The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-12

of the veterans for the bonus set
a wide strata of the population in
motion.
LITTLE PARTY RECRUITING
The Party participated and in
many cases played a leading role
in all these actions. Yet if we ex-
anime how many new members we
recruited during this period we VIII
find that all these struggles, strikes,
campaign meetings and other act
ivities passed by without being re-
Elected in our recruiting.
The Party members are active
among the masses, but we fail to
understand how to bring out the
role of the Party as the political
leader of the struggles We. have
not yet learned how TO demonstrate
to the workers that the Comlnu-
mist Party is in the forefront in
their struggles; that the Party is
q part of the working class, the
most advanced part, and the in
terest of the workers, is the in
terest Of the Party.
We talk about this to the work
ers, but we fail to show it to them
lii practical work. We repeat in
all our articles, speeches, the magic
Word-link up the struggles OF the
workers employed and unemployed,
with the election campaign, link
up the struggle against wage cuts
in the factories with the fight
against the war danger, ETC., etc.
let us consider the following
IL example: In a block where q
street nucleus is functioning there
is also a fairly good functioning
block committee with the members
of the unit leading the work there.
In the face of this, the unit as
signed a group of comrades to can
VaSs the houses in order to find
starving families and go with these
families to the Home Relief Bureau
to demand relief for them. This
was done in the name of the Com
munist Party.
AN EXAMPLE OF
LINKING UP"
What do we see here? A unit
having a real desire to do mass
work, yet because of deep-rooted
sectarian habits, instead of organ
izing through its members the
block committees, themselves as Or
ganizers of the struggle for relief,
this is done in the name of the
Communist Party. We wouldn't be
far from wrong if we said that
workers would rather fight for re-
lief in the name of a block COM
mittee than of the Communist
Party, a political organization with
which they may not have any sym
pathies as yet, leading their direct
immediate struggle for relief in the
block where they live.
One of the reasons, we assume,
why the unit where there is also
functioning block committee in
its territory, carried the fight for
relief in the name of the Party
is because the Comrades wanted to
link it up with the election cam
paign. What is the proper method
of linking up the struggle for I'M
employment relief with the election
campaign and how can the street
nucleus, as political unit of the
Party, appear as the leader of the
struggles for unemployment relief?
Here too let us consult the expert
ences. The Communist candidate
of the territory in which the block
committee is functioning, partici-
pated personally and actively in the
struggle against the eviction of
family in the territory. He set
good example himself, also helping
to carry back the furniture together
with the members Of the block
committee.
Here we could very we'll bring
out to the workers the fact that
the Communist candidates standing
on the platform Of the Party, are
in the lead of the struggle against
evictions and for unemployment re-
lief, alID, to discuss with the work.
ers the role and activities of the
candidates of the other, bourgeois
parties and the platform OF the
other, bourgeois parties on unem-
ployment. In connection with this
immediate struggle against evic-
tons and for relief, the Party unit
should have arranged open-air
and indoor meetings, with our cam
didate as the main speaker, dis
cussing the election campaign, par
ticularly around the issue of i'm
mediate relief and unemployment
insurance. Thus the Party would
appear both participating directly
in the struggles of the unemployed
also the Party unit would appear
as the political leader and organ
izer of the struggles Of the unem-
ployed. The election platform and
issues of the Party would then be
considered by the workers as their
very own, tested and understood
in the light Of their own expert
ences.
TO BE CONTINUED