The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08

go The Pohtburo, however, is of the opinion
that the New York District Committee, by inn
mediately inaugurating the sharpest Bolshevik
self-criticism from top to bottom in the district
accompanied by decisive lf-corrective measures,
and with more help and guidance from the Cen
trail Committee than has been given in the past,
will be able to quickly overcome the present I'M
satisfactory situation and make the turn to more
effective work among the unemployed. at the
shops and factories, and in the Negro field which
in this period constitute the most important tasks
for the District
In order to overcome these grave and serious
weaknesses, though, the Party organization in
the New York District must make sharp turn
in its methods of work and methods of leader
ship.
The Central Committee makes the following
proposals to the District Committee as the basis
for its future plan of work around which the
entire Party membership must be rallied for
thorough discussion of the weaknesses and i'm
mediate tasks of the Party to be followed by
collective effort of the entire membership, with
firmer leadership by the District Committee, in
overcoming these weaknesses and modifying the
Party for effective mass work
The Central Committee proposes that the Dis
trict Committee and Bureau be broadened by
adding number Of workers from the shops.
The District Committee must become the lead
ing Party Committee with frequent regular
meetings.
The District Bureau must assume full respon-
sibiity for the organization of collective work
and collective leadership through functioning de-
partments supervised and coordinated by the
Bureau and the Secretariat.
A live personal contact must be established
and maintained between the District Committee
basis of assigning members of the District Com
mittee to these bodies to give them effective
guidance and assistance in developing the initia-
tive and authority of the lower Party Committees.
The development of new cadres must become
planned and systematic process of drawing Party
comrades from the factories into the responsible
work in the Party Committees and departments
and giving these comrades systematic training
and comradeIy guidance.
The District Committee shall create and work
out plan of frequent meetings of an ''Active"
on a District and Section scale, of comrades who
maintain close contact with the masses and the
rank and file of the Party.
The work of the leading forces in the Dis
trict and Section Committees as well as of Unit
functionaries shall be SO organized that mini
mum amount of time is spent in inner Party
meetings SO that they may be organically con-
nected with all phases of mass work by actually
participating in it.
The remnants of bureaucratic tendencies and
forms of work must be exterminated through the
organization of systematic self-criticism a
method of mobilizing the entire Party member
ship into active participation to overcome the
weaknesses of the Party and its mass activities.
Development of new methods of work essen
tial to the carrying out of the line of the 18th
Plenum of the Central Committee can only be
achieved effectively if the leading comrades and
the Party Committees actively participate in the
mass work of the Party and carefully examine
the inner life, activity and experiences of the
lower units.
The Party must be orientated towards activity
in the shops and factories with the objective of
quickly Transforming the Party on a shop nu-
cleus basis, as the basic work of the Party. To
this end the Party in New York District shall
concentrate its best forces in the Marine Textile
and Needle industries with the immediate task
of building factory groups Grievance Commit
tees, Shop Committees and factory branches of
the TUUL unions on the basis OF the struggle for
the workers partial demands. There must be
established a coordination of activities in the
shops and concentration points by the Party and
the revolutionary trade unions.
The Party Committee must make a thorough
examination of the weaknesses of the TUUL
unions, including recent strike experiences, and
give adequate guidance and its best forces to
the unions at the same time organizing their
activities in such way that the leading forces
in the unions are actively drawn into the lead
ership in the Party Committees OF the District,
| Sections and the Units.
The DirectiveS of the Central Committee on
Unemployment work must be Immediately car
ried out. Leading forces of the Party are to be
assigned to Unemployed Councils functioning
fractions organized and given day to day guild
ance and assistance in modifying and activizing
the masses of unemployed and employed work
ers on the basis of burning local issues and con-
crete cases of suffering and starvation. The lead
ing committees Of the Party must give special at
tention to these daily activities and the inner
life Of the Councils and its branches and on the
basis of the thorough examination of the work,
problems and experiences in this sphere of Party
activity work out concrete directives for the
| establishment of branches of the Unemployed
| Councils throughout the District and especially
| in the proetarian neighborhoods.
The grave weaknesses in the Party's work
| among the Negro masses and in the struggle for
| Negro rights can only be overcome when the
District Committee takes direct responsibility for
| this work and assigns leading members of the
District Bureau to the Negro Department and to
| the Section Committees for Negro work The
| District Committee shall especially concentrate
| in the Harlem Section by assigning some of its
best forces there to carry through with District
| Committee guidance the sharpest struggle