The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
by Burck

last February in the All-Union Con-
gress of the Party. 1t has continued
as to application in detail in in
Vulnerable meetings of all sorts of
organizations, unions, ETC., in Party
meetings, in public meetings of
workers at factories, down to the
present, and is continuing. 1t is a
practical discussion, over details of
application in concrete situations,
and has been that ever since the
main line was agreed upon.
Careful Searching of Records
Now in the election campaign, the
first stages consist OF a careful
searching Of the records of all
elected members Of Soviets to see
whether they have understood the
policies, and have carried them out.
Each delegate to each Soviet is
having his record drawn up, in the
first place, by the Soviet itself. If
he has been slc5hful or incapable.
this will show. Particular attention
is paid to whether the delegate has
carried out the detailed instruc-
tons given him by the meetings of
workers and farmers who elected
him, at the time of his election
three years ago, and in meetings
since then.
Each delegate now in the Soviets
will have to face an open meeting
of all those who elected him. In
most parts of the country these
meetings will be in November. Not
only his official record will appear
for or against him, but he will have
to report in full, and face all &C.
cusations that may be made from
the meeting itself.
If it is clear from all this, that
there is some one better than he.
that person will be nominated and
the present incumbent will not be,
or, If nominated, will not be. elected.
The election meeting will give the
newly elected, or reelected dele
gates specific instructions, not only
as to general policy, but in detail
about his work in their vicinity.
The meeting may 60 on record, for
example, for new bathhouse, for
new streets, for improvement of
service in the stores-the delegate
will have to work in the Soviet to
carry out these Instructions, or face
the discipline imposed on him by
the electors, which may go so far
as to recall him even before his term
is ended. The Soviet Union is al
most the only country where elected
officials are actually recalled fer
failure to carry out the will of the
| people.
The best are elected, and the
Communist Party, the ruling Party.
securely in power in a sense that
no capitalist party is ever in power.
intellectually cooperates in the
election of non-party workers. if
they are good material for the
Soviets. This is particularly true
of the lower Sovists. village and
city, where the most direct contact
is made with the people. Rsmem-
Der, the Soviets are not just legis-
latures, but have the executive
j power as we'll. Even in such big
center as Moscow, the capital, the
most important and largest city OF
the country, 826 OF the 2,6o1 men,
bers Of the city Soviet are neither
in the Party nor in the Young Com
munist League. In very small local
Soviets in smaller districts, where
the percentage of Party members
among the population is lower than
in Moscow, non-Party members are
in majority. You are elected, in
the Soviet Union, on the basis OF
your will and ability to do public
| service. your electors instruct you
to carry out the policies they are
all agreed on, and those are in fact
the policies of the Communist Parry
The Party actually tries to draw
non-Party people into this public
work: