The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-28
PARTY LIFE
Conducted by the Organization Department of
the Central Committee Communist Party, U.S.A.
Concrete Planning of a
Campaign

WHEN the &C or DC issues an instruction or
W a resolution for the attainment of some OBJ
iective it should consider this but half of the
job. The other half of the job should be a
detailed analysis of how to go to work, with in
structions for the District and Section Com
mittees, and for the Unit Buro-way down to the
individual in the unit. Of course, the leading
body must 1be realistic and keep in mind the
actual working forces at the Party disposal. Also
it must find way of checking up, all along the
line, by personally inspecting the way the work
is being delegated and carried out.
To be specific: The &C decides that the next
step is hunger marches-in every town. no mat
ter how small the group. The DC decides on
one in the Bronx, one in Brooklyn, etc. How
are the jobless organized for these marches?
Through the unemployed councils (presupposing
their having previously been organized through
similar detailed analysis and planning) and by
the units concentrating on the breadlines, flop
houses employment agencies, cheap lodging
houses ETC. In this matter the Party and the
Unemployed Councils must, of course, coordinate
their work. The DC decides for, say, Section
800 members-20 breadlines in Section l. Keep
half the membership continuing the usual FAC
tory concentration work-the other $50 lett Tor
preparing the hunger march. Perhaps 90 COM
rades are incapable of participating in work on
breadlines The DC decides that 200 members
can work effectively on only 10 breadlnes I
repeat-effectively. The District Committee
picks the 10 largest and most promising lines
The Section Committee decides, on the basis OF
the actual composition of actual units, how
many comrades each unit must contribute to-
wards this work The District Committee ac-
tually describes, and in detail how comrade
as an individual, must act and conduct himself
ON the bread line. Shall he be on the front OF
the line or the rear? Shall the women COM
rades stand on the lines or not (men's lnes)?
After few days small but specific leaflet call
ing the unemployed workers to a meeting place
should be handed out in not too conspicuous
fashion-perhaps with the help OF other COM
rades not on the line.
The Unit Buro shall designate the ones to do
this work, keeping in mind that an office worker
or counterman in a restaurant cannot very
well go to work with weeks stubble on his
face, whereas a ditch-digger can. Also that this
and this comrade shall sleep in this and this
flop house for several nights, etc.
1t is only by this general method of analysing
and planning and distributing our forces where
they will do the most good at any particular
time, that we will realistically do Communist
work and only through this means will the i'm
portant resolutions and documents cease to be
just phrase mongering." And who should be
more capable of giving these detailed instruc-
lions than the leading bodies?
And don't forget--let's not bite off more than
we can chew and digest! Our forces spread over
small area, but intensively applied will yield
greater organizational results, by far, than our
forces spread over a great area, but loosely and
thinly applied.
j. BAXTER.