The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-26
BY RENELDA GUBEBs
District Agit-PrOp District ,

District Agit-Prop District
IN spite of the wide explanations that have
been made to the Party members explaining
10 them the importance of recruitment Of new
members into the Party, and how 10 do it, we
still find that many of the Party members still
have not overcome their right tendencies to
underestimate the rehabilitation Of the workers,
TO hesitate to draw them into the Party, even
these workers show their willingness and fitness
TO join the Party.
Such is the case In Flint, Michigan Due to
the extreme police terror there the repeated
raiding of our meetings or meeting places, the
comrades there are constantly in fear OF bring
ing in stool pigeons or police spies into the Party.
Their fear is so great that they have stopped
almost all activities, and efforts to reach and
organize the Flint workers, who are for the most
part auto workers, working in the Buick, Chew
rolet and General Motors plants in Flint.
worker had often asked a comrade, how could
he Join the Party, and time after time he showed
his eagerness to become active in the revolu-
tionary field But in spite of this, time after
time, the Party member answered only indirectly
and that was ALL even tho he had known this
worker for long time and knew him to be an
honest worker. Contact after contact was made
in Flint but still no efforts made to bring them
closer to the movement. And added on top
of this, these same comrades came together week
after week and merely repeated the phrase Of
we must recruit new members" and then went
home
In other words, these comrades instead OF
tearing down the walls between themselves and
the workers, only built it higher.
Having been sent to Flint to assist the com
rsdes, in the discussion they had on how to
recruit members into the Party IN Flint I sug-
gested that they call 9 meeting OF all the con-
facts that hey had mads for the purpose Of ex-
planning to these workers what the Farty was
and how and why they should join it, etc. The
night Of the neetirg was arranged for the fol-
lowing Thursday but that night was q terrific
storm IN spite OF tbs weather there were five
workers present, one Of them e woman worker
The meeting was an explanation OF the His
tory Of the Party, the role Of the Party in the
Soviet Union, the role OF the Party in the Uni
ted States, the struggles OF the revolutionary
unions. the struggles OF the workers that the
Party is leading, and why the workers should
Join the Communist Party. All of this was told
in brief and simple fashion
These workers were enthusiastic over this talk
and declared that that was the first explanation
of the Party that they had ever had, and that
this explanation would even make it easier for
them to understand sons Of the articles in tbs
Daily Worker and our other Party literature.
One Of the workers had been on the National
Hunger March, and he gave g short talk on
his impressions OF this great march Of the IN
employed to Washington Questions were asked
and the meeting ended after all Of the workers
had Joined In discussion.
The comrades were delighted and somewhat
surprised over the enthusiasm Of the workers,
and how these workers, with the exception Of