The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
On the Carrying Out OF the
18th Plenum Decisions
FLUCTUATIONS OF THE MEMBERSHIP

portant reasons for fuctuation. The circular
leadership from the district to the Sections from
the sections to the units, with scores of tasks,
instructions, decisions without any explanation,
belongs to this point The bureaucratic method
of leadership comes down from the district to
section committee meetings, from section to unit
meetings giving instructions instead of helping
the lower bodies to formulate the decisions and
to carry them out, is a factor in the turn over.
1t would be interesting to bring many examples
of bureaucracy, but the lack of space does not
allow it. However, the following are few ex-
amples:
The election campaign managers OF the sec
ton were called together for meeting where
concrete instructions were given out to each Sec
ton One section election campaign manager
could not come because he was involved in a
strike situation in his section. The next day he
came into the District Office and asked for the
instructions and material for his section. The
comrade who is responsible for this work in the
District refused to give any information on the
basis that the information will be given out
only at the meeting of these functionaries. The
comrade had to go back to the section without
getting the information continued the work on
his own hook and collected signatures in a ter
ritory where he should not have done it.
In a section a general mobilization of the
committee decided that another meeting should
be called and the following letter was sent out:
You must be present on this and this day and
go out to collect signatures If you do not show
up, consider yourself expelled from the Com
naunist Party
A Party member is very active in the Unem-
ployed Council An eviction case took place
and he was arrested and put in jail for 60 days
The unit was not well informed about the arrest
He came back to his unit when his term was
over and got the following reception; You are
not a Party member any longer. You did not
attend your unit meetings for two months. We
expelled you from the Party. If you want to
be a Party member you have to put in new
application"
TO- Lack of mass activity, too much inner
Party activity, create pessinism and disappoint-
ment. The members do not see any results from
their hard work and the result is that they
leave the Party.
These points are not elaborated on because
of lack of space. 1t is possible that the men,
bers in the units will find more reasons for the
fuctuation, which not mentioned above.
The members will have hundreds of good eX-
amples of bad methods of work, of leadership,
of bureaucratic tendencies, or formal, mechan-
icaI applications, of decisions, ETC. The Party
would gain lot if all of these examples and
suggestions were sent into the section and dis
trict committees for publication in the press
1t is very necessary to start discussion on this
burning problem.
All these shortcomings mentioned above can
be eliminated and corrected if we start a cam
paign against the bad tendencies in the Party.
The resolutions of the 18th Plenum of the Cen
trail Committee and the resolutions of the PIE
mum of the District Committee will remain
paper unless we correct every mistake and short
coming, by discussing them in the units section
and district committees, mercilessly criticiSing
all those who do not understand and do not
carry out the resolutions. The Party will not
grow if we do not wipe out all these bad ten
denotes in the district, section, and unit, We
will not be able to keep the new members that
we recruit from the factory. Our shop nuclei
will not exist unless we wage successful strug-
gle against every form of bureaucratic tendency
and unless we succeed in changing the bad
inner life of the units.