The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
PARTY LIFE
Conducted by the Organization Department Of
the Central Committee, Communist PARTY. US.A
AIibis
By X. R.

WE can still notice in our units that mann
" members do not do nearly SO much worn
as they could 1t is the habit of so per cent
OF them to take things easy Many attend only
every other unit meeting and during the two
weeks that they take for themselves in this way,
invent reasons for not doing any Party work
for the next two weeks They spend as much
time in looking for excuses as it would require
for doing, even mechanically, the work the unit
requires
The units will have to expose new excuse
for the members not being active in it. Some
OF those who continually refuse to do work in
the unit explain that they must do work In
the trade union some declare that they have
1racuon meetings. some must attend meetings
tor the protection of the foreign born while
others must work in more or less mysterious
committees Which are often used as smoke
screens. Some comrades explain that those COM
mitteeS give them tasks to do even on unit
meeting nights. All of these must be exposed
First the unit buro must inspect the alibis, to
see if they are true; second, we know that no
other meetings are arranged for the night Of
the unit meeting, SO they should not prevent
a 100 per cent attendance in the unit Even
If there we're such meetings, they would not be
as important as the meeting of the basic or
ganization, the unit,
In addition to the old alibis (sck uncle. dy-
ing cunt, forgetting the address, lumbago, sprain-
ing ones wrisO these new ones have come up.
and they must be kicked out without mercy,
or the units will never be able to work with
full force
AS to those comrades that say their work in
the mass organizations prevents attending unit
meetings. the writer knows that these organiza-
tons hold the work of the Party in high esteem,
and so give Party members the opportunity to
attend Party meetings Besides, even if work
Is assigned for the unit meeting night the Par
ty members must know how to give their as
S1gnmentS to be done by the rank and file mem
berS of that organization
Comrades must stop making excuses - and
must start doing work instead Those comrades
who are really active in the mass organizations
appear to have time to do unit work also for
they know the Importance of unit work
Comrades who come to unit meetings display
ing WORKOUT exhausted figure due to work
ing 80 much" recently, must take an example
from them.
Only by the unit buros inspecting and ex-
posing the excuses that are used can we get
rid of our bad tendencies
Comment: Unit Buros should see TO il that
the Districts system of assignment of Party
Tasks is put into practice in their unit and in
Their Section generally Under this SYSTEM
comrades are assigned to work in specific mass
organization or in specific phase of work of
the Party itself as their main Party task by the
Section or District. Once this is done, the Unit
Buro will know perfectly well what work each
copAzade is doing besides his unit work; and In
addition to this the Unit Buro has the duty Of
checking up thru the Section Committee and
thru the fractions, and seeing TO 1t that the
comrades carry out their other task as well as
their unit work This system If properly put
into effect will end all alibis.