The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-19
PARTY LIFE
Organization Of Election
Committees Aids Campaign
Defeatist attitude TOt0Grd Having Communists
Elected Scored by Ohio Election Manager

In organizing these committees the
greatest use is made of the personal
following of the candidate to draw
in active persons who are willing
to support and work for that par
ticular candidate even if they do not
accept the full program Of the Com
munist Party but have confidence
in the honesty and sincerity of that
particular candidate towards the
working class. These committees are
building broad groups around them
In various territories, drawing 40
more active people into the coma
mittee, building our machinery.
New Paths to the Shops
In organizing these committees
we found that we were able to draw
workers from concentration shops,
from the A. F. of L. and other
unions where we were long trying
to get contact but were unable to
secure them and who, properly util-
lied, can become instrumental IN
building our revolutionary unions
and the opposition in the A. F. Of
L. and reformist unions.
To explain the organization Of
these committees, let us take tbs
example of Comrade Yetta Land
again.
A week ago Friday, number Of
italian workers whom she knew
person ally, were approached
by Comrade Land and called to
meeting. Ten of them responded,
eight of them non-Party), two
from the South Side, eight from the
Mayf1eld Territory. These ten or
ganized a comittee of IS in less
than week in Mayf1eld and about
twenty-five on the South Side.
House meetings were called by these
committees, reaching over two hun
dred workers who enthusiastically
responded to support Comrade Yetta
Land and the Communist Party in
the coming elections. In these house
meetings the committees were fur
ther enlarged from the most active
elements who pledged to carry on
active mobilization, raise fin-
ances, organize additional house,
meetings and arrange a big mass
meeting for Sept. al and ~.
To some of these house meetings
so many people came from the
neighborhoods that not only the
house, but even the yard was
jammed mostly with people who
now for the first time heard the
Communist program.
The organization of other groups
is ismilarly done. Although this
was started little over two weeks
ago, some of our candidates are al
ready reporting committees as high
as fifty or more around them.
The Role and Utilization of House
Meetings
House meetings to be successful
should be organized two, three or
four for the same evening in blocks
neighboring each other so the cam
didate can attend and address all
of them in one evening. The neigh
borS have to be visited and invited
over by explaining to them that
such and such candidate is visit
ing that particular family at such
and such time and everybody is
welcome.
At this house meeting the candi-
date has chance to deliver an in
formal talk of about ten minutes
and answer all questions. 1t was
found that the intimate relationship
thus set up between the candidates
and the workers brings the work.
ers far closer to us than the tradi~
tional method of formal speech
making. Great care must be taken
that the unit members also attend
these house meetings to sell litera-
ture and recruit for the Party, or
other mass organizations.
The first week we initiated this,
twelve new party members and two
Y. G. L. members were recruited,
splendid material for the Party. AS
result, a socialist competition has
been started between the candi-
dates as to who will recruit the most
party members by Sept. 80. The or
ganization of the house meetings is
also on socialist competition basis
who will bring the most people.