The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-28

| ing ana neeule INDUSTRIES. VI ue
veloping strikes in the marine anc
other industries. To lead these
struggles we must not only have
the correct policies. We must have
a strengthened Party organization
With strengthened Party organ
ization we shall be able with more
than redoubled emery to give
leadership to the mass struggles
and build the Industrial Unions
and Unemployed Councils of the
Trade Union Unity League. To
give leadership to the organiza-
ton and struggles of the Negro
masses of the poor working
farmers.
Again we quote Comrade Ruth
enberg to show how much impor-
lance he attached to Party build
ing as a task of the entire Party
and every individual member.
Our Party has never taken
advantage of its work among the
masses to win new members.
>. The members of our Party
arc hesitant about approaching
the workers with whom they
come in contact and who are
sympathetic to the work of the
Party. There are no per-
sistent and systematic efforts to
recruit new members.
If the whole membership of
the Party were to throw itself
into the work of winning new
members with the same enthusi-
asm and energetic work which
has been developed in some of
the Party campaigns we could
quickly double the membership
of the reOrganized Party.
And again very timely sugges-
ton:
The attitude which does not
consider every member of pros
pective member as precious ma
terial for the upbuilding of the
revolutionary movement must
be rooted out Of the Party.
The membership figures of the
Party are the best test of
whether the Party is conducting
its work in an effective manner.
We may have the most correct
program and the best policies
and tactics in carrying on our
work but if we do not couple
this with the recruiting of the
best elements among the workers
who support our Party our work
will not be permanent and we
are not taking full advantage of
our opportunities.
And comrade Ruthenberg did
not fail in this article to take up
the minutest details of this work.
He speaks abou the utilization of
mailing lists of our readers, of
organizing the Party members for
visiting the readers and numerous
other important details. Then he
adds:
Together with this work
among the workers whose names
are on our Party rolls and who
read our press the members of
the Party must be stimulated to
take up the recruiting campaign
4among the workers with whom
they come in daily contact. The
recruiting campaign must be
carried on in the factories thru
the shop nuclei in the trade
unions by the members if the
trade union fractions in the fra
ternal organizations by the
members of the fractions in
these organizations.
And finally we wish to quote the
following section of this article:
Build the Party" must be the
slogan which every member of
the Party transforms into
reality by active participation
in tho campaign to win back old
members and win new members
for the PARTY. :. Let every one
of the 10000 members of the
PARTY become a recruiting agent
for the Party with the object of
having every worker who is
sympathetic to the Party become
a member of the Party.
And we all of us in commem-
Grating the path of our dead
leader. In honoring his memory
can do nothing better than to fol