The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Party Life
Must Speed Election
Campaign Work In All
Sections Of Party
BY ALEX VoROS WRoUGH-,
Ohio State Election Campaig-,
Manager

BY ALEX VOROS WROUGHT,
Ohio State Election CampaiE,
Manager
Hardly three weeks separate us
from election day, Nov. s. Barely
tWenty-one days are at our dis
posal to popularize our election
platform, bring our program to the
widest strata Of the workers through
mass agitation and propaganda, in
fusing every struggle with the Com
munist Election Campaign.
On the basis of our experiences
in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County
as whole few very interesting
conclusions can be drawn in this
respect:
/. Wherever the candidates or
the Party made an organized and
systematic effors to carry on the
campaign, they we're met with
more than ready response on the
part of the workers whom we had
been able to reach before.
2. Most of the sections, units,
mass organizations and even some
leading Party functionaries who are
candidates are tagging behind, and
in some instances have failed to
carry out the most elementary be-
ginnings.
8. Unless this realization that the
Election Campaign must become the
central campaign which unifies all
others permeates the entire Party
unless the entire Party member
ship is both ideologically and polit
ically modified to bring forward
the election campaign in every &C.
tivity-unless the tempo of our sc-
Invites is increased to a pitch that
not only matches but surpasses
those of the capitalist parties in the
coming weeks-we are going to let
this favorable period slip by with
out utilizing it fully.
Recruiting, Finances
Those of our candidates who have
taken the campaign seriously, gave
leadership to it, organized COM
mittee around themselves of nom
Party workers and began working
Systematically are definitely forging
to the head Of the ticket.
Comrade Ye:ta Land. for instance,
candidate for State Attorney Cen
eral, is beginning to gain real mass
support in the Italian Mayfield and
Negro Scovill territory (the tradi-
tional stronghold of the Republican
Party, not to mention other locali-
ties where she is also becoming
more and more known to the
masses through her committees.
The house meetings arranged for
her are increasing both in number
and attendance day by day-so that
it is becoming impossible for her to
cover them all, and other candi-
dates are pressed into service. Out
of these house meetings in one week
she recruited Is workers to the
Party and Y c. L.
Comrade N. D. Davis, attorney to
the Small Home and Landowners,
candidate for County Prosecutor, is
also reaching out to an ever larger
circle of workers. His committees
set up in different neighborhoods
are growing phenomenally. Mem
bers of six of his committees in diff
ferent localities now total over AS,
To illustrate the work of his COM
mittees, one of them arranged
street meeting in a neighborhood
not previously invaded by us. Leaf
lets were distributed, not by stick
ing them under the door or throw
ing them on the porch, but by giving
them into the hands of the workers.
From three streets 200 people came
to the rect meeting.
Although Davis committees were
organized mostly in the past two
weeks, they collected and turned in
over $40, with the majority of
collection lists still out. And here
we can state definitely that The
raising of finances for the election
campaign-just as for all other
Party campaigns-is always an in
dication of the political activity
developed.
Through these and other house
NEE -ingS we are constantly Secur-
ing new shop contacts and drawing
in new elements. A worker of the
Mckinney Corrigan concentration
steel factory happened to drop in by
chance to one of these meetings
and asked for a collection list to
circularize in his shop. To use an
other illustra ion, five Negro
preachers in our different commit
tees have put their pulpits at the
disposal of our candidates and are
even arranging house meetings for
them.
In contrast to the above the
Party as a whole is still content
with the most formal approach to
the election campaign.
House meetings, street meetings
and even mass meetings are held
by the candidates and their COM
mlttees without the units and Sec
tons participating in them. In
consequence thereof nei her Party
recruiting nor the sale of the Daily
Worker are pushed sufficiently
neither are the excellent shop con-
facts utilized. Since a candidate
can only spend ten or fifteen min
utes at the mos at one house
meeting, and since most of the
workers on the committee are nom
Party, in the absence of Party
members there is nobody to engage
the workers in conversation, do the
recruiting and see that the Daily
Worker is sold at the meeting,
Votes and Results
The recruiting and the sale of
the Daily Worker is still our weak
est point, owing to the neglect of
the Sections and Units. A sharp
turn must be made Immediately in
this respect. We must emphasize