The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-30
8. IMPROVEMENT OF OUR Or
GANIZATION IN THE COURSE OF
THE CAMPAIGN IN ORDER TO
KEEP THE NEW MEMBERS.

In order to carry through the recruiting drive
and to keep the new members, we must take
steps to improve our inner Party organization
The improvement consists Of taking the follow
ing political and organizational measures:
ID We must carry on systematic struggle
through political Qualification against the exist
ing tendencies that trade union work and the
work in other mass organizations is not Party
work More comrades shall be assigned for &C.
tive work in the trade unions and other mass
organizations All these comrades assigned
shall be released from daily inner Party work,
but these comrades engaged In mass organiza-
tons must participate in the life Of the unit.
% Without the most stubborn struggle TO
root out every trace Of white chauvinism in the
Party and mass organizations, we cannot ex-
pect to keep the Negro workers in our Party.
Every Party member must be taught to under
stand the deep and justified suspicion and doubt
that Negro workers have gained from bitter op-
PRESTON Jim Crowism and discrimination suf-
Tered at the hands OF white workers also Party
units must learn to pay special attention to the
drawing in Of Negro comrades into the leader
ship Of the units and leading committees,
80 We shall establish in all Districts pos
sbIe the holding Of senii-monthly unit organ
izers' conferences in the Sections With the Sec
ton Buro for the purpose OF control Of the work
and to give direct leadership and guidance as
well as outline the tasks for the following two
weeks. In large cities we shall establish sim
liar conferences between the Section Organ
izers and the District Org Department. To
these meetings leading functionaries Of the
unions and the unemployed shall be drawn in.
"a We shall aim to abolish by January 9th
the detailed weekly org letters from the Dis
trict and Section to the units and In place OF
these TO issue brief seni-monthly summaries of
the directions given at the conferences OF the
unit and section organizers, paying special at
tention to the politicalization of our directves,
oral and written
90 We shall regulate the concentration Of
the Party and Young Communist League wher-
ever possible on the same shop or neighborhood
50 as TO increase our forces OF concentration.
80 We shall institute in the principal dis
tricts the issuance Of membership books by the
Section Committees In those sections which IN
the opinion OF the Districts are strong enough
TO carry this through milwaukee Los An
geles Anthracite. Eastern Ohio, etc).
(D The cutting down OF the present number
Of inner meetings in all Districts, the assignment
Of more mass activities TO every Party member.
The following steps shall be taken;
(a) The cutting down OF the number OF gync-
tionaries in the unit. Special directives will be
supplied.
Cb) In Detroit the units shall meet twice
month. 3
(c) In Chicago the Unit Buros shall meet
the same night as the unit meeting, and once
month on separate night, to review more elab-
orately the work OF the unit
The results Of these changes viii be studied
by the Central Org, Department and on the.
basis OF the experiences, final plan be adopted.
go We shall institute a plan OF handling
applications 10 insure minimum OF lapsed
time between the filling In OF the application
and the actual attendance at unit meetings Of
the new members. The plans will be supplied.
70 We shall hold the Unit Buros responsible
for the careful investigation Of the work the
new members are best fitted for and for draw
ing them into different phases Of activity
do) Regular reports at the unit OF the mass
..yi5ies Of the Individual members fractions,