The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09


sued by the Central Committee of the
Communist Party. distributed to al
new members, entitled Revolution
airy Greetings" We print below the
Introductory remarks. Besides there
is a section on what to Read" as
we'll as short statements on ''Democ-
racy and Discipline" Some Basic
Communist Duties" and Structure
of the Communist Party:
Dear Comrade:
Today you have become full
fledged member of the Communist
Party of the United States and Of
the Communist International. We
welcome you in our ranks as new
recruit to the international army OF
millions, who. under the banner oil
Leninism, is fighting for the eman-
cipation of mankind from the yoke
of capitalism.
We greet you in the name of thou
sands of fighting Communists in
America.
We greet you in the name of those
proletarian fighters whom capitalist
"justice" has thrown into its jails
and prisons.
We greet you in the name of those
comrades whom the murderously
brutal capitalist police have killed or
the picket line and in workers DEM
onstrations. We greet you as one
who steps into the ranks of revolu-
tionists to finish with us what they
died for, the Proletarian Revolution
We greet you in the name of the
millions of Communists the worlc
over, with whom we are Joined ir
our World Party, the Communist In
| ternatioral.
We greet you in the name Of the
Russian Bolsheviks, whose examples
you are pledged to follow.
We remind you that through your
voluntary entrance into our Party
you have pledged yourself to carry by
all means the struggle for the over
throw of bourgeois rule in accordance
with the decisions of the Party. From
now on. the decisions of the Party
and the decisions of the Communist
International are your highest COM
mand. The duties of solidarity anc
discipline in struggle are not easy
and you must take them seriously
You have not merely come to us tt
manifest your approval Of us and tt
pay your dues. If you want to be &
Communist then your whole life anc
all your activities must be devoted tt
Communism. You cannot be a Party
member only in Party meetings. Yol
must be a Communist in your work
in your shop. in your home and i.
every organization to which you be.
long. You must fulfill your Commu'
mist duty at every post the Party as.
signs to you. If you want to do you
duty as a Communist, then you mus
disregard all taunts and sarcasms, al
insults and hate to which all Of u
are subjected.
You must tirelessly devote yourself
to the task of absorbing the tremen.
dous experience which the interna
tional proletariat has gained in it
struggle for emancipation, and who's
expression is Marxism-Leninism Th'
Proletarian Revolution, the Dictator
ship of the Proletariat. demands O.
each member of the Party that lead
the revolution the development of ex
traordinary abilities, sacrifices anC
endurance. Think of what the 500,00l
Bolsheviks did when under the lead
ership Of Lenin, they led a nation O
16G,000,000 people through four year
Of the sharpest civil war. For al
these great dutiss we can offer 70,
only the right, as comrade, will
us to decide the role and fate Of oul
Party, the Party which in the visible
future will decide over the fate O.
this country.
Your coming into our Party is oul
guarantee that you are fully pre-