The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-27
by NJ. SILVER District 81.

WHILE there is an improvement in the func-
" toning of the Section Committees in Dis
trict 8, to the extent that they meet regularly
and take up problems confronting them, the
units still do not recognize the authority of
the Section Committees, do not get individual
guidance and are too dependent on the district.
The Section Committee is more of an advisory
board to the Section Organizer than a leading
committee composed of comrades in charge of
different departments of the section, who par
tcipate in the everyday work of their partcu-
lar departments. We can find many unit
Daily Worker representative or a unit Negro
director who is better acquainted and actually
participates in the campaigns of that partcu-
lar department, than the section Daily Worker
representative or Negro director, unless, as is
often the case, the section functionary is also
a unit functionary of the same nature. In
that event the comrade is actually unit func-
tionary and only carries the title of section
functonary.
District 3 will have to develop the sections
to become real political leaders of their respec-
tive territories. The units will have to go to
their sections for instructions and guidance in
stead of to the district office. At present the
units are still being nursed too much by the
district office, with the result, therefore, that
the district office does not give sufficient at
tention to the out of town sections.
New Elements.
We are at present involved in a recruiting
drive which is to further strengthen our Party
and improve its social composition. The work
ers joining our Party today are not the type
that have been at the fringe of our Party for
a number of years, which elements will re-
main traditional sympathizers but will go no
further. The elements getting now are
new as far as our movement is concerned
Negroes, unsklled workers of basic industry
who have been attracted to our Party through
the Party's participation in the class struggle.
These workers, if retained, are the elements
who will radically change the composition of
the Party. The problem of keeping these new
members is of utmost Importance. The unit
meetings, however, are conducted in such
manner that unless improved Immediately we
shall not be able to keep great number of
new members. We don't have enough poll
teal life in the conduct of the meeting to ex-
plain to the new members what it is all about,
and the discussions are too political"
To illustrate At one of our unit meetings,
the organizer reporting for the Executive on
the Daily Worker Campaign, Call to the Ma
tiona Convention of the Party and the J. l..
D.. reported in the following manner: "The
Executive has decided that every comradc
must pay a dollar for a Convention Assess
ment Stamp, that every comrade must go out
to collect money for the Daily Worker and
that all members are instructed to participate
in the house to house collection this Sunday"
Using Il few words like "penum,"e "red Sun
day" at the meeting where or 10 workers
who Joined the Party came down for thc first
time to Party meeting were sitting and
waiting for an explanation Of what all This
money was needed for. Comrades claim that
report of this nature is necessary in order
to be through with the business side in time
for discussion, The discussion which is held