The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
For Decisive Turn in Our Revolutionary Trade

gress and results of the revolutionary compe-
ton.
The broad mass recruiting campaign could be
opened by a special recruiting campaign week"
For the successful conduct of the campaign it is
necessary to activize each individual member of
the revolutionary union It is desirable to organ
ize special agitator groups Such groups of 3-5
members including representatives of women
youth and Negroes have to be instructed in the
political and organizatonal methods of recruit
ing, they must be provided with agitational ma
terial, registration blanks, trade union stamps
etc.
The district and section where these agitator
groups are to be sent must be established def
nitely beforehand. The members of these groups
are to visit workers homes, there to carry on
conversations with workers and their wives re-
cruting into the ranks of the respective union
The newly recruited members must be invited to
the next meeting of the union to draw them
into the factory group, to give them chance
to becon : active by assigning definite tasks
The new recruits must receive comradely at
tention and support, and we must help them in
carrying out the assigned tasks. The recruit
ing must be carried on not only among the en-
ployed workers, but also among the unemployed
exempting them from the payment of initiation
fees and membership dues.
The new members from the ranks of the I'M
employed must be first of all utilized for work
in the auxiliary organs such as functionarieS in
the councils of the unemployed and thus
strengthen the nucleus in the unemployed move
ment through which the revolutionary trade
union movement must carry through its line.
To Create a Solid Financial Base
The financial base Of the revolutionary trade
unions is extremely weaE. The membership dues
are not paid regularly The financial relation
ship between the lower and the higher organs
Of the union Is not carried through There are
no real financial plans in the work of the unions
there is no system which would establish the
part of the membership dues that must go for
the expense of that apparatus. administrative
expenses, travelling, etc, and which part must
go directly for other expenses, and also what
part is to go to the strike fund.
We must in the shortest possible time regu-
late all these questions and establish solid
financial base. We must nstil into the minds of
the membership the necessity of fulfilling their
financial obligations, of the uninterrupted reg
ular payment Of dues. We must immediately
establish in all sections Of the revolutionary trade
union organizations, from top to bottom, special
permanently functioning finance commissions
These finance commissions, consisting Of from
three to seven workers and headed by one of
the elected leading workers of the given trade
union organ, must also attract active proeta-
rian elements.
The duties of these finance commissions are
as follows. To develop plans for the improve
ment of the dues collections, to develop prac-
teal measures in order to strengthen the finan-
cial means of the union-voluntary collections
and donations, the organization of parties, af-
fairs concerts theatrical productions, etc.; they
must receive reports on the financial situation
and financial plans Of the lower organs of the
union; they must also work up form of finan-
cial accounting, to Systematically train workers
for collection Of dues, etc.
Each trade union organization must have a
budget which should c5-cr the many expenses
the strike fund, what part to the higher trade
unioN organs. what part to go to the upkeep of
the trade union apparatus and administrative
expenses. All unions must Immediately begin
to consider and develop a financial system at
the next conventions or conferences The re-
spective decisions must be carried out strictly
by all the sections of the trade union organiza-
ton The execution of these decisions to be
controlled by the Control Commission.
The Control Commission consisting Of from
five to seven members must be elected at the
general membership meetings of the union of
given local organization ;or II this Control Com
mission Is one OF the higher organs Of the union,
it should be elected at the congresses or con-
ferences o. the trade union.
The duties of the Control Commission con-
sist Il Che auditing of the income and expenses