The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
PARTY LIFE
Conducted by the Organization Department of
the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A.
Resolution of Section 6. Dist z
on Lenin Recruiting Drive

May 3, 1881.
THE Section Committee in analyzing the re-
Gently concluded Lenin Recruiting Drive,
brings to the attention of the entire membership,
that in spite of the improvements in our meth
DDS of recruitments, there are many outstanding
shortcomings in our work.
l. For the first time the Party in Section 6
has succeeded in recruiting workers in its ranks,
from the section and unit territory, through
concentrated effort on the part of the units.
q The Party has made step forward in the
linking-up of the every day activities with the
bringing of workers into the ranks of the Party
by recruiting II proletarian and militant workers
from the Boro Hall Unemployed Council, and
Is others from our mass organizations. 3. BY
the use of the Daily Worker as means of gain
ing contacts Of workers in the unit territory and
by constant canvassing of the unit Daily Work
er readers and sympathizers for the Party, which
has brought the rest of the workers recruited into
the Party during the drive.
The Lenin Recruiting Drive has strengthened
the section, by improving it's proetaran COM
position. The workers gained in the drive being
from the building trades, metal, food printers,
unskilled laborerS, office and needle trades
workers
In view of the objective situation in our Sec
ton for the Party with increasing of unem-
ployment increasing of evictions, continuous
wage cuts infi cted upon the workers, the de-
veloping of strike struggles almost every week in
different shops, and the growing militancy and
response of the workers to the Party, the re-
cruiting of SIS workers into the Party in this
drive cannot be considered a success.
The Section Committee itself failed to cor
rectly estimate the capitalization of the Party
influence among the workers. by assigning itself
a quota of only 40 workers for the entire period
Of the drive, which has been surpassed by Is.
The main shortcomings Of the entire Party in
this drive have been: "a failure TO recruit work
ers from shops where our Party members are
working co Failure to recruit workers from
shop concentration points. 90 Failure to link
up, through an intensified effort on the Sec
ton Concentration Point the Lenin Recruiting
Drive. "a Failure to recruit workers from the
three shops where we have Party Shop Nuclei.
90 Involving of only IL per cent OF the Party
membership in the recruiting drive. CO. Failure
of the participation of the old Party members
with few EXCEPTIONS in the drive.
The gaining for the Party of only Negro
workers, young workers for the YCL and 6
women workers, considering the large Negro
population in our section and the large plants
with women and young workers, must be con-
sidered as an impermissible situation which the
whole Party must analyze and correct in its fu-
tlre work
The failure of the Unit Buros to Immediately
connect the newly recruited workers with the
Party Units. We have still IL recruits, who
are not yet connected 9ith the Party some OF
whom may be completely lost for the Party.
The task Of the Party Buros. is that Of main