The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-13
PARTY LIFE
Weaknesses
inCambaign
mill. District
By JACK Killing

H'A1E C4CSG4O44 oCI uS5lC5 ItIIloG NC
considered part of all our activi-
ties. 1t cannot be considered as a
separate campaign by itself. We
must, therefore, connect up all our
activities, in the shops, etc, among
the unemployed, with an explana-
ton to the workers why they should
support the Communist Party in
the election campaign This has
been said since the beginning of
the Election struggle. But ii has
not become a reality in our work.
In Chicago we have quite num-
Der Of examples, many of which
can no doubt be found in the other
districts
The Young Communist League
organized a ScottSbOro denonstra-
ton before the office of Oscar De
Priest. This demonstration was
connected up with immediate relief
for the young workers. From 1000
to 1900 workers gathered at the
demonstration and comageousIy
fought the police who attacked
them. Following this event we
worked out a detailed plan with
our section committee Of the South
Side. The workers in the neigh
borhood were aroused and very
sympathetic towards our move
ment The Republican and Demo-
cratic politicians will make at
tempts to penetrate among the
workers.
MUST PICK COMMITTEES
We must elect committees OF
comrades and go from house to
house in a number of blocks, to the
pool rooms, candy stores and
wherever the young workers gather,
and organize these young workers
into a Boost Foster and Ford
Club" and Support Newton Clubs"
Such clubs can be used to rally the
youth to support our Party in the
election campaign and build the
Y. G. L. Our comrades agreed.
Such a task would be very simple.
But we failed to carry this out.
Why? Our comrades have a "dem-
struggles. 2. They did not under
stand the need for crystallizing
the influence of the League into
organizational results, and through
this popularize the election strug-
gle and our candidates.
rs this example exceptional? NO!
We have another, even more
glazing, example, the coal fields.
Here not only the League, but also
the Party, is responsible.
We saw in Southern Illinois tens
of thousands of miners on strike
against wage-cut, at the same
time fighting against the mislead-
ership of the United Mine Workers
of America. The struggle here is
an example of heroism, miIitancy
and determination. The miners
throughout the field are condemn
ing both the Republican and the
Democratic Parties as parties of the
bosses, and saying they must sup
port a workers party.
MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
We have on our Party ticket a
miner from Springfield running for
Lieut.. Governor of Illinois. Ger
tainly this should have given us a
good opportunity to bring our Party
forward and win the confidence of
the miners. OF course, this we
could not do mechanically. We
would have to explain just why the
National Guard are in the field
and how the Republican governor
sent them to shoot down the
miners that there is no difference
between the Republicans and the
Democrats and the Socialists by
showing them how, under Mayor
Cermak, unemployed workers are
shot in Chicago under his demo-
cratic administration when they
fight for relief; how Judge Homer,
democratic candidate for governor
IN Illinois, came to Southern Hi
nois during the mine struggle and
had not one word to say about the
killing of the miners; how in Mil
waukee, under socialist administra-
ton, the workers are dubbed.
beaten and jailed. Then we could
show the role of Comrade Hershy,
a miner who is a candidate of our
Party in Illinois.
INSTEAD when we ask some Party
comrades in the field, NOW that
the workers condemn the Repub-
lican and Democratic Parties what
do you think the miners will do?"
They answer, "They will support
the Socialist Party, because they
have already gone through the
Democratic and Republican Par
ties. But they have not yet gone
through the Socialist Party. After
they pass through the Socialist
Party they will support the Com
munist Party"
Many workers still support the
Socialist Party, but not as some of
our comrades maintain because of
the stepping stage" that the work.
ers must pass through. This
theory" is 100 per cent incorrect.
1t is only because we have not
sufficiently exposed the Socialist
Party to the workers. There are
hundreds of examples of daily be-
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