The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15

as the Unemployed Council City Executive Com
mittee, should be made to feel real respon-
Sibility to the membership. Workers who are
unreliable and do not attend meetings should
be removed from the committees Members of
the organization and members of the commit
tees should feel that the most capable and adj
vanced workers should be on the leading COM
mittees-that they have a great responsibility
in that they plan and coordinate the work be-
tween general meetings. 1t should be a special
honor and privilege to be on the leading COM
mitteeS. However, they must never become is
olated from the general membership-their de-
ciSionS and actions must always be submitted to
and endorsed by the members. They must real-
ize that the strength of the organization de-
ponds not on them, but on the masses who
elected them, and in whose name they function.
1t is very important at meetings, to draw as
many workers as possible into discussions on
the problems taken up; ask them for suggestions,
criticisms, etc. In Greenville, at least 20 work
ers, white and Negro, take an active part in
the discussions at all our meetings among them
always being several women.
Women are particularly interested in problems
of the home-food, clothing, fuel and rent es-
pecially when children are involved Women can
easily be activized and driven into leadership in
the Unemployed Councils, where they can see
something concrete in the demands for relief
against eviction, etc. In Greenville we have 70
women on the City Executive Committee of a.
several of whom are more active and militant
than the men. There are many more women
than men on our Branch Executive Committees
From the very beginning, the workers should
be made to feel that the organization is their
Organization-that il is up to them to build it,
In Greenville, probably 60 or rs members of the
Unemployed Council have taken pads of paper
and signed up new members. The workers here
also realize that it is up to them to help or
ganize the new neighborhood branches of the
Unemployed Council in the different parts of
the city. 1t is obvious to them that one full
time organizer can't do all the necessary work
AT the last branch we organized which was in
Negro section, 6 white and l Negro Unem-
poyed Council member from two other branch
eS. came to the meeting, spoke and helped es-
tablish the branch; four of them were put on
the Branch Executive Committee of H. 1t is
especially important in the South, when white
workers go to Negro neighborhood, and help
organize the Negro workers.
In Greenville we have just started. Our first
outdoor meeting Of the Unemployed Council was
held March 2; our first indoor melting win our
new headquarters on March 10. On March 3d.
when I left the city our secretary and several of
the members (and by the way none of them
Party members) said: Even if no one comes in
to take your place while you are gone, we will
hold our regular mass meetings and Executive
Committee meetings. When you get back, we
expect to be able to report lot of new men,
beers and the establishment Of some new
branches
Workers realize that because of the unbear-
able conditions, bitter strikes and struggles are
bound to develop. They realize it is up TO them
to prepare themselves for leadership of these
struggles. They are ready to build up and as
sumo leadership in the day TO day jobs Of our
organizations. If we are to have mass organiza-
TONS we cannot depend on handful of hand
picked outside organizers To organize and sue
cessfully lead mass struggles we must depend
on the workers. They are ready and able TO
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