The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-24
PARTY LIFE
Conducted by the Organization Department of
the Central Committee Communist Party, U.S.A.
A Letter From a Worker
Dear Comrades:

AS non-member of the Party who agrees
with its aims, and realizes that only under the
militant leadership of the Communist Party will
the American proletariat be able to overthrow
the capitalist government and establish the Die
tatorship of the Proletariat ] wish to venture
some criticism. Knowing that I will be cor
rected and that l will receive an intelligent
reply to my opinions, will not hesitate to ex-
press myself about any matter I do not clearly
understand
There was a letter in the Daily from by a
Negro working woman. One has only to read the
Gazette to prove the fact that Negroes are
framed and sent to Jail. The records of the
police-coTt will Substantiate her statement that
Negro women are Disseminated against and
fined for offenses they did not commit. I be-
lieve the local of the Party in the nearby big
city should follow up such letters. Get sub
scriptions to the Daily Worker and establish
permanent contacts with the Negro and white
workers Of. A town that has an iron-foun-
dry, fertilizer plant, skmill satisfactory CITY,
laborers (under-paid), railway yards and various
trades that are unorganized, should be able to
support its own local of the Communist Party
brought the question up before some Party
members and they informed me that they did
not have any CONTACTS in Contacts in
business politics do not grow on trees they
have to be MADE Granted that city of ku
kluxers and fundamentalists is not fertile field
for Communist nucleus; that is no argument
against bringing into the Party such workers
as are fitted because of their ability and desire
to become Communists. is the GATEWAY
to the South, the beginning of intensified wage
slavery and white chauvinism. There are fac
tories, mills, truck farms unskilled workers and
students. Members of the City G. p could go
to - on a Saturday evening and mingle with
the crowd Negro comrades could be sent to
the several Negro districts and meet the Ne
gro workers at the stores or in their homes
c. P. members might find employment on the
city gang that digs in the bitches or they
might hang around the docks and learn from
the conversation of the workers and habitual
loafers lot that would be valuable in making
contacts, and creating solidarity between the
workers OF - and the city. 1 realize all this
is the work Of C. P. or Y.CL organizer. and
/ realize that much good work has been done
by the G. p. in the city; but in negiecting a ter
rtory only about seven miles away they are
losing time and also members
/ have distributed some Daily Workers and
Labor Defenders whenever possible to workers
most likely to understand and follow the know
ledge given to class conscious workers in the
two publications mentioned. My time and abil-
ity to do more is limited by the nature of nv
job. but the Job will not last much longer.
None OF them do any more. have heard sew
eral out-of-town sympathizers and c. p mem
bers complain that there was no place to pur-
chase Daily Workers in the city. 1t seems to me
some arrangement could be made to place D.W's
In stores, or at least have them sold on the
streets at noon and between and e-o'cock of
the afternoon and evening I realize the re-
luctance of some merchants to handle a Com
munist paper, but it seems only reluctance on
the part of C.P. or YCL members would keep
from selling the paper on the streets Or does
the LAW in the city forbid such reasonable
acts?
Cordially and fraternally,
A Worker