The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
Substituting Personal Guidance
for Circular Leadership
(ro be concluded

Ject to terror, the way the combat this lay not
through advice by mail but through conferences
with the comrades, the sending of district repre-
SentatlveS to section committee meetings and
functlonar1eS' gatherings, where the role of the
Party and the revolutionary unions in the strug-
gle against wage-cuts and unemployment could
be clarified through concrete discussion.
The whole problem of the relationship of the
Party and the revolutionary unions in this dis
trlct, the question of the decisive role of the
Party in building the National Miners Union
and the Metal Workers Industrial League, must
be dealt with persistent theological and organ
national campaign in the sections While it is
necessary to have a written plan Of campaign cir
culated among the functionaries in the district
this alone, however, as experience has shown
cannot suffice but must be accomplished by the
personal guidance and patient explanation of
Leading representatives from the district bureau
The section functionaries' conferences lust held
following the National Hunger March to Wash
ngton have been utilized to draw the political
lessons from the Hunger March and prepare the
Party membership for the next steps in the fight
for unemployment relief and insurance con-
tinuation of these conferences so that they may
be held regularly once month, will undoubtedly
prove one of the most effective methods of con-
solidating the Party, raising the political level
of the membership and involving them actively
in all mass campaigns.
Personal guidance is given not only the section
and unit functionaries, but directly to the units
themselves. The Pittsburgh district is bascally
district of mine and steel units. These must re-
ce1ve individual personal attention, so that they
may be taught how to conduct the day to day
work in the factory, how to raise economic de-
mands and initiate struggles for them how to
get out factory papers and win the confidence
OF the workers. For this reason, the district
bureau is insisting that mebers of the section
committees shall be responsible for the func-
tioning OF the units in the section attending unit
meetings to bring in person the directiveS Of the
section committee
Furthermore, leading comrades of the district
are sent to cover meetings of the basic mine and
steel units. In the present drive to build new
nuclei, experienced district comrades have been
assigned for special concentration on selected
units. Already results are being definitely OBJ
talned, with the prospect of setting up several
new steel and mine nuclei within the next few
weeks, thus demonstrating the necessity and
value of such action. Wherever this personal
guidance is given the response of the members
is enthusiastic Clearly, this is what they seek,
what they need. This our district must give
them.
1t is not only the membership that benefits
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aries themselves. To go into the field to mingle
with the Party members among the masses in
the mines and mills, is vitality necessary for all
leading Party members. This prevents their iso-
lation from the masses. 1t enables them to grasp
at first hand the situation in the mines and the
mills, and to react more quickly to the needs
OF the miners and steel workers 1t helps them
to prepare programs Of activity based on the con-
crete requirements Of the different sections OF
the district II is of the best means OF over
coming bureaucratic tendencies. mechanical and