The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13
PARTY LIFE
895 NeuU Members Join Party
In 5 Concentration Districts
Results Of Communist Party Recruiting DriVe
Since Beginning of December analysed

TIE OulOIlS 10 "A. F. VI LIZ AluuS"
trial Union, from the recruits Of
the concentration. Only'four Negro
members were recruited from the
concentration industries. Fifty per
cent Of the new recruits are native
born. These weaknesses in the recru-
iting will have to be improved in the
next period.
Detroit District
District Tn the whole month Of
recruited in the whole district. This
number does not reach even the
average recruiting of the district,
which shows that the drive has not
yet begun in Detroit. From Detroit
we have only 80 new members anal
yzed as to the composition. Out OF
these SO only 10 are automobile
workers and only two of these 10 are
employed. Let us assume that the "a
new members about whom we have
no information as to the composition
have among them the same percen-
tage of automobile workers as the
analysed figure. That would mean
that we recruited in the whole month
of December in Detroit, with popu-
lation primarily employed in the
auto industry, only one third Q7-
49, of the new recruits from this
concentration industry. The District
Bureau in Detroit must Every seriously
discuss this problem and take steps
to change this entirely unsatisfac-
tory situation. a-s.
Chicago District
District recruited only 1853 menu
bers in five weeks. In the whole
year of 1888, we find only three
months in which the recruiting Is
lower than in December. The Dis
trict recruited an average OF TIA
members in II months Of 1898. 1t
is very difficult to explain that in
December we did not succeed in
reaching even this figure especially
when we consider the increased
activity of the Party in the various
struggles in the Chicago District.
Out of these 1853 members, only 20
come from concentration industries,
only 8 of these are employed. Not
one railroad worker was recruited In
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the Packinghouse Industry, which Is
one Of the main concentrations in the
district, we could recruit only two I'M
new members.
Not a single Negro worker was
recruited from the concentration In
dustries in Chicago District. 10 new
members recruited from the concen-
tration industries belong to the A.
F. Of L., or Independent unions and
four to the Industrial Unions which
comparatively is a high figure but,
the strength Of the A. F.
Of L., and Progressive independent
unions of America in the Chicago
it is entirely unsatisfactory.
We recruited during the month of
December in the whole Party, 21O4
members which is an. increase Of
about Is per cent over the previous
Not considering the con-
centration districts, the best districts
Seattle and Minnesota, California
which shows a decline in December in
recruiting still has relatively high
figure, 374. The recruiting Is very
small in Districts l, 3, 4, Is, Is. In
another article we win deal with the
of the new members in
these districts. he.
Hand In hand With the problem Of
goes the problem Of fiuc-
tuation. Unless we find the solution
for this problem our Party will not
grow. We lost thousands OF members
because of the insufficient attention
given from the higher Committees to
the Units.
The Polburo has considered the
problems Of extending the recruiting
drive until the coming convention
We suggest that a revolutionary COM
petition should start between the
districts as to which
one will get more new members from
the concentration industries into the
Party, which one will succeed to
build more shop nuclei, or strengthen
the old ones, which one will bring in
more A. F. Of L. and other Union
members into the Party. Chicago,
Cleveland and Pittsburg should COM
pete on steel and mining. New York,
Philadelphia, California, Seattle, Bos-
ton on lonShoremen. District IA, l,
3 and Is on textile. ELL
Send in your challenge to the Party
Life Column. Every individual Party
member should feel that he is res
ponsible for winning large numbers
Of workers into the Party.