The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-10
Party Life
Recruiting Drive
Must Be Spurred
In District 2

A CHECK-UP on the first five
n weeks Of the recruiting drive
initiated by the District Committee
beginning with the week of Octo-
Der 23rd and ending in the week
of January 21st, at Lenin Memorial
Meeting), shows that the drive has
not been sufficiently developed and
Is at present in a very weak stage.
Only one section has reached rs
per cent of its five week quota and
that is Section 4, which was the
leading section in recruiting previ-
Gus to the inauguration of the
drive. Only two sections have full
filled more than so per cent of the
assigned quotas. These are Section
and 81 per cent and Section 7
with so per cent.
The total number of assigned new
members for the five weeks is not
higher than the average recruiting
in the District previous to the
drive. Some of our largest and
strongest sections lag seriously be-
hind in this drive. Section l has
reached only % per cent of its
quota and Section 2 only 90 per
cent. Section Is, which began the
drive with a bang is losing ground
from week to week and now has
only reached 40 per cent Of its
quota.
If we are to attain the task set
ourselves at the beginning of the
recruiting drive, to have 10000 dues
paying members by the end of the
drive, vigorous attempt must be
undertaken by the sections to in
crease the recruiting in the units
and fractions on the basis of the
Central Committee letter to each
Party member and the directives of
the District Org. Department.
Each section is, within one weeks
time, to bring in report on what
they are doing to develop an ener-
getic campaign, what steps will be
taken by the sections to mobilize
the fractions in the mass organiza-
tions, etc. Those fractions that
have made any attempt to recruit
show the great value for the Party
in recruiting in the mass organi-
Zation. An analysis of the recruit
ing of new members by the Two.
fraction shows that the bulk of
them are workers in important
shops with more than so per cent
of them in the A. F. of L. unions
and that they can strengthen our
work within the A. F. of L. in the
shops.
While we lay great stress on the
proper guidance in this drive by
the section committees, unit buros
and fraction buros, the individual
activity of each Party member re-
mains the basic guarantee for a
successful result in the campaign.
We call upon every Party member
to see to it that in his organiza-
ton the recruiting drive is dis
cussed and the proper action taken
in line with the Central Committee
letter. The same is to be pushed
in each unit and responsibility de-
manded from the higher Party COM
mittees for the proper tempo in the
campaign.
ORG. COMMISSION, Dist. 2.
Cab Drivers Take Steps
THE leading fraction in the Taxi
cab Drivers Union has taken
immediate steps for an intensified
drive to win over the thousands of
taxi drivers who have shown by
their militant fight in the last two
general strikes that they can be
won for the Communist Party and
become a factor in defeating the
efforts of Hearst and American I'M
perialism in their attack upon the
Party.
The leading fraction has decided
to double the Party membership in
the Taxi industry by January 21st.
An intensified campaign is to be
carried out by the leading fraction
and the shop nuclei through shop
papers in the garages and on the
hacklines; an open fraction meet
ing arranged by the leading frac-
ton and open shop nuclei meetings
acquainting taxi drivers with the
role of the Communist Party in the
struggle of the taxi drivers for the
realization of their Nine Point pro-
gram.
The slogan of the fraction in
this recruiting drive is: Every
member of the fraction must re-
cruit a taxi driver in the garage
or on the hackline into the Party
by January 21st as our tribute to
the memory of Comrade Lenin."
LEADING FRACTION, N. Y.