The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-01

on the basis Of the program of de-
mandS Of our Party. In the months
Of the election campaign in the
Chicago District, the number Of
workers recruited into the Party
was on the average below the nor
NAL growth of the Party of the
previous three months. We must,
not only in the election campaign,
but in all activities and struggles,
overcome this continual weakness,
which is no more mere weakness
but main obstacle for further de-
velopment Of the struggle.
PRESENT TASKS
The task confronting our Party is
to consolidate organizationally the
workers who voted Communist on
November 8. In some precincts, for
example, precincts 80, ward 2, in
Chicago, we received 1903 votes out
of total of 413. The task of the
Party section and unit is to Or
ganize these 103 workers who voted
Communist into the trade unions,
Unemployed Councils, International
Labor Defense, and into the Com
munist Party and utilize these
workers as an organizational base
toward winning the rest Of the
workers in that precinct and make
it a red precinct. The same applies
to every other precinct and every
other city. This cannot be done
mechanically but only on the basis
Of developing activities and strug-
giles in the shops and in the given
neighborhood concrete issues facing
the workers which might be wage
cuts, evictions, foreclosures on the
homes Of workers, struggle for i'm
mediate relief, for social and I'M
employment insurance, soldiers
bonus, discrimination, etc.
THE experiences obtained by our
1 Party in the November elections,
must be utilized for the April alder
manic elections in Chicago as we'll
as in the mining and other towns
where local elections will take place.
Concerning the municipal elections,
we must at the very beginning ap-
proach it on the basis Of the united
front from below. Section commit
tees and units must in their local
struggles, already begin to popu-
larize perspective candidates, Party
members or revolutionary non
Party members, for aldermen,
mayor. ETC., by bringing them to the
forefront in the everyday struggles.
Our candidates must be known to
the masses as organizers, fighters
and leaders Of the struggles. The
masses judge us by deeds-not by
words.
Practically, the following should
be the plan: Subject to concertiZa-
ton and modification to local con-
ditionS0 In the city Of Chicago in
every ward, the Communist Party is
to call working class united front
conference for the purpose of work
ing out q program and nominating
candidates. To such conference
delegates shall come not only from
our organizations, but from local
unions Of the A. F. of L., T. U. U. L.,
all kinds Of working class organiza-
tons, workers from the shops to call
to elect delegates, from
the rank and file members of the
Socialist Party, Farmer Labor Party,
from fraternal organizations, from
working women, small home owners
association, from the association of
small depositors of the bankrupt
banks, from ex-soldiers; in short,
from the toiling and oppressed
It must be real united
front from below, a fighting united
front from below, fighting united
front. Such @ conference shall
adopt the program and endorse the
1t sahll set up broad
committee that will have the task to
every worker and working
class organization, workers in the
shops of that neighborhood, to
carry on campaign in such a
manner that in the working class
wards in Chicago we can actually
become factor.
IN the mining and steel towns we
' should proceed in the same man
ner, and if it is impossible in some
cases to place the Communist
ticket, we shall not hesitate to place
on a united workers
ticket in which the Communists,
when they are placed on it, must
carry the election campaign as
Communists and build the Party
Nowhere shall we
place on the workers ticket or
Communist ticket these elements who
might come in who are known as
rntsleaders Of workers of all shades.
Nowhere do we establish blocks
with reforrnist organizations
everywhere the election, carnpaign
Is to be placed ON the basis of a
united front from below.
In all our election campaign &C
tlyity, in all our united front
struggles our press Daily Worker,
Workers Voice, Labor Unity, Lib
orator, Labor Defender, Working
Woman, ETC., as well as revolution
airy literature must receive maxi
mum attentio nand especially the
press, which must actually reflect
the struggles Of the masses and
must become the organizer and
leader of the given struggle. This
was not the case in the November
elections. AS result OF such ac-
Jivities, build the Communist Party,