The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
PARTY LIFE
District 3 PIenunn Reports
ShOw Success IN Factories
Serious Shortcomings Still Hamper Carrying Out
the Line of the Open Letter

over a great number Of employ
s,cr.,ars in shops. n
The most outstanding achieve
ment can be registered In connees
ton wish the Daily Worker, raiss
ing the circulation from 600 10
LOCO in the city Of Philadelphia
and the Saturday edition to 1,5Oo.
The financial drive was successful
for the FIRST time, raising $500 over
our quota, $500 altogether.
In order to make these experiences
the property of the whole Party, tbs
District Committee urges the ce n-
rades who were involved in thesss
mass activities of the Party to ots-
cuss them in detail in the Daily
Worker, 10 bring forward the methods
used, the weaknesses and the results.
What Are the Main Weaknesses
of Our Work?
Alongside of the above mentioned
achievements, we have still greater
weaknesses.
First: The failure TO apply the
open letter seriously in connection
with concentration in reaching the
basic sections of the American work.
ing class, the failure to build shop
nuclei and publishing shop papers.
even where such possibilities exist,
-even though a few shop nuclei were
organized in large and decisive
Bethlehem Steel, r. G. A.
Philadelphia dock, silk, hosiery, hnos
leum and others. Lack Of attention
to basic Party organizations and lack
of systematic development OF cadress
Second: The failure to carry olSs
a consistent policy Of concentration
a Kensington, Allentown and BuddSb
HeSitancy, capttulation, failure %
build the Party In Allentown, works
ing too openly in Budds. permitting
the union to be smashed, the A. F. Of
L. to enter and lack Of attention 10
the strike; isolation OF the Party
in the Hellwig strike in KenSingto@
and lack OF attention en- the part Of
the District Buro, letting the section
drift without leadership.
Thirdly: insufficient development
Of trade union consciousness in the
Party as well as in the mass organic
cations, especially the failure to buil6
the S.M.WI.U. as q necessary pre-
requisite to reach the decisive masses
in the basic industries, white ard
Negro. (Nfidvale Steel, Navy Yard,
DisSton, Arsenal, General Electric.)
F'ourthly: The complete RbSencS
Of unemployed movement In Reading
and Allentown, as well as in Baltic
more and decline OF the movement
in Philadelphia. Failure to develop
struggles for jobs on the CW.A-: exc
posure Of the P.WA., the A.A.A. and
the failure to develop the broadcast
possible united front around the issue
Of social and unemployment insure
ance.
Insufficient attention 70 the Y.C.L,
and proletarian women, neglect Of
children's movement.
Main Tasks Until the ConventtOn
First: Draw the Party into ma
work.-The establishment Of an j,
2. of L. opposition center; new cor
facts in the A. F. Of L. and indie
pendent union; mass recruiting fo'
Party and mass organizations on the
basis Of shop and unemployed work
Shop nuclei to be established
wherever the possibilities exist.
Publishing of q shop paper wner-
ever a shop nucleus exists.
Functioning 5ection apparatus -
be established in KenSington.
Registration Of party membershs~
to be concluded within one week.
Campaign against war and fascis
to be intensified, especially in co.'s
nection with National Defense week
demonstrations, leaflets, stickers, In
door and outdoor meetings, postal
cards to the congressman, etc).
Establishment Of an apparatus 70
carry on work in event Of illegaliza-
ton Of Party.
Chenk up to be made on the plan
worked out on the basis Of the Open
Letter.
Completing the quota Of 400 new
members for the Party for the re-
crliting campaign.
Further tasks to be worked out
in district resolution on the basis
of the resolution of the &C. to be
published not later than Feb. "a.