The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
On the Carrying Out Of the
18th Plenum Decisions
Directives for Building Up the New Party Units in
PITTSBURGH
Pittsburgh


and discussion as to how the unit can best carry
through these tasks for the coming week.
c. At the conclusion of the meeting, there shall
De handed to each unit organizer an organiza-
tion letter written more in the form of re-
mnder simply enumerating the three tasks al
ready discussed by the reporter, with few of
the outstanding suggestions for carrying them
through made in order to aid the unit organizer
in making up the order of business and in re-
porting back to his unit In no case should this
letter be more than one page long. In most
cases. it should be only half page. In other
words it must be our aim to make these weekly
meetings of the unit organizers in given sec
ton, not only organizational notifications for
the carrying through of work, but also means Of
the most careful political education Of our new
members on the basis of the immediate tasks
confronting the Party.
81 The unit organizers at their unit meetings
should report to the unit in connection with
these tasks much in the same manner as the
section organizer has reported at the section
meeting. In other words it should be aim
for the unit organizer, in the course of the unit
work to carry through the political education
Of all members of the unit We recognize that
these new unit organizers will not make very
good job of this at the beginning, but we are
confident that they will do much better job in
organizing the work of their unit and educating
the unit membership by this method than
through the reading of a six-page organization
letter
~ We shall not at once set up in the new units,
unit buros by mechanical ukase. In fact it is
our opinion that shall not at present even
elect full staff Of functonaries in our new units.
It must be obvious that it is absurd and can
only prove harmful to elect as agitprop director
a comrade who has been in the Party only one
month and has no conception of this task. 1t is
our opinion that at first only two functonaries
shall be elected namely unit organizer and unit
Daily Worker literature agent.
In the Pittsburgh area where the life of the
unit is directly connected with the National
Miners Union, it will also be necessary for the
unit organizer to assure the active participation
of the unit membership in the life and work of
the unit. comrade may be drawn in to assist
the unit organizer in this task.
AS for the unit buro-we shall establish at first
no formal unit buros We shall speak person.
ally to the unit organizer and the Daily Worker
agent and explain TO them that now that they
have been elected to their posts, they are the
leaders Of the unit and that therefore they must
not constitute themselves formal buro with
minutes etc, but that prior to each unit meet
ing they shall sit down and discuss briefly how
best the unit can carry through Its tasks, We
must avoid any formality in this kind of meet
ing. 1t must be simply discussion between the
two leaders of the unit how best to lead the unit
during that week.
Even in older units Of the Party where we do
not at present have functioning buros, we must
not approach this question mechanically We
must set up buros gradually in the course of the
work. through personal discussion with the COM
rades and not through written instructions.
s. In our new units of the Party, we must do
away as far as possible with those more or less
formal aspects of the unit work which require
considerable technical ability on the part of our
comrades This means that we shall not require
in our new units, formally kept minutes at this
time. 1t is enough if the organizer keeps rec
ord of the most important decisions of the unit
on the carrying out of tasks and reports these
to the section organizer at the weekly confer
ences of unit organizers.
In conclusion, we want to again impress on
you that Journalism in the work. the give out of
mechanical directives from above without con-
cretizng them for the immediate situation faced
by the unit is the surest way to drive members
from our Party. Only through personal leader
ship and the most patient explanation of tasks
and careful guidance in the practical work. can
our new members be held in the Party, our units
consolidated and our Party bolshevized.
Org. Department c. C.