The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-20

CTuitQg plan OF li1e OlSJIlCt COll-
lnittee. where it was very sharply
pointed out that the present Party
recruiting drive must be very inti-
natcly linked up with the basic con-
centration work and tasks of the
Party. The figure for the last month
show nine marine workers and ten
transport workers recruited. This is
insufficient. The Party Sections and
Fractions OF the unions in these in
Gustries must clearly realize that the
question of recruiting into the Party
from these industries is a decisive
question for our ability to develop
mass economic organizations and for
leadership of strike struggles. Every
section and every fraction in the
Unions and mass organizations en-
bracing workers in the decisive and
concentration industries have the
special task of carrying on real con-
centrated recruiting activity among
these sections of workers,
Failures in Strike Fields.
This months figures also indicate
that in the fields where we have led
great mass struggles and where
strikes are even now in progress un-
Ger our leadership, our recruiting is
elmost negligible. After leading 1900
TO 5000 metal workers in strike, only
20 metal wctkerS were recruited for
cur Party. The same situation is
found in the Needle Trades, where
following the broadcast strike move
nent among the Needle Workers in
years, in which tens Of thousands OF
workers were involved. only 81 work
srs we're recruited.
Recruiting Negro Workers.
Ore of the chief lessons to be
drawn from the result Of this months
recruiting in our District is the fact
that the Party membership is still
quite far from grasping politically the
burning need Of recruiting Negro
workers. The whole Party member
nip should be reused by the fact
that only Is Negroes, four per cent of
the total OF 237 new members, have
been recruited. This inpermissibly
snail Number Of Negro recruits is an
indication that the Party does not
ys5 fully appreciate the tremendous
importance of work and the enormous
possibilities for mass recruiting of
Negro workers into our Party. A real
Bolshevil5 test OF our Party in the
resent recruiting drive will be the
billty with which We penetrate the
Negro masses and recruit them into
he Party On the basis of systematic
md persistent propaganda and
leadership Ct struggles for Negro
rights.
Need Working Women,
Another important lesson to be
drawn from our recruiting expert
ences is the fact that only II per
cent OF the total recruited consist of
TcInen, and cf the so women re-
eruited, IS are housewives. This is a
reflection Ct the weakness OF our
work among working women. This
figure should serve to focus the at
tention Of the Party membership on
the great need for concentrating on
bringing more women workers from
the shops and trade unions into the
Party
The toJsI O. 3o7 recruited during
he lass month, in the period Of a
.peeial recruiting drive cannot and
should not satisfy the District Com
nlittc,- the slct,cae, the fractions, OF
any Perty member This figure is
even below the normal number Of
workers which should be recruited in
the day to dry work of the Party.
This figure Csr2ot be the result of a
special recrr ing drive to which
proper political and organigatioral
attention IS devoted by the entire
Iartv membership. In this period,
Vacn the Party mas led over 10000
Ncraerc On strike. when or trade