cutting down
forest can be executed only by laying the axe to
selected single trees A forest can be cut down
only tree by tree. We can conquer the shops
only shop by shop. We can organize the work
only by organizing worker after worker
In approaching election campaign through
the above mentioned important campaigns of the
Party for unemployment insurance, against
lynching and for the building of the 7. U. U. L.,
we must keep in mind the necessity of a full
mobilization of the Party forces In organi
cation work cannot approach the working
class as whole, but its individual members.
Neither can the Party as a whole approach the
workers for organization work. The party must
approach the individual members of the working
class through the individual members of the
Party The Party a whole is represented in
its program and manifestos, its literature and its
press, but in its organization work among the
masses of workers it is represented by every in
divdual Party member. If we consider our tasks
from this point of view we Will readily see that
the gaining of members, the activizaton
of the Party, the polticalization of the work of
the Party units must and will be the natural
by-product of the turn decided upon at the
Seventh Convention of our Party
Our Party members must stop embracing the
whole working class and instead select an in
dividual member of the working class for this
embrace. Only thus can we help to achieve the
activization of the Party members and at the
iTOa recruiting
paign among the working masses. Only thus can
build the T. U. U. L. and the A. N. L. c.
This individual approach must also be estab-
lished between the Party leadership and the
members. Instead of only talking to, propagan-
dizing and directing the membership collectively,
the leadership of the units, the section and the
district must approach the individual rank and
file members and the leaders in the lower COM
mittees, to assign work to Them to advise, to
hear reports to convey experiences, to teach, to
Inspire and to lead them.
This approach of individual Party members
by the leadership, and of the individual workers
In the shops and factories by the Communist also
solves the difficulty of many campaigns of the
Party.
In the course of the individual agitation carried
on by the Party member he uses the material of
all our campaigns successfully to convince his
fellow worker After finding the special interest
of the fellow worker the Party member concen-
trates the campaign covering this interest
If he works among Negro workers he will con-
forgetting however, the necessity of propagan-
dizing the economic organization and the struggle
against wage cuts, etc. But to the one cam
paign in which he finds the interest of the
worker most keenly reflected he devotes his major
attention.
In order to arm Party members with all
possible arguments and material, and in order to
enable them to benefit by the mutual experiences
of the Party members, the unit meetings must
become the place of discussion of these cam
paigns. The local issues connected with them
must be analysed in the unit meetings. And the
experiences of the individual Party members
gained in the campaign must be exchanged.
By turning the unit meetings from their past
dull routine to such function, the unit meetings
will turn into sources of inspiration and guidance
to the Party members in their work.
Every Party unit must Immediately select
shop or factory within its territory for social
work. Where large industrial establishments
employing thousands and tens of thousands of
workers exist, the nuclei of a whole section must
be concentrated for work in such shop. But
the section district must select on shop ana
work out a plan of campaign in that shop, as
signing to every available Party member a
specific task in this campaign.
After the factory establishment is selected
the campaign plan must be worked out consid-
erng the following needs: First, getting inside
contacts. These contacts must be utilized for
inside distribution of leaflets and factory papers
All factory papers must be especially prepared
on issues growing out of the conditions of the
phrases about the third period, shop papers and
shop leaflets must deal with actual manifesto
lions of the third period, wage cuts, speed
etc, as they take place in the shop or industrial
establishment Inside connections must also be
modified to get names and addresses of other
workers working in the shop. Unemployed mem
bers or housewives and such Party members that
can be modified during the daytime, must be
modified for lea1et distribution at noon hour
and closing time Wherever mass mobilization
is possible or where leafet distribution is inter-
fered with by police or factory guards it is nee
essary that larger groups of Party members be
modified to mix with the workers when they
leave the factory, to start conversations with
them, to walk home with them, to find out their
reactions and secure their names and addresses.
All names and addresses secured through inside
connections, by any other method, must be
and organized visits. All personal connections
thus secured, all addresses, ETC., must be utilized
for generally agitating these workers, for win
ming these workers for the support of one or the
other of specific campaigns for gaining sub
scribers to our press, for winning worker CORE
spondents, for circulating the Liberator, the
Labor Unity, ETC., for the efforts to establish
shop committees, and primarily for winning
cruts to carry the Party and the r. u. U. l..
work within the factory industrial establish
ment.
The chief aim in this work at the present mo-