The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
Tasks of the Shop Papers in
the Recruiting Drive
By T. B.


In the general outline on how the Drive shall
be conducted, the necessity was pointed out for
concentrating our activities especially in the
shop mills mines, ETC.. and in the mass ofgani-
cations on the basis of class struggle; the nee
essity for the shop nucleus to approach singy
their fellow workers in the factories that are
near to our Party and known as fighters, as
sympathizers Of our movement; those workers
that are known to have voted for our Party;
the necessity that the street unit shall con-
centrate their energies on the shops assigned
to them, approaching the workers with whom
they have already established connections and
other workers who are known to our connec-
tons; the necessity that parallel with the in
dividual approach to the workers the units shall
collect information about the situation in the
shops in order that special leaflets may be is
sued where no shop papers are published which
will help the comrades in their work Of recruit
ing new members; the necessity that the shop
papers shall become real organizer in the Lenin
Recruiting Drive inside the shops appealing to
the workers in the factories to join our Party.
From this simple outline Immediately springs
forward the big role that the shop papers must
play n the drive. The shop papers are, SO to
say, the vanguard in the activities of our units
in their approach to workers in the shops. They
pre- oare the ground for the approach of indivi-
dual workers, sometimes of groups Of workers
The results of the Lenin Recruiting Drive will
depend in great measure on the way the shop
papers will deal with the specific problems of
the workers in the shops. The issuing of the
shop papers must become real activity of the
units, the instrument of the units in reaching
the workers in the shops where the units are
existing or street units are concentrating. Our
shop papers will succeed in preparing the ground
for approaching workers in the factories. mills
and mines only if the workers will find that
the shop papers really reflect the conditions in
the shops, speak their language, bring forth
their aims, discover all the mistreatment by the
bosses, absence Of safety Devices etc, will put
forward the immediate demand of the workers
and show them how they shall organize, and the
struggle shall be conducted for reaching these
demands.
= # in this way that the masses In the shops,
mines. mills, ETC., will understand that the shop
papei- issued by the factory nucleus of the Com
niun.st Party is their paper, which needs their
support for which they shall write, will under
stand that the shop paper is the organizer ir
the specific shop, MILL mine 1t is in this way
that the more class conscious worker will come
near to us and, approached by their fellow work.
er-the members of the units--will understand
the necessity of uniting their forces to those
Of our comrades of the units, to become men,
bers of the Party / nthis way in general the
influence Of the Party in all factories, mines
and mills thru the activity of the units of which
the issuing of the shop paper is part, will
steadily grow.
The appeal that the shop papers Issue for
joining the Party must arise from the conditions
in the shops, the necessity of strengthening the
nucleus, whose task is to organize and lead the
workers in their daily struggle for immediate
demands, preparing in this way the masses for
the biggest struggle of the future, for the strug
gle for their complete emancipation from capt.
talist exploitation, In which the nucleus will
really play the role of the general staff of the
workers in the specific shops mills and mines,
10 take power over them es