The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-23

of November to pass by without serious pre-
parations for the drive. In this question in
structions were given out by the Central Com
mittee but our District Committees did not
carry them out, which lead to serious weak
ening of the drive.
Z. The important feature of the drive,
building of shop nuclei and publishing of shop
papers, has so far been neglected by every
district, except Detroit, Philadelphia and Cleve-
land Here we see one of the most serious
shortcomings of our Party's organizational
activity; too much centered around halls and
neighborhood meetings, not in the factories.
And another feature is that when we organize
shop nuclei these generally are built up in
light industries, not in the important heavy
industries. Here the Central Committee of the
Party must take very energetic measures to
effect a decisive change, otherwise our Party
will remain in state of permanent reorgan-
ization"-a situation we have had in our Party
since 1925. Now we carry on only minimum
of work in the shops and every Party organ
ization complains about lack of connections in
the factories.
s. One feature of the drive is especially
weak the drive for new subscribers to the
Daily Worker. For the Daily Worker only
Detroit shows active results: 1000 Daily Work
ers distributed daily The reason for the fai-
lure to get subs is partly to be found in the
fact that the Party has not yet succeeded in
making the Daily Worker into a real Commu-
mist mass paper, but this is not the main rea-
son. The main reason is the disinterestedness
of our whole Party apparatus and of leading
comrades towards the Daily Worker. This at
titude has to be changed, and well organized
apparatus for distribution of the Daily Worker
must be built up by every Party organization.
8. Our. Party does not pay enough atten-
ton to literature distribution, and the drive
for distribution of the recruiting pamphlet
has proved how weak we are on this field. The
Party has only a beginning of an apparatus
for this activity, and gives almost no leader
ship.
TO- A very serious shortcoming is the in
activity of the fractions of the Party in the
drive. Our Party has very few functioning
fractions in non-Party mass organizations and
one of the aims of the drive was to establish
such fractions. The Party has failed to do
this. Recruiting of new members into the
Party is one of the means through which we
can build up fractions and make them function,
as we'll as in trade unions GA. F. of L. and
Trade Union Unity League, in Workers Inter-
national Relief, international Labor Defense
language organizations, etc.. The Hungarian
fractions are the only ones working systema-
tically, and they have so far brought more
than 100 new members into the Party for the
drive
The quotas for the recruiting drive have so
far been filled up to 1880 of the new members,
$3.50 of the new shop nuclei, 400 of the new
shop papers, and 4fo of the new subscribers
for the Daily Worker. More than half of the
time of the drive has expired. The Polburo
insists upon an energetic improvement of the
drive, every leading committee is responsible
for bringing in swift results and every Party
member is responsible to his unit for mani
fold strengthened activity during the remain
ing weeks of the drive. The activity of every
member should be checked up through demand
for reporting at unit meetings.
In some cases there have been reported to
the Central Committee new applicants for
membership in the Party, instead of accepted
new members. Such methods cannot be tole-
rated in Communist Party and the Central
Committee insructs every Party unit and every
Party committee to control the sending in of
information, so that only bona fide, accepted
members in the Party will be reported.
The new members should be accepted by the
nuclei and all bureaucratic red tape in bring
ing in members must be abolished.
Philadelphia and Detroit are at present the
leading districts in revolutionary competition,
but almost every district is tagging behind in
quota. District No. l shows itself weakest in
bringing in Negro members So far, the whole
district able to bring in only one Negro
comrade. Other districts that have recruited
an absolutely insufficient number of new Negro
members are Minnesota, Kansas City, Dakotas,
Seattle, California, Connecticut and the South.
New York and Chicago, our two largest dis
tricts, have up to January Is organized
new shop nucleus each-a too brilliant illustra-
ton of the weakness of our shop connections.
Pittsburgh-one of most industrial dis
tricts--has not been able, up to January Is,
to organize single shop nucleus, and the same
holds true about Minnesota, Kansas City, Da-
kotas, Seattle, California, Connecticut and the
South. That is out of our fifteen districts,
eight cannot show any results on this very
important issue of the drive. One of our dis
tricts has so far shown no results at all, the
former agrarian district The Pittsburgh dis
trict must be severely criticized because, To-
Gated in one of the most in ustrial parts of
the world, our district committee has not been
able to recruit more than four new members
during six weeks and failed to organize sim
gle shop nucleus. The Polburo demands that
the District Committee of the Pittsburgh dis
trict Immediately take Steps to intensity the
activity for the drive and insists upon the
district living up to its quota
The Political Bureau makes the following
recommendations:
AZ The recruiting of new members must be
more systematized, through mass work, and the
tempo of bringing in new members must be
accelerated through thorough mobilization
of the whole membership for the drive. Spe-
cial attention must be given to recruiting