The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

portsnce TO prove to the workers
that We were organized precisely 70
stop future cases Of death because
Of discrimination IN relief to Negro
workers. To change the name meant
to give in to the ISLANDERS Of the
enemy and would prove us to be in
sincere in the entire struggle around
the case.
Not Sensitive to Issues
But on this question Comrade z.
showed she was not sensitive to the
issues of the workers and had no
faith in their ability to struggle.
She did not believe that the only
way We can build the branch is to
Immediately take up other issues
concerning the workers and develop
struggle around them. It Is her
opinion that the workers must first
be prepared for struggle By being
asked to distribute leaflets and be-
ing urged to attend our city wide
mass meetings, etc. At the last meet
ing of the branch one Of our COM
rades proposed that q protest meet
ing be organized on the case Of the
three boys sentenced to die N
Mississippi on March Is. The en-
tire branch was in favor Of this with
the exception Of the representative
from the district. She believed that
since We were planning a social for
March this would be enough TO
keep us busy, and IF we must have
a mass meeting It should be after
March So She therefore attempted
to sidetrack the question by propos-
ing that the executive committee
decide whether or not to hold the
meetings; but the branch members.
unanimously voted this down and
instead voted to hold the meeting
and the executive committee Is to
make the arrangements for the
meeting.
Also in connection with the build
ing Of the branch on the basis Of
developing struggles around neigh
borhood issues, 1t is necessary that
we have in the leadership of the
branch the most militant workers
who will fearlessly be in the fore
front Of the struggles. However, 1T
the present time the elements being
pushed into the forefront are petty
bourgeois elements who although they
are sincerely in the branch do not
feel the necessity Of struggle as do
other members in the branch who
are proletarians. These petty bour-
geois elements are more capable
acknowledgements how to conduct
a meeting, being versed in Roberts
Rules Of Order. However, it is not
these elements who will be in the
forefront of any struggle. For this
reason it Is much more urgent that
We train raw proletarian elements
in the organizational work rather
than put the branch in the leader
ship of elements who will tend &c
turn the branch into a social organl-
zation.
There are great possibilities for
building this branch into a mass
| OTgd LInAJlDn SLICE IL was CIEcLEtl
in the course of struggle and is now
meeting in q center where other
organizations meet with whom We
have never had contact. also next
door to the church where We con-
Quoted the struggle. However, to
succeed, the problems must be
thoroughly discussed by the Party
members in the branch who must
organize a fraction and agree upon.
the policy to be pursued in the
branch. Until now there have been
many disagreements on the floor Of
branch meetings between the repre-
tentative of the district and the other
Party members in the branch. These
burocratic methods and opportunist
actions nut be fought against and
eliminated, and this can only be
done by the building Of collective
leadership in the branch under the
guidance Of an organized Party
fraction.
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