The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Central Committee Let
ter Is Discussed by
All the Units

CECTION /, District 2, has very
y seriously discussed the party re-
cruiting drive, and has worked out
a plan for the drive which it is ex-
pected will greatly increase the re-
cruiting activities of the Section.
When the letter of the Central
Committee was sent to the MEM
bers of the Section, it was accom-
panied by an application card with
the slogan that no Party member
will be considered in good standing
unless he will be able to return the
card signed by an applicant.
The units are discussing the Cen
trail Committee letter, and holding
open unit meetings, to which non
Party members are invited.
The Section Committee has taken
steps to mobilize effectively the
Party members in mass organiza-
tions into the Party. Leading Party
members of trade unions and other
mass organizations in the Section
are being called in for special con-
sultation with the Section Bureau
to discuss with them the prospects
and methods of recruiting, and
check up on their activities.
Special meetings of Party mem
bers Of various nationalities have
been called in to take up the best
methods of penetrating more deeply
into the ranks of the proletarian
masses in the Section, who speak
these languages.
MEASURES have been adopted to
III enable the Section to check up
and control the recruiting cam
paign from week to week. Every
letter sent to the units raises some
problem Of recruiting. At meetings
of unit organizers in the Section,
recruiting is placed on the Agenda.
The membership committee of the
Section has prepared chart on re-
cruit.ng by the units, and will no.
tify the individual units on their
progress, checking up on their
work, their difficulties, and advising
them how to strengthen their re-
cruiting activities. The recruiting
drive will be on the agenda of ev-
cry meeting Of the Organizational
Department of the Section until
the end of the recruiting drive on
Jan. 81, 1885.
Special care is being taken to re-
tain the new members. Besides in
diVidual instructions to the units
on the mechanics of recruiting, the
Membership Committee of the Sec
ton will take up once q week with
the individual financial secretaries
of the units as to what happened to
the members assigned to their
units. Furthermore, the Section
Committee has made a decision to
call in once month all new Party
members recruited and assigned to
the units during the previous
month, at which meeting leading
Party member from the Section will
discuss with them their impressions
Of the Party, the work they have
been given, their difficulties, etc.
During the first week of the Re-
oruiting Drive, % members were
recruited. The average recruited
before was much lower.
THIS is a brief summary Of some
4 of the proposals adopted and
now being carried out by Section l,
in the New York District. What
about the other sections in District
2? And sections in Pittsburgh,
Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit - the
concentration districts Of the Party?
What plans have you made to car
ry out the letter of the c. c.? How
do you propose to intensity your re-
cruiting Of miners, steel and metal
workers, auto workers, railroad
workers, clearinghouse workers,
marine workers. What methods are
you utilizing to bring militant
workers from the A. F.. of L. into
our Party so as TO develop a strong
corps within the unions to unite
the workers around the program for
rank and file control and militant
struggle for the workers interests?
What steps are the shop nuclei tax
ing to root themselves more firmly
In the mines, mills and factories
during this recruiting drive?