The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-14
Textile Strike Emphasizes
Urgent Need Of Recruiting
For the Communist Party

I the Party is weak in the textile
center. A prerequisite for the con-
cretizati0n of our aim in the strike
is the strengthening Of the Party
position among the masses, which
means that the ranks Of the Party
in all textile centers must be swelled
by new forces. At this moment,
there are no difficulties in making
personal contact with the workers.
The Party is there in the midst of
the masses; the Party is on the
battle front. The textile WORKERS
show through tfSir militancy,
through their determination to win
this battle that they can readily
understand the role Of our Party and
can see that our Party is the only
Party which stands for their de-
mands and that cur Party members
are constantly on the picket lines
with the textile strikers in the
forefront of all the struggles.
Play More Decisive Role
Shall we fear to bring into our
ranks workers that show such mil
itancy as in the battles of the
South, Fall River, Rhode Island,
Lancaster, ETC.? 1t is precisely these
elements that will strengthen our
Party in the textile cente.s, that
will build our Party into a mass
Party rooted in the mills, and will
be able more strongly to influence
the membership of the United Tex
tile Workers Union to take control
of the union into their own hands,
against the bureaucrats and for
militant policy of struggle. Then,
our Party will play a more decisive
role in the struggles of the textile
workers.
At this moment, every district,
and especially the textile districts,
must make a decisive turn in their
methods of recruitment. In every
district, especially in the textile dis
trictS, special functionaries, unit
and fraction meetings shall be call
ed to discuss the problems of re-
cruiting and fluctuation so that
each individual Party member shall
understand that one of his main
tasks now, while active in the vari-
Gus campaigns and in the strikes
going on, is to convince the workers
Of the correctness of the position of
the Party, and that they belong in
the ranks of the vanguard of the
American working class - in the
ranks OF the Communist Party.
Strikers Must Be Won Over
If, in the textile center, we would
succeed in making each individual
Party member, textile worker or
non-textile worker now involved in
the strike conscious of the impor-
tance Of recruiting one or two of
the strikers, primarily, as well as
other workers involved in this
struggle, then we would be able in
a very short time to more than
double cur membership, and par
ticuiarly at this time, strengthen
tremendously the position of the
Party among the striking masses.
One of the prerequisites for
achieving this aim is to destroy the
superiority complex of some of our
comrades, who have fixed doubt as
to fitness of militant workers to be
ripe enough for the Party, ETC., and
believe themselves to be above the
rest of the prOletariat.
Into tn rank of our felIow-work
ers! Into the front ranks of the
picket lines! Bring forward the DO
sition of the Party in this strike
through meetings, individual con-
versatiOn, and show by our example
the only road to victory.
Hundreds of textile workers should
swell the ranks Of the Communist
Party! This will become one of the
best guarantees for the building of
one solid union, able to withstand
the attacks of the bosses and the
government, and the betrayal of the
reformist bureaucrats.