The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
Party Life
Organizer Relates
Some Experiences
In A Navy Yard

0UR unit would like to write of our
activities in the $4,000 Daily
Worker Drive and the lessons
learned from same Firstly, our
quota was set by the district at
$40. In less than two weeks time,
we collected SIT The drive for
funds for our Daily Worker, was the
best thing that could have happened
to our unit.
The Navy Yard here is pretty well
permeated with stool pigeons, and
also secret service men from the
Department of Intelligence. In
mapping out our methods to raise
the fund, we stressed the Importance
of getting it more from newer
workers, than from known SYM
pathizers of the Party. although we
contacted these too. What I mean
by newer workers is workers our
unit had not contacted before. In
doing this, each comrade used his
own initiative in picking the worker,
and in doing so, brought the face
of the Party right to the front.
The conspiracy of silence of the
capitalist press out here in the
West, in regard to the struggles Of
the workers in the East. and the
struggles of the workers in Spain,
and also the truth about the Soviet
Union, were great weapons in our
hands to get the workers to give to
the fund.
Going over the top of our quota
does not mean that we are through
and We intend to drive for mo-e
funds until the 100000 is raised
and also afterwards. The workers
contacted are kept in mind for the
unit, and are continually given more
literature in the hope of getting
them to support our paper further
by subscribing, and eventually to
come into the Party.
Also, since 1t was election time
our fund drive most naturally dove
tailed into agitating to vote Com
munist. 1t will be interesting to
note how much effect our units
activity, with our shop paper, gate
meetings, and thorough distribu-
ton of election platforms will have
IN the election. In the 1882 cleo
ton our Party polled 48 votes in
this county. We expect many more
than that this year. Our last unit
meeting thorough discussion was
held on developing the political level
OF the Unit. A plan of work was
laid out for the next six months
and at this time I would like to
point out the real urgency, and the
real necessity of planning the units
work. This is the main thing that
VIII help to raise the political level
OF the unit. The drive for the
Daily Worker funds proved that to
us. 1t gives us something to shoot
at and something to strive for
Our plan of work (our first pIan)
was made very low in order that it
would be fulfilled completely, and
also taking experience from other
units who laid out huge tasks, which
they knew they could not fulfill in
the first place, which we believe
puts damper on the plan from the
very first. Our plan is this: Each
comrade to recruit two new mem
bers to the Party; Each com
rade to obtain five subs for the
Daily Worker, and five subs for the
Voice Of Action; 2-To build oppo-
sition groups of seven in four trade
unions CA. F. of ID; ITO have
a mimeograph machine of our own.
This plan is for the next six months.
our plan was made small on pur-
pose, because we are certain of full
filling it, and the main idea is to
see how far over the top we can 60
This is our units first plan of work
and it was thoroughly discussed be-
fore 1t was adopted. The failure
and mistakes of other units that did
not fulfill their plans were also dis
cussed.
One bad mistake our unit has
been making since it started one
year ago has been the failure of our
buro to function, and a lack of
inner Party education and discus
sion. That was discussed a few
meetings ago, and the buro has
functioned for the past two meet
ings, which already showed a 1OC
per cent improvement in discussion
and also in the way the meeting
was run. We expect better work
from our unit now, and also in
lettering ourselves, and hope to be
able to help other units with the
lesson we learn.
We have request to make which
is urgent for us in relation to oul
shop paper. We would like very
much to contact the Party Units
in other Navy Yards, in order tt
compare our work with them anc
theirs with ours.
We expect through the function.
ing of our unit buro and through
our plan of work to be able to write
you more concretely on lessons We
learn in our daily work at later
date. We send our revolutionary
GREETINGS to you all.
United Organizer, Navy Yard.
Bremerton, Washington.
COMRADES in Navy Yards: Will
v you please send your experience.
, in your work to the Org. Commits
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