The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20
A Conlrdde Is Waiting
For You

rpEE Communist Party has twenty thousand mem
bers Twenty thousand Communists, fighters de-
yosed to the emancipation Of the working class Un-
doubtedly there is still among Us many member,
many functionary, who has not yet learned to work
correctly The Party that is the nucleus the frac-
tson the section and especially the District Com
rnittee and the Central Committee, must pay still
more attention to educate the members and to give
them practical help. Undoubtedly the whole Party
aas to learn continuously in order TO work with ever
greater success.
But one thing Is certain the twenty thousand
Communist workers are faithfully devoted fighters,
This is not small number-twenty thousand Com
muuists working among the masses. tremendous
force if every Communist is leader of the workers
In his field of activity leader of the workers in
shs small and big struggles.
But who can deny that tens Of thousands, even
hundreds Of thousands of Communists, still OUT
Ssde the Party7 Who deny that thousands Of
fellow workers in the steel plants, in the mines, in
the auto factories among the unemployed, in all
strata Of the workers, will tomorrow be devoted Com
znunists Will multiply tenfold the force Of the Party
among the rni1lion-nasses of the proletaratP
Only somebody with disbelief in the tremendous
foxce Of the proetarat and the progress OF the revo
ton deny this
What still keeps tens Of thousands OF workers
away from the Party7 There several reasons for
this To many workers have not yet proved
BY our daily work, by our example that we their
Party, the Party OF the cause Of the emancipation
Of the working class. Many workers still have IL
lusions about the leaders Of the A. F. L., about the
right and left socisl-Democratic leaders yes even
about the bourgeois paTttes-about Roosevelt, about
LaGuards They have not yet convinced themselves
by their own experience that the road of the Com
naunieC Party is the only way out for the workers
an. we have not yet helped them sufficiently and
patiently to overcome their illusions and TO find the
wsy TO US.
Everyone of us. everyone Of the twenty thou
sand Communist members Of the Party has some
connection with some workers, with steel workers,
with miners with auto workers. with unemployed
workers, with workers where live, in clubs,
a. affairs, etc. And everyone of U.s. of the twenty
thousand members knows at least one worker in his
hed of activity, whom he trusts an honest pro-
Ietarian.
If everyone Of Us would during the next
two weeks make an effort to Systematically win
another fellow worker for the Party to patiently
convince him, patiently all his objec-
tions, help him find the way 30 the Party would
this not bring greater to the reyou-
ticnary cause, would not the Party win thou
sands Of fighters, and thus tremendously
strengthen It's organized and organizing influence
the other toiling masses?
The Party can only then really be the leader
OF the working class if every Communist every mem
Der. develops into leader OF the workers IN his
field OF activity Should not everyone of us try to
bring at least one honest worker into the Party?
Yes this requires patience, persistence, energy But
talk about serious preparation for the revolu-
bon without these qualities which the whole Party
and everyone of its members and functonares must
possess?
The Party has started recruiting campaign.
1t is not necessary to hold many inner conferences
meetings and speeches for this campaign. What is
necessary is that every Communast-and we became
Communists because hghters-remembers day
in and day out that future Communist another
honest worker, can tomorrow be a comrade a cour-
sseous fellow fighter, if everyone of us does his duty