The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-29

Resolution of Central Committee, Communist
Party.
I. The Party, in its program of action,
adopted at the October, 1929 Plenum, de-
cided upon a Party Building Drive as one of
its major tasks This was the carrying thru
of the line and directives of the Open Letter
of the Communist International which pointed
out that:
THE Party become mass prOletar-
ian Party only condition that 1t widens
its base by creating its main strongholds in
the ranks of the American workers, espe-
cally in the most important branches of
industry. and also among the Negro work
ers while at the same time retaining its
positions among the revolutionary immi-
grant workers"
The Party recruiting drive was conducted in
the opening months of the economic crisis in
the United States and had the opportunity of
developing in these accentuated favorable OBJ
iective conditions. The conditions arising from
the crisis, both at home and abroad: intens-
fled decentralization speed-up and wage cuts;
mass unemployment; deepening of the radical
ization of the masses-plus the carrying thru
of the C. I. Line in mass political activities
and the liquidation Of factionalism and the
cleansing of the ranks of right wing elements
all these created the political prerequisites
for the successful growth of the political in
fluence and organizational Strengthening of
the Party.
II. In this favorable situation the Drive
was carried through successfully in central
lied, nationwide, organized and well dis
cussed manner, under the leadership of the
Organization Department of the Central Com
mittee. The Party C. C. gave constant direc-
tives and concentrated all the forces of the
Party on this task. The recruiting of 6,167
new members during the time of the Drive,
of whom IS per cent are from industry "a
partial registration of 3,846 new members
shows 81 per cent from such industries as auto
steel, marine, shoe, textile, railroad and build
ing, while taking industries individually, we
see auto 10 per cent, miners per cent, Guild
ing 8 per cent steel and metal per cel.t, food
per cent, needle 6 per cent, etc., and of
which 934 are Negro workers, almost exclu-
sively from industry, plus the organizing of
76 new shop nuclei "a partial analysis of A
of the rs new shop nuclei show the follow
ing distribution: Auto 10, Steel g. Textile 5,
Mining 4, Metal 8, Leather 8, Shipyard 8, etc.,
speaks for the vitality of the Party in this
period of economic crisis.
Politically, the results of the Drive are a
reflection of the rehabilitation of the masses
and shows the growing influence of the Party
over the masses and the organization capa-
city of the Party, more than ever before
Evaluating the organization results of the
Drive for the Party as a whole, we see that
based on the original quotas set by the Or
ganization Department, Central Committee
that 10 out of Is districts have gone over
their quotas of new members. The drive was
a test of Party leadership in every district
In this connection must be pointed out the or
ganizational successes in the Detroit Cleve-
land, Philadelphia, and Southern districts and
the organizational failures and incapacity in
the Kansas City, Dakota, and particularly the
industrial districts, Pittsburgh and Connecti-
cut. In those districts, the G. c. will have to
take steps to strengthen them organizationally
In organizing new shop nuclei basic weak
ness of the Drive is reflected since only rs
new shop nuclei of the original quota of 100
were organized. Two of the largest districts,
New York and Chicago, have manifested basic
weaknesses politically and organizationally in
this respect. The complete neglect of shop
nuclei in the Kansas City and Seattle districts
well as the poor results in California. Con-
necticut and Buffalo, necessitates that these
districts examine their work in very self
critical manner and take the necessary steps
to sharply correct same.
An outstanding achievement of the Drive is
the recruiting of 934 Negro workers to our
idilhS-1OT tHS IISI llfne carrying 1nJO organ
national life our programmatical declaration
that the Communist Party is the revolutionary
class Party of the entire working cass-both
white and Negro.
III. Despite 1.-THE positive achievements,
there are many outstanding shortcomings,
which must be pointed out and corrected:
l. Attic the Drive showed developing or
ganzational capacities of the Party, there is
still evident tremendous dsproportion be-
tween the political influence and organzational
strength of the Party. The fact that on March
= 9Th we were able to influence one and quar-
.er million workers to respond to the call of
he Party while we have only recruited 6167
new members shows clearly the enormous re-
serves-already with some political conscious
ness-which the Party has, but has not yet
reached organizationay
2. Tendencies were expressed thruout the
entire Party to carry the Drive separate
and apart from the general political activi-
Mes and campaigns of the Party. Many times
he Recruiting Drive was approached merely
IN the basis of figures and not on the basis
If political activity connected with the meth
IDS of recruiting the political significance
If the Recruiting Drive itself.
3. The basic organizatonal weakness was
he fact that recruiting was not based primar-