The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-03
REVOLT TION A RY
COMPETITION
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best speakers, performances of agitprop troop4
in the factories, recruiting pauses in the meet
ings and demonstrations for the winning OF
new members, whereby, for instance, in one
meeting attended by 1000 workers 157 work
ers were won as Party members. This work
strongly supported by the "Rote Fahne,"
by factory and tenement papers, by establish-
ment of recruiting offices in the workers dis
tricts, etc. In December of last year the Party
organized introduction meetings in various
parts of the town. On December S, there took
place big central meeting for the 5000 new
Party members At these meetings new mem.
bers and subscribers for the "Rote Fahne'
again won. The initiative, the enthusiasm
of the new members for the Party is further
expressed by the fact that many of them have
in turn recruited two, three and even more
new members for the Party.
There is now beginning the training Of the
members, their drawing into Party work.
The following shortcomings and weaknesses
have been revealed in this campaign: The,
majority Of the new Party members have not
been won by an intensive daily work but chiefly
by factory and public meetings, demonstra-
tons. The daily work in the factories and
workers quarters has been very inadequate,
although few nuclei have doubled and even
trebled their membership during this time. The
new members are mainly unemployed, only
third of them are workers in the factories,
among them being very few working women.
These shortcomings must now be removed by
an intensive daily work in the factories and in
the labor organizations.
Another shortcoming of the competition is
that it bore only an inner-party character and
has not become means and method Of mobiliz-
ing the working masses in the factories and
workers organizations. Here change must
be made. In the plans of revolutionary COM
petition of the factories and workers organiza-
tions tasks must be set up in the solution OF
which the whole working class is interested.
For instance, in the preparation Of the factory
council elections, in the struggle against high
prices and custom duties, in the fight for the
seven-hour day, in the mobilization Of the
masses for the political mass strike against
the transference of burdens onto the working
class as envsaged by the Young Plan and the
program of the bourgeoisie. The question OF
the leadership of the competition must also be
solved. 1t will be necessary to select commit
tees in the factories and workers. organiza-
tions, on which the most active and revolution
airy working men and women are to sit.
The factories, and not only the nuclei, should
enter into competition agreements among them
selves not only in Berlin but with similar
factories and workers organizations in Paris,
Hamburg, Moscow, etc. The mutual reporting
on the results, the exchange Of experiences -
a means to popularize the idea Of the revolu-
tionary competition are also important.
1t would be advisable to get also other Party
organizations, factories, workers organizations
in Paris, Hamburg, Moscow, ETC., to report on
the results and experiences of their revolution
airy competition campaigns. a. s