The daily worker., 1934-08-23
PARTY LIFE
Centralized Guidance Boosts
Literature Sales by Units
CIeUeIGnd Report ShO,0s Increases Resulting
From Section Direction and Check-up

| 1st) our section was divided into
three parts; We retain five units
with total membership around 10
Old debts in the new section 10 be
collected amounted to $5.32.
In the four months since then
Cto August 1st) s10461 worth Of
literature has been sold, including
an average of 40 Party Organizers
a month, excepting May when
none were issued). During these
four months $15.54 worth of litera-
ture has been sold through eight
different mass organizations, and
the Section itself has sold retail
$3.50 worth.
The Sections debt to the District
of 1924 as of April 1st has been
wiped out completely.
To raise finances for our de-
partment we conducted q contest in
conjunction with the Section picnic,
giving a Is volume set Of the Little
Lenin Library" which netted us
$3.50 clear profit.
AT present after paying off the
$6 loans, and clearing up our Dis.
trict debt, we have accumulated in
six months literature fund of
approximately $50 in cash and lit
erature. We have issued to the
units at the same time a Section
manual giving concrete experiences
in the selling Of literature and Daily
Workers.
In order to make the units Nt-
erature and Daily Worker conscious.
regular letters go to the agents Of
the unit at least once every two
weeks.
Articles from the Daily Worker
are clipped and sent into the units,
Everything in the way of sugges.
tions and other comrades ex.
perenceS are utilized and brought
to the attention Of our units.
There is still lot to be desired,
Only two mass organizations have
literature agents (and that is the
fault of our fractions, not raising
this question in their respective or
ganizations). Very little theoretical
literature is sold, only ten Commu-
nists a month, one Communist In
ternational and two Inpreccors.
Most OF the Party members still
resist the idea that they themselves
must take literature with them
from their unit meeting and bring
it to the workers with whom they
come in contact. All literature
agents have not yet learned to keep
their literature up-to-date by get
ting timely literature. They must
get over the idea that literature Is
new" If it is just off the press. On
special occasions like May l, we
try and get literature dealing with
this Workers Day of Struggle into
the units about April 1st, so that
they have a chance to acquaint the
workers ahead Of time with Just
what May First means.
We are trying to make the units
responsible to cover all mass meet
ings with literature; seeing to it
that all their open air meetings
have literature and that comrades
belonging to A. F. Of L. unions all
ways carry literature with them.
Where the unit buros fail in the
drive to sell more literature is as
follows: Cd they do not have lit
erature on the unit agenda Except
to check up on sales); literature
agents are never called into buro
meetings to plan out sales. (2) Many
unit organizers do not turn over
letters intended for their literature
agents. (3) The unit buros do not
take the initiative TO check up on
their unit territory to find out what
literature is best suited for the
workers living in their neighbor-
hood.
We are sure If the unit buros
would get correct political under
standing as to the role literature
plays in organizing the workers, and
take organizational measures to sell
literature at open air meetings.
mass meetings, house to house can
vassing and carrying literature into
the A. F. Of L. and T. u. q. L.
meetings, the result would be a
tremendous increase in sales. and
growth of our Party. And this
political understanding can be OBJ
tanned by reading our theorical
organs and watching for articles In
the Daily Worker dealing with the
subject,