The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-18
Problems of Party Growth

the 1 D 81 RE 9 ioDo y b p e g 5s S
registered membership with actual
past powerful
10000 while
did not exceed 10000 dues paying members This the at dsnfs
time the constant tremendous Sharply exposes the inability
the Party to maintain its u gains This situation is greatly acSenated
5000 those members prior 1890 the Party today
unemployed complete
of the membership employed industrial enterprises
Seventh had approximately 200 Negro
with half of this number in Chicago definite but most Dis
Negroes Party proportion
Negroes much greater than other sections recruited into the
Party
The Special recruiting drives RE replacing the daily
OF the main factors causing the huogaton The recruiting drives Il the
to internal drectyes on how to through the recruiting drive with
no mass appeal TO the workers TO- ION the Party The ns
particular situation factories
present problem
fundamental change the units the
to the Z serious qctuaGn The asoysS OF the 18th
cations directly the the
to-day 70 uh this task the Party units must be sy trsnsforgd
to the needs Of the WORKERS discussing their grievances and how the unit
s Hs0 sa ssa f broad ppean Sa
m our Party units involving the en b m9mbfFshp m the
responsibility them out instead the
arbitrary ASSIGNMENT of work which stiles the initiative Of the units
The PREVAILING situation in many o h Party
replaced the democratic elections of the leadership
Which in reality are tasks the various "a around
requires proper
organizations around their specific tasks The Party merbe IN
Party Thus the units cannot underestimate the
guide their coordinate activities -
level Ta ae pa a no y the soD members S @ n
IN g s a pe Gs T ~ n 81 s asf d aaS as f
@ Of the entire hip careful m d IN IN
the higher committees developing these members step by step into
new members are undged Communists as soon as they enter the
away environment
p aa M Ps d not fs Wasa isa
part Of the units the causes which lead to members out but
units should carefully follow all workers who have left the Party
workers from na our y ranks VIC causes " nave
Eight years after the historic decision Of the com to transfer the
base of the Party to the shops after nnumeb decisions
and documents of Party this question register
that nuclei this
in factories but in the main to the lack Of day day guidance Of the
ship supervise the of the aid them developing
msfh n mm nsse and we
lions. complete pasiyity of many shop units.
campaigns units developed many
sugges IN tne 8 aIou tne grievances Of the Unemployed
in the neignboho0ds and particularly for broader political issues Thu
tong masses in the neghbo0ds and towns Furthermore street
Of s1 members a N the shop and through % on
Party leadership
constantly
unit fmctonare (b) committees
initiative the organizations;
drawn into the activities in the neighbohood and shop
feminist conception Organizer
Party worke must be similar social democratic responsible
funconary
among the masses in the factory in the shop in the mine qt
Penum of the E G.. C.
that arisen struggles textiles,
UNEMPLOYED struggles etc., who have intimate contact with the
Seventh Party not been
sufficiently enlarged by the drawing of proetaan elements
leadership while participating
the local struggles did not arise and out of these struggles but
most consist outside AT the time
the sections and districts not connected with the decisive sections
the full
who have been divorced from the masses Of workers factories in which
the The c. which TO-DAY
W nconares faces the task at the coming convention Of drawing
in fresh proletaran forces from the factories
struggles of the employed
netates
resing
aid to these to avoid
the establishment district
the systematic selection students
prU nfratinn frtNra tioc