The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
Establish Permanent Contact With Mass
PrOletarian Organizations

Establish Permanent Contact With Mass
PrOletarian Organizations
FIRST of all, we speak of those mutual aid So
cieties which have for their basis the class
struggle and which provide insurance for work
ers and carry on wide cultural educational
work, and because of their very nature are near
to us.
At the present, time there is going on pro-
cess Of unihcation of all these organizations into
one central organization. These organizations
have great influence on the workers, especially
the immigrant workers, and show definite signs
of growth.
The members of these organizations, Hun
garianS, Russians, Czechs, Jugoslavians Poles
work as rule in the heavy industries, such as
mines steel mills, chemical factories automobile
plants. ETC. While these are members of these
fraternal organizations and take an active part
IN the work of the language organizations, sub
scribing to the press, they do not join the revo-
lutionary trade unions or any other union At
the same time, these proletarians with definite
revolutionary inclinations, who are usually sub
jected to severe exploitation represent an active
element which could be- without any special eff
fort, and should be, drawn into the ranks of
the revolutionary trade union organization
The VIZ ers' correspondence of the language
press can be utilized as workers correspondence
in the trade union press they can be drawn into
the work of establishing a trade union press.
we can carry on through them the recruitment
OF members into our organizations What must
be borne in mind is that the fraternal organi-
cations as we'll as mass workers organizations
as, for example the Workers International Re-
lief sport, the FSU, the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights etc, can in turn become reservoirs
from which the revolutionary trade union or
carnations can draw hundreds and even thou
sands of new active members
Therefore, it would be advisable to organize
IN these fraternal organizations and language
workers organizations, special commissions to
assist the revolutionary trade unions These
commissions could carry on a systematic agita-
ton and propaganda in the interests of the revo-
lutionary trade union movement could keep up
permanent contact with the revolutionary trade
unions, would supply the language workers press
with articles and notices on the question of the
trade union work, would carry on a recruiting
campaign for the revolutionary trade unions
among the members of the fraternal organiza-
tons well as among workers of the respec-
tive national organizations
OF course, all this work must be carried on
under the control and guidance of the trade union
organizations Close cooperation must be es-
tablshed between the revolutionary trade unions
and fraternal organizations. The revolutionary
trade unions must do everything possible to aid
the fraternal organizations, to help them to de-
velop their work, to become mass organizations
to help striking workers, ETC. The revolutionary
trade unions must take direct and active part
in the leading organs of the fraternal organi-
cations by sending in their representatives by
receiving reports and the discussion of those
reports regarding the activity of the fraternal
organizations at the general meetings of the
trade union.
The fraternal organizations must in turn be in
the closest touch with the revolutionary trade
unions, carry recruiting work, etc.
Not less attention must be given to the or
ganizaton of workers sports. These can be
utilized very well, especially during strikes, by
organizing sport exhibitions for the strikers to
aid the trade unions and also the fraternal or
CARNATIONS in the collection of funds for the
strikers and carry out various tasks in the sphere
of organization and agitation.
In these organizations there are many active
proetarians who not members of any trade
union and who must be drawn into the ranks
OF the revolutionary trade unions. 1t is there
fore necessary TO establish strong contacts with
the organizations OF workers sports in the CEN
YER and in the district; for mutual cooperation.