The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Build English Speaking Group,
Present Task Facing the TWO

this period. Of course, the solu-
ton is not in the letting up Of
recruiting Jewish and Hungarian
and an other foreign-born workers.
The solution is to take in Amer
lean workers as well as foreign
born. The solution is a little ad-
dition to our recruiting activities.
Our foreign-born members con-
fine their recruiting activities to
their neighbors, their fellow men,
bers in the organizations they be-
long to, and to relatives and
friends. Since they usually move
in the comparatively narrow circles
of workers of their own nationality,
they have little chance to reach the
native American workers.
This can be changed if our mem
bers orientate to the shop. In the
shop they meet their native Amer
lean class brother alongside of their
foreign-born class brother. They
need not let up at all in their re-
cruiting among their neighbors and
friends. All they have to do is to
add to these activities a little re-
cruiting in the shop. On the way
to the shop, on the way from the
shop, as well as at lunch time, the
workers discuss among themselves
their problems, their thoughts, their
needs. All we must do is raise in
these discussions the problems of
proletarian fraternalisn. We have
countless opportunities to speak to
the American workers there. We
have numberless subjects supplied
by our common problem in the shop.
Every one of these problems can
become the base for propagan-
dizing our native born fellow work.
ers, as well as all of our fellow
workers in the shop, about the 1.
w. o.
The National Executive Commit
tee has decided to extend the
period for the special campaign to
build our English Section from the
months of March and April over to
May and June. All branches of the
Order should discuss at once this
problem of building the English
speaking section. They should
stimulate the efforts of all of our
members to approach native Amer
lean workers and to bring them
into the Order.
Organize Negro Workers
When we carry through such a
concentration, we cannot help but
see the need of winning the Negro
masses for our Order and of build
ing the Youth Section. After all,
the division of the workers into Ne
gro and white, into adult and youth,
is a capitalist policy. For us there
is no such division. We see the
working class as a whole and surely
the Negroes and the young work
ers are an integral part of the
working class.
Of course the capitalist policy of
dividing the workers into Negro
and white, into adult and youth,
into foreign born and native born,
creates political differences in the
problems of the Negro, the youth,
the foreign born, etc. We must see
these differences. We must meet
them by different approaches, pro-
posals and activity. But we make
no difference in the need of ap-
preaching any and all these Sec
lions of the workers.
If we recognize this and orientate
our efforts accordingly, we can build
the American membership of our
Order into the basic, predominant
section. In doing this we will natur-
ally be directed toward the winning
of masses of Negroes as well as
masses of youth into our Order.
Let us tackle this problem seri-
ously. Let us win a minimum OF
100 American workers per week
into the ranks of our Order in the
coming months.