The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-11
Party Life
District Nineteen
Makes a Review
Of Its Past Work

A District plenum, stteded by Dis
n trict Committee members and
active Party members in the basic
industries and leading trade unions
and mass organizations of District
10, was held in Denver during the
past week to review the work of
the Party in District 10 in regard
to the carrying out of the tasks
laid down in the resolution adopted
at the District convention last
March.
The analysis of the work of the
Party during this period showed
considerable shortcomings in spite
Of the gains that have been made.
The major shortcomings were found
to be due to organizational weak
nesses, so the slogan, "Strengthne
the Organizational Front" became
the slogan of the Plenum, and was
the basis for the various proposals
worked cut by commissions on
trade union work, unemployed work,
organizational, agit-prop and agra
rian.
The Plenum disclosed that the
f1uctuation in District 10 was bad
during this period. The average
dues payments at the time of the
district convention in March was
approximately 500, and at the pres
ent time the average dues paying
membership of the district is $50
yet during the period from April
to November l, total of Asst new
members have been recruited.
OF the Asst new members re-
cruited, 81 have been recruited from
the A. F. of L., "a of these being
miners in the U.M.W.A. Approx
mately the same amount have been
recruited from the NMU.; but
aside from mining, which is the ma
jor concentration work of two Sec
tons, very little work has been
done toward turning the face of
the Party to the trade unions. Par
ticularly Denver and Salt Lake Sec
tons have been weak in carrying
on planned opposition work within
the A. F. of L. Some progress has
been made in both of these sections,
but it has been done by various
individuals in more or less hap
hazard manner.
A District Trade Union Depart
ment was established at the plenum
to coordinate the trade union work
on district scale, and all sections
are to establish such a department
at once. The first task of the sec
ton trade union departments will
be to check up on each member
eligible to join trade union.
The trade union commission
worked out a plan of colonization
for the Northern and Southern
Colorado coal fields. This plan calls
for a conference in Denver of I'M
employed miners who are Party
members or Party Sympathizers to
make assignments of these COM
rades to the coal fields to rustic"
| for jobs.
| The four concentration points in
District 10 are in mining, agricuI-
ture, trade union and r. r., and
unemployed. Particularly in agri-
culture the objective conditions in
the District were never better to
build broad movement among the
doubly exploited agricultural work.
els, particularly the Spanish speak
ing beet laborers. In this connec-
ton definite plans were worked out
by the Agrarian Commission to lay
a basis for real progress in this
phase of Party activity this coming
spring.
Considerable stress was laid on
the necessity of a general tighten
ing up of the Party apparatus, de-
veloping of initiative in the lower
organs of the Party and a close
check-up on fraction work, as we'll
as strengthening and building the
mass organizations, and the devel-
opment of educational work.
G. l., Dist, 10.