The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-11
We Must Build Collective Leadership.


One of the major tasks of each comrade IN
charge of any field of work, DO, unit organ
zer, agitprop director etc. is to develop more
comrades in his line of work. Even if work
will get along slower at first it must be the
duty of the leading comrade in the committee
to patiently work with the other comrades, ex-
plain the work, show them how to work. Inc
committee as whole must work out the plans.
Certainly the chance for errors is least where
a discussion has taken place and decisions made
by whole body If we carry this out we will
have real collective leadership, we will be able
to develop self-criticism and we will create
situation where many comrades understand the
work and work hard to carry it out District
after district, most of the units, committees,
etc., show this bad situation. Comrades work
alone and do not develop collective activity. In
New York due to the failure to develop col
lective leadership in spite of all subjective bar
riers difficulties developed in the leading cadre
that had it's reaction on all of the work. This
must be remedied everywhere.
Closely connected with individual" leadership
we had the tendency to push" comrades. This
has cost us many, many good proletarian COM
rades 1t showed itself in the pushing" of new
comrades into leading bodies because we knew
we had to have proletarians there and once we
had them there leaving them stranded without
of cases to help these comrades work Naturally
these comrades without the help of the more
experienced comrades dropped not only out of
the leading committees but also out of the
League AS matter of fact the rise of new forces
into leadership has been more or less of an acct
dent in most cases and not the result of a clear
consciously followed policy. With rapid develop
ment of collective leadership such things will
disappear and comrades will go step by step into
the highest bodies of the YCL and then into the
Party The responsibility for the development of
this process lies on us, the older comrades in the
League.
Collective Leadership Will Help Build Prole-
tartan Leadership
Particularly must we draw into the COLLEC-
TIVE leadership of our League, rapidly and
boldly new comrades from the large shops and
mines. These must be taken care of particularly.
The older comrades must work all the time with
some less experienced one and develop him for
! more responsible work. We must develop ALL
comrades, particularly those in the shops, as
quickly as possible so that they may lead the
| struggles of the young workers better.
We had some good experience in development
of new comrades. In New York comrade joined
the League. He was helped out became mem
Der of the executive and later was sent out as
coloniser. Today his work, only four months
/ after he joined the League is among the best of
any. But how many were not taken care of and
dropped out? Certainly well up to few hun
dred In Pittsburgh new comrade who Joined
I the YCL just four weeks ago. is among the most
active and with the help of all the comrades is
taking his place in positions of responsibility in
the district. These examples of what can be
done when leading comrades pay attention to
developing new forces Such comrades must be
helped along and advised rapidly