The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-01

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Planning of Agenda
Let me tell you how my own unit
functions. We are far from perfect
(but hell, false modesty is not Boil
shevik virtue). The fact is that our
unit meetings are interesting, there
fore the comrades come on time, and
out unit has grown constantly. In
four months we have split twice and
are ready to split again.
What is the basis of our growth?
A well functioning buso that is not
burocratic, planning of the work,
planning of the meetings agenda
carefully, plenty of educational &C
tivity, and plenty of discussion at the
meetings. To begin with, we keep
it as a strict rule that every other
week is devoted to political education,
that every meeting must start prompt
ly at and end at 10 or at 1915, that
the buro meets on the business nights
at and on the educational nights
at 7:30. Let us first examine our
business meeting: The buro consist
ing of the organizer, agit-prop di-
rector, literature agent and financial
secretary meets at Z. The agenda is
planned SO that each item should
take only a certain time. At the side
of each item we mark the time when
it should be terminated as q cue to
the chairman. The buro sees to it
that each member of the unit act as
chairman. The first things on the
agenda are literature and dues. At
3:15 promptly that matter is done
with. The second item on the agenda
is given over to the organizer and the
section tasks. The third part of the
agenda is devoted to the work of the
unit The fourth item is new bust
ness. The fifth is announcements.
AT 1854 we are finished with that,
and from than to 1918 is devoted to
a discussion of current events.
How Unit Meetings Are Conducted
Now let us see how the meeting is
conducted. At 8 the meeting is called
to order by the chairman. We had
given him Cor herr the agenda and
instructed him to run the meeting
snappily, to allow discussion, but not
too much talk that is getting nowhere.
Up to 8:15 the meeting looks chaotic.
There is scramble for the literature.
Aside from the Party press, coca
slonally one or two choice pamphlets
show up and they are hastily bought.
Occasionally too, the agit-prop di-
rector brings down the more expensive
books and sells them on the installment
nlcn--1H Ppr1fc q rryoa1y Sc
In this respect to start a circulating
library among our own members. At
BIS the business begins. A brief ex-
PLANTATION by our organizer that we
are preparing for hunger march,
that the following committees have
to be set up, and that the buro makes
certain recommendations for those
committees. A brief discussion on the
recommendation, some remarks and
suggestions on carrying out the work,
and the matter is disposed with. In
like manner we follow through on
the remaining tasks that are assigned
to our unit by the section.
At this stage too, there OCCASION
ally comes up a criticism of our past
work for the section. Where mis-
deeds Cor rather mistakes) are made
by the leading comrades in the Sec
ton, such mistakes are exposed and
our organizer is instructed to give all
round he'll at the next organizers
meeting. Occasionally we doubt that
the policy or tactic of the section is
correct. We have thorough discus
sion on the point, but unless there
is preponderent number opposed to-
such policy or tactic, the matter re-
mains in our unit. We take the at
titude that the leading comrades
might have known circumstances or
conditions that we were net aware Of.
hence the policy that we adopted.
We next come to unit work. The
first part of this is the Daily Worker.
We are trying to establish a route.
but have not been successful as vet.
NOW we are going to go about the
work Systematically. We will con-
centrate on one territory, and every
week the Daily Worker agent viii !
nave to cover that territory and re-
port on what progress he has made.
Next we hear a report from our
Open Forum Committee. We have |
establish an Open Forum in pub
lie school, and through this forum
we have exposed the N.R.A., ap-
preaching Fascism, etc. Next we hear
brief reports or shop or trade union
work, or mass organizations. One
business meeting we have the first,
the next we have the second. In this
way, the members of the unit are
made to feel the responsibility for the
mass organizations in our territory.
They report on how well or badly the
mass organization functions, we Of