The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
c. |. Halls U.S,A.
Member. DRIVE
Points Out Need For
Shop Nuclei

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Party membership:
l. The Recruiting Drive in the re-
naming weeks must be intensified
and linked up more closely with all
the Party campaigns, particularly
the unemployment campaign and the
campaign for the repeal of the crimi-
nal syndicalist laws. Any tendency
to let up or diminish the Recruiting
Drive activity must be sharply COM
batted. In the remaining two weeks,
the Party Committee must conscious
ly direct the recruiting efforts of
the Party to the large shops and
basic industries. The success of the
drive will not be evaluated alone
on the basis of new members, but
on the basis of the completion of
the quotas in all spheres of the
drlve-new shop nuclei, new factory
papers, new members and Daily
Worker subscriptions. The Party
must be modified to full capacity
from now to February %, when the
drive will be officially closed.
2. The tendency prevailing in
some districts to substitute the re-
porting of application cards instead
of accepted and assigned members
must be eliminated. Every worker
signing an application card must be
accepted through the Party nucleus
and passed upon finally by the Mem
bership Committee of the Section.
3. While still considering the
foremost task the recruiting of new
members, we must already now
bring to the forefront the equally
important task of absorbing these
new members and actually involving
them into Party activity. This will
be the real test for every district,
and failure in this task would mean
that our recruiting drive would
thus not only prove valueless but
would also compromise the Party in
the eyes of the working masses"
(Comintern cable.)
The mere checking up on this
problem-through a comparison of
reported members with dues and
initiation stamps bought, and thru
activity-is easy, and already there
exists a discrepancy in nearly every
district. The Central Committee
will check up closely on the capacity
of every district to keep the new
membeps, and evaluate the work of
each district at the coming Plenum
of the Central Committee.
Our two tasks in keeping the new
members are:
(a) The establishment immediate
ly Of discussion meetings or classes
at which all new members must par
ticipate, in every city. The reports
of the already established classes
for the new members show that only
Ia percentage of the new members
are attending. This must be rem
edied immediately.
(b) The sharp changing and i'm
provement of the organizational
and political life of our shop and
street nuclei. This means that every
unit must discuss in full the polit-
zeal campaigns and issues before
the Party, and how to carry these
through in the everyday activity of
the nucleus. Every nucleus must
outline for itself, under the leader
ship of the District and Section Com
mittees, concrete activity to carry
through in the factories the political
and organizational tasks of the
Party. Linked up with this is the
improvement of the functioning of
the nucleus, which must meet regu-
larly, on time, and with the nucleus
executive giving leadership at all
times. In activizing the nucleus,
every member and particularly the
new recruits must be involved in
activity. The districts and Section