The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
PARTY LIFE
Conducted by the Organization Department of
the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A.
Concentrate the Unemployed
Work!
BY THOMAS DOHERTY.
(BrOOkIyn, n. W

IN Brooklyn, we brought in about eight men,
bers into the Party from the Borough Hall
Unemployed Council if not more. There are
plenty more good elements but they must be
gone after The Party units did not render any
help with the drive for membership. They did
not send comrades into the ranks of the Coun-
Gil to help bring them in. Instead they came
down only to talk Party and when it came
to giving out leaflets, they found they had an
important date and left. And many thousand
leaflets never left the place While the unem-
ployed did their share, the Party just left every
thing to them. The unemployed workers are
willing, but where is the leadership? There is
neglect on the part of the Party, or should 1 say
the Section.
The women were asking us to organize the
women. asked them to send a committee down
and would get a committee and go from house
to house with them to organize the women
Their answer was, they were short of forces their
Council had only 25 wonish in it. I told them if
I had 25 men could call on all the time to
really go out organizing, l would consider it a
miracle. You see they want new members but
are not willing to go out after them.
1t is not right for me to complain without sug-
costing a remedy. I therefore say you should set
real Brooklyn Branch working by combining all
the old Brooklyn councils into one and branch
ing out later. Have all eviction cases handled
through this branch. Build up this branch and
then step by step We can build up new ones, at
the same time developing speakers from our
new forces Each Industrial League should as
sign at least one comrade to help the branch,
as the Unemployed Branches are very useful to
the Leagues. The Womens Council should help
Also as there are just as many women out of work
and ripe for organization, but lacking leader
ship.
The Negro question can be easily solved by
forming committee and directly going in among
them and talking directly to them instead Of
the old practice of leaflet that half of them
can't read. A house-to-house canvass is the
only means of foundation, and the rest is easy.
There have been meetings held on corners for
them without results because speakers talking to
them are not trusted by them and most of these
talks are on Political Line instead of high cost
OF living and unemployment which is most inn
portant to the average person. In Borough Hall
Section the Negroes live in the filthiest places
and pay high rents, and reduction in rent
would appeal to most of them, and sure if the
right organizer got among them it you'd be q
cnch to organize.
l have spoken to several myself and they told
me would have to prove was sincere, and as
to being equal, one wanted me to go to preach
er; she told me 1 spoke like he speaks, and 1
had tough time convincing her that this
preacher is not sincere. This shows words are
not enough just the same we are not going to
get anywhere with dreams or rubbing Aladdin's
lamp or talking. 1t means hard work and it's
up to us to throw all our forces into one spot
and then spread out accordingly Have all our
units around here give their unemployed to func-
ton with this branch and by this way you will
bring in new forces and spread out; otherwise
we will stay stagnated for many moons and
heards like Pin Va irnln