The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
By MAX YOUNG

OU the fourth OF February the
New Jersey district had a plenum.
The tasks Of this plenum were to dis
cuss the decisions of the 18th plenum
Of the Comintern, results Of the 18th
plenum Of the Central Committee,
and to lay down the tasks of how to
prepare the organization for district
and national conventions.
The New Jersey district has made
some hea1way with regard to shop
work. There is an increase in
recruitment into the Party for the
months of November, December and
January. The district recruited 200
members in these three months. The
previous three months showed recruit
ment Of only ninety members.
The composition Of this latest
recruiting period is much better be-
cause more workers from basic shops
and direct from the struggle were
taken in. But the requirement is
uneven between sections; Hudson
County out of the 200, recruiting 100
AT the same time in the Paterson sec
ton, where the struggles were real
sharp and are still intensive after the
strike, the recruitment is very low.
! There are attempts to organize the
struggle against injunctions. There is
a more conscious feeling of the neces-
sity to carry on the mass work of the
Party. and a good proportion Of en-
Itirely new elements, who are Develop
ing into leadership directly from the
shops, were present at the Plenum.
These comrades contributed great
deal to the discussion with regard to
improvement OF the work and the
carrying out of the open letter.
The section organizer in Tren-
ton, in analyzing the shortcomings of
the Party, said:
Eve are agitating lot, but we
don't explain the Party line to the
workers. Therefore lot of things
we are doing do not remain for
long time, because we are building
it on very weak foundation"
This is absolutely true, because if
we will take the uneven development
of mass work between the sections in
New Jersey, then it will be clear that
in the sections where the Party
consciously, boldly and openly.
brought before the workers the pro-
gram of the Party tried to educate
the workers in the struggle for the
Party line, we see much more results
than in other sections where the com
radeS tried to work from hand to
mouth"-only for today.
The Party line is not blueprint as
many comrades understand it. Some
how there is feeling that if we
adopted q resolution or made good
proposals, that we have already the
correct approach and that this in
itself is guarantee for carrying out
good work. This is wrong.
The Abstract Speeches Do not I'm.
prove the Work
Practise in New Jersey shows
that abstract speeches and resolutions
are not able to improve the work of
the Party by themselves.
The weakest work in New Jersey Is
the trade union work and the I'M
employed work And there is quite a
bit Of confusion with regard to the
work in the A. F. of L. unions.
In Paterson there are cases, one
of them being an outstanding case
where in a shop of 200 workers, 1876
belonged to the A F. OF L. union, and
the other four to the industrial union
These four loyal, really devoted
workers are struggling for the posi-
ton of the Industrial union, spend
ing a good bit of energy and trying
their best without any resolutions to
win the others for the program OF
the revolutionary union. But shall
/ the leadership permit this, or shall the
leadership tell these workers to Join
together with the others who are al
ready in the A. F.. Of L. in a struggle
against the corrupt leadership of the
A. F. Of L., and from within win the
workers for a revolutionary program