The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-29
Party Recruiting Drive
January II March IS, 1882
RECRUITING DRIVE AND NEGRO WORK

to develop the proper tactics suitable for the
situation. While it is true that the recruiting
drive must be carried out on the basis of i'm
mediate struggles in connection with the imme-
date demands OF the working class (unemploy-
ment relief, against wage-cuts, against evictions
and cutting off of gas and electricity, etc., the
special forms of persecution and oppression
which the Negro masses suffer as a national
minority must be given great attention, and the
necessary struggles must be carried on against
them. 1t is only on this basis will we succeed
to win, recruit and retain the Negro workers.
The recruiting drive takes place at a time
when the rising upSurge of the Negro masses
against imperialist oppression is developing at
rapid tempo. The hunger marches to the differ
ent capitols taking place with the Negro
workers taking a prominent part in the fore
front. While Kentucky sees ten thousand Ne
gro and white miners in a hectic battle against
starvation by the coal barons, Chicago is
alarmed at the tremendous demonstrations and
persistent struggles of Negro workers in soldar-
ity with white workers battling against unem-
ployment, hunger and starvation. The South
for the first time in its history since the civil
war is terrified; the Negro share choppers are
organizing into militant share-croppers' unions,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia recently
saw 10000 Negro and white miners in valiant
battle against starvation wages. The ScottSboro
legal-lynch frame-up is witnessing thousands of
Negro workers in solid unity with the white
workers demonstratively demanding freedom for
the nine Negro boys.
simultaneously with this rising spirit of strug-
gle of the Negro workers. the capitalists have
unleashed a savage and bloody reign OF terror
against them. To top it all the Negro mis-
leaders have completely unmasked themselves,
and are now markedly joining the oppressors in
crushing the rising revolutionary struggles OF
the Negro masses.
In the present recruiting drive, therefore, the
Party must come forward both as the leader of
the Negro masses in their struggles and as their
defender against imperialisms bloody attacks
and oppression. In the shops, mines and fac
tories on the farms and plantations-n short
wherever Negro workers are, we must penetrate
in this recruiting drive. We must once and for
all eliminate the periodic, sporadic struggles in
behalf of the rights of the Negro masses which
we have been carrying on up to now and re-
place them with CONSISTENT, determined
ones.
The struggles against lynching, evictions, I'M
employment determinations Segregations-ln
short, the struggles against the whole vile ma
tional oppression of the Negro masses must be
redoubed and utilized the basis for the en-
roIlment of Negro workers in our present re-
cruiting campaign. No more vacillations, no
more underestimations. Forward to making the
recruiting drive a success in drawing in and re-
tanning masses of Negro workers in our Party.
NOTE:-This article is good for general agi-
tation 1t is generally too abstract, not con-
cretely stating how Negro workers can be re-
cruited (for instance) from laundry or the
marine industry to the Party. Negro workers
in New York are not steel, coal mining or stock
yards workers in basic industries but they are
engaged in transport which is basic, and large
numbers are Disseminated against and doubly
exploited in the needle trades. These people in
such industries are not domesticS Gas the general
conception is the majority of Negroes in Har-
lem are domestics) but proletarians. They are
excellent material for our Party and trade
unions We have conducted insufficient strug-
giles for the special and economic demands OF
the Negroes in Harlem, and have failed to carry
on a sustained fight against white chauv1nlsm.
These weaknesses must be overcome during the
recruiting-Ed.