The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-30
Party Recruiting Drive
January IL March IS, 1882
THE RECRUITING DRIVE IN DIST 5, PITTSBURGH

weak in recruiting Negro workers and Is plan
ming to take serious steps to develop activity
among the Negro masses and carry on system
attic recruiting work.
". LIBRARY SECTION
The Library section has decided to recruit 100
new members Of which SO shall be Negro work
ers. good section conference was held where
the representative from the Chicago District pre-
sented Chicago's challenge and a thorough dis
cussion on the recruiting possibilities took place.
The section is concentrating on establishing
mine units in three mines Of the Pittsburgh
Terminal Coal Co., well as two steel mill
nuclei and one mine unit in the Pittsburgh Coal
Co. The existing mine nuclei In Terminal No.
mine is very enthusiastic about the recruiting
drive and is determined to get 10 new members
from the mines. The unit has now ii members,
all OF them white workers, and has made de-
cision that they must recruit some Negro work
ers. They expect to be able to divide the nuclei
into several mine nuclei before the drive is over
The section conference decided to recruit not
less than Is women to establish 4 nuclei OF the
YCL. The miners in the Pittsburgh Terminal
Mines are now confronted with 10 per cent
wage cut on February 1st. They have already
twice before been threatened with wage cuts,
and both times the activity Of the Party and
NNdU prevented the wage cuts from being
ried through. Now the comrades realize the
necessity Of establishing strong mine units in all
OF these mines so as to be able to lead the strug
giles Of the miners against the coal operators
attacks The prestige of the NNfU and the Party
has been growing because of our activity against
the wage cut and there are good possibilities
for establishing several strong mine units The
section conference also decided to pay special
attention to the upper Monongahela part of the
section which has heretofore been somewhat
neglected, and establish q number Of new units.
V. AVELLA SECTION.
Work is beginning. The Atlasburg unit had
a meeting at which a district representative was
present too :ther 18th the comrade from Chi
cago- where a good discussion took place in the
recruiting drive. % comrades were present
This unit has several working in the Atlasburg
Mine and plans to establish mine unit. Its
task is also to get connections with the workers
in the American Zinc Company. The unit de-
cided to challenge the Bend mine unit at
southern Illinois, that the Atlasburg unit would
get 10 new members, of whom are to be work
ing in the Atlasburg mine, before the Bend unit
could achieve the same quota.
VI. WASHINGTON SECTION
The Washington Section, which has had many
difficulties resulting in certain weakness of
the organization, is now beginning to become
active again, The section committee has ser
iously discussed the recruiting drive and COM
rades have already been assigned for special con-
centration. For the first time in q number OF
weeks, they have begun the recruiting work and
are already sending in new applications. They
plan special concentration to organize unit in
the Westland Mine, the most important mine in
this section The Washington section commit