The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-04

The Recruiting Drive has been extended 16
days thru Unemployment Day on Feb. 26th.
Every district will be judged primarily on the
results it achieves up till Feb 10th, the orig
inal date. The extension gives the Party units
the possibility of making Party recruiting
normal activity and at the same time to DEM
onstrate how actively each district is partici-
pating in Unemployment Day.
The total results to date show 3,71s, or "a
per osnt of the original quota of 5000 new
members. This means that "a per cent of the
original quota has been recruited in weeks
or 70 per cent of the time of the original per-
iod of weeks. While there is a small dis
crepancy, nevertheless the total results
satisfactory. The weakness lies in the fact
that some districts Detroit, New York and
Phila) have already passed their quotas, while
many others languish behind. While it was to
be expected that the recruitment this week
would be, smaller than last week, due to the
Lenin Memorial Meetings, nevertheless, the
total recruitment this week (637) is not suf-
ficient and some districts philadelphia, De-
troit, Chicago, Minnesota and California; show
a decided drop in the tempo of their recruit
ing. This tendency must be corrected, so that
in the remaining 26 days of the Drives, the
entire Party machinery will be working full
speed in the Recruiting Drive, linking it up
with all other activities, particularly the I'm
employment Day on Feb. 26th.
Negro Workers.
Up until last week the percentage of Negro
recruits has kept at an even proportion-20
per cent. Last week this dropped to IL per
cent and today it remains at this level. This
shows a definite weakness in the recruiting
which must be given serious attention by each
IL, has OH
the challenge of Detroit and is close second
to Detroit Detroit leads in recruiting Negro
workers with 159; New York second with 142;
Philadelphia is third with lis; Chicago fourth
with 81 and Cleveland fifth with 3d. Proper
eionately, Philadelphia district is even ahead
of Detroit.
Shop Nuclei Tagging.
In building shop nuclei, five districts con-
tributed this week. Boston 1, Phila 2, Cleve-
land /, California 1, and Connecticut 2, making
a total of z new shop nuclei this week. The
most basic shortening of the entire Drive, is
the invariable lack of attention to concentrat-
ing the Party Drive in the shops. Not single
district has reached its quota of shop nuclei
and some important districts like New York,
Pittsburgh, Chicago, Minnesota and Connecti-
cut-whch are highly industrialized, have so
far made a showing which must be severely
criticized.
The Party failed to understand that this
is not only a Party Building Drive but also
a Daily Worker Building Drive. The extern
ton of the Drive gives every district an OPP
portunity to correct this weakness. To date
only 428 subs have been solicited-75 of which
were gotten in this last week. Only two dis
tricts have made any showing in Daily Work
err Philadelphia and California. With
371S new members, there is the opportunity of
getting 3718 subs. No new member can be
without the central organ of the Party. The
Daily Worker must. be- one of the links which
bind the new member to the Party, otherwise
we will be confronted with crisis in keeping
the new members
Revolutionary Competition.
New York has had an easy victory over
Chicago in recruiting new members. This
should cause some concern in the Chicago dis
trct. which is the center of heavy industry
In Negro recruits. New York also beats Chi
cago 142 to 81. Similarly with the challenges
f. against Detroit. Both Philly and Cleveland
have fallen far behind the auto city, Detroit
In the smaller districts, competition is more
keen. Boston, which was so sure of victory
because it temporarily was defeating Califor.
nia then undertook to defeat Minnesota also
Today, Boston finds itself behind both Mime.
sofa and California in new recruits, altho II
has a good record in new shop nuclei. All
three of these districts are very poor In re-
cruiting Negro workers.