The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-21
Party Life
District Sixteen
Presents Six Weeks
Plan of Activity

VI GIle JOpdCCO WOThSTS anu a ldIS t
part of the workers of the furniture
workers are in this district. In ad-
dition, the district includes large
agricultural sections, with thou
sands Of share troopers living in a
condition of actual peonage. Much
of this territory is in the Black
Belt, where the Negro masses are
subjected to the most brutal eX-
ploitation and to the lynch law of
the landlords.
Our Party in this district is ex-
tremely weak in numbers, in or
ganization and political develop
ment, even though the Party can
record active participation in the
recent textile strike and other
struggles and is hated and feared
by the capitalists and landlords.
Most of our members have joined
the Party during the past three or
four months. With the exception Of
the Danville Section we have not
yet established functioning Section
Committees, and from the District
Committee down to the units there
must be an immediate tightening
up of the entire apparatus. Unit
meetings, dues payments, literature
sales, all are very irregular.
The Young Communist League,
which did not exist at all three
months ago in the district, is still
extremely weak and only in Dan
vile does the Y. C. L. hold regular
weekly meetings. There is a ire
mendous underestimation of the
Importance of the Y. c. L. on the
part of the Party and we have yet
to overcome the idea that the
Y. c. L. is for the less serious"
young workers. There is no Pho
neer organization in the district.
These tasks facing us, in the light
of the situation of the district, calls
for immediate and energetic steps.
These must be of concrete and
definite nature. Above all the deci-
SionS of the District Committee
must not remain on paper. There
must be a day to dag check up on
the carrying out OF the decisions by
the District Leadership. Every
member of the District Committee
must see they are carried out in his
locality. And every Party member
must share responsibility for full
| fillment of these tasks.
The District Committee of Dis
trict Is adopts a plan of work to
be carried out between November
Is and January l, which includes
the following general perspectives:
a. District to increase its mem
bership from approximately 100 at
present to 200 by January l, and
to recruit at least Is members for
the Young Communist League.
b. District to organize four new
shop units and three new street
units during the six weeks period.
g To have a PAID circulation of
the Daily Worker of 200 copies
daily.
d. One comrade in every unit to
be assigned to work with the Y. G.
L. and steps taken to build Y. c.
l.. unit where there is a Party unit.
The following steps are being
taken for study and educational
work.
a. Forty-five minutes of every
unit meeting to be devoted to study
period, based on outlines furnished
by the District.
b. Every unit to have a library
of literature for circulation among
the membership.
g Correspondence classes for
leading comrades to be conducted
by the district.
d. Weekly open forums to be es-
tablished by the Charlotte Section
and in other sections where it is
practical
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